ICEBERG.
Innovative Community Engagement for Building Effective Resilience and Arctic Ocean Pollution-control Governance in the Context of Climate Change.
ABOUT THE PROJECT.
Climate change and human activities have multifaceted and complex effects on land and ocean in the Arctic, posing significant threats to the ecosystem and human health. From 2024-2026, the ICEBERG project will study the interconnected effects of human-induced pollution and climate stressors on the Arctic ocean-land interface focusing on three regional case studies: southern Greenland, western Svalbard and northern Iceland.
The project has a two-fold aim:
1) to assess sources, types, distributions, and impacts of pollution in combination with climate-induced stressors on ecosystems and communities in the European Arctic in the European Arctic’s land-ocean continuum using a One Health approach and
2) to co-design local pollution- control strategies, which includes both mitigation (reducing pollution) and adaptation (reducing vulnerability to pollution) championing multi-stakeholder and gender-based approaches.
ICEBERG’s results will create novel governance approaches for pollution-control in the Arctic ocean-land continuum at multiple scales.
WoA is leading WP4 and is the Consortium’s dedicated project partner for the integration of a gender-dimension into its various WPs.
PARTNERS.
Lead Coordinator: Oulun yliopisto, Finland
Associação para o desenvolvimento do Atlantic International Research Centre, Portugal
Barcelona Supercomputing Center Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, Spain
Fundacja forScience, Poland
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel (GEOMAR), Germany
Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam Deutsches Geoforschungszentrum – GFZ, Germany
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ, Germany
Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement, France
Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, Italy
Kaskas Media Oy, Finland
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
Lapin yliopisto, Finland
École Nationale Vétérinaire, Agroalimentaire et de l’Alimentation Nantes Atlantique, France
Scidrones Texnovlastos Ike, Greece
Stofnun Vilhjálms Stefánssonar, Iceland
Women of the Arctic Ry, Finland
PROJECT LEAD COORDINATOR
Prof. Thora Herrmann
University of Oulu
thora.herrmann@oulu.fi
PROJECT MANAGER
Dr Élise Lépy
University of Oulu
elise.lepy@oulu.fi
COMMUNICATIONS
Paavo Antikainen
Kaskas
paavo.antikainen@kaskas.fi
ICEBERG has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe Research and innovation funding programme under grant agreement No 101135130