CAP-SHARE

Between 2024-2025, work package 1 consists of four recorded (2-3 hour) online workshops that are published online. Each online workshop will have current or ongoing examples of projects who have successful experience in each theme. Based on the theme of each workshop, a draft section of the strategy will be developed for the implementation of local and international community development activities in work package 2.

Between 2025-2026 a series of local in-person workshops will be organized by each main partner and their networks. Creating bridges between communities, scientists, and policymakers means creating spaces for dialogue. Here, the focus is on museums and youth organizations. Museums have great potential as intermediaries between scientists, policymakers, and local communities to create a dialogue for capacity sharing and understanding. Furthermore, youth organizations have a history of sharing capacity for democratic civic engagement among youth and elders.

 
As part of this work package, the Arctic Frontiers and Nordnorsk vitensenter (NNV) will conduct the annual Science for Schools program. Scientists will connect with students in ‘Inspiration Days’, an out-of-classroom learning experience. This will be run as a pilot program on a small scale for schools in Iceland and Finland in collaboration with NMSI and the LUMA center.
 
Work package 2 aims to pull our partner's knowledge, skills, and experiences together to collaborate on pilot actions with local communities in an international setting. This approach will contribute to community development through the promotion of local museums, science centers, NGOs, and nonprofit youth organizations as spaces for exchange of knowledge and resources; as well as youth engagement with the potential to build youth connection to place. Here the pilot model is linked with local and international actions that build capacity for sustainable development and protection of biodiversity.
 

Further local workshops, meetings, and a webinar focusing on the Model for Capacity Sharing and a panel at the 2027 Arctic Frontiers conference. The main aim for this work package is to ensure that the Model for Capacity Sharing will be incorporated by municipalities and regional stakeholders beyond our partnerships, with a wider goal to push for solutions to be used at regional and national level. The project will be the focus of a panel at the 2027 Arctic Frontiers conference, and workshops and meetings will be organized in Iceland, Finland, and Norway directly with scientists, communities, municipalities and policymakers. ​

All CAP-SHARE project partners are part of the YAN Steering Committee; the Lead Partner for CAP-SHARE is the Icelandic Museum of Natural History, with Project Partners being Arctic Frontiers in Norway and the University of Lapland in Finland. They will collaborate with other members of the Steering Committee throughout the project.