Overall Activities

 

The network will actively use and combine the following communication and information tools:

 

  1. Joint research workshops/conferences
  2. Digital communication platforms
  3. International working groups /joint publications
  4. Close connections to Arctic stakeholders (i.e Arctic Monitoring Assessment Programme (AMAP) and the International Arctic Science Committee (IASC), the Arctic Economic council, The Sustainable Development Working Group of the Arctic Council, Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat - IPS, The Saami Council and other relevant entities).
  5. Joint Academic educational program development
  6. Exchange program for Master/Ph.D students, support of Master/Ph.D theses
  7. Collaboration/sharing data archives

 

The RAMWA team currently consisting of 16 experts from 13 institutions and 8 countries agreed recently to produce a position paper on requirements for sustainable waste handling in Arctic mining. The planned document is aiming at providing expert guidance to decision maker for planning and executing sustainable frameworks for regulation and licencing.

The initial idea to develop the TN RAMWA collaboration was first discussed during a dedicated workshop on Bioremediation of mine waste in the Arctic arranged by UArctic and Yukon University, Whitehorse, Canada.