Mon projet nordique/My Northern Project Competition winners 2023

Najaaraq Demant-Poort, a PhD Student at Ilisimatusarfik University of Greenland and her presentation: Understanding Political, Institutional and Social Trust in the Post-Colonial Institutional Setting of an Indigenous Society: The Case of Greenland became the audience's favourite. Jury's decison was unanimous with audience vote and they also wanted to recognize David Dumas a MSc Student from Université Laval, Canada and his presentation on Optimization of Photovoltaic Systems to Decarbonize Residential Buildings in Nunavik.

Since 2017, the two partners have been organizing a competition for doctoral and master students to reward them for their efforts in popularizing science. While promoting the transfer of knowledge and the popularization of science and offering an unprecedented academic experience to finalists, the competition aims each year to strengthen the ties between the Institut nordique du Québec and UArctic.

In 2023 the competition was again very successful, and audience got to hear inspiring talks from the following students:

Alex Taitt, PhD Student, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA: Digital Heritage Preservation with a Focus on Indigenous Communities of Northwest Alaska

Pénélope Blackburn-Desbiens, PhD Student, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada: Ice: an unsuspected refuge of microbial organisms?

Rami Noureddine, PhD Student, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway: Sustainable Tourism in the Arctic

Karel Cadoret, MSc Student, Université Laval, Canada: Microbial Oases and Antibiotics in Ice Deserts

Santeri Halonen, Doctoral Researcher, University of Oulu, Finland: Entrepreneurial Resilience Especially in the Micro-Entrepreneurial Context

Alice Cavalerie, MSc Student, Université Laval, Canada: Frosty Windows, Cozy Homes: Decoding Behaviors in Northern Housing

Anne Schäfer, PhD Student, Nord University, Norway: The Power of Making a Home for Oneself: Sámi Homemaking Practices and Their Significance for Indigenous Survivance

David Dumas, MSc Student, Université Laval, Canada: Optimization of Photovoltaic Systems to Decarbonize Residential Buildings in Nunavik.

Mille Bianco Schiermacher, PhD Student, Ilisimatusarfik University of Greenland, Denmark: Structural Discrimination Entails Homelessness Among Greenlanders in Denmark

Margaux Rougier, MSc Student, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Canada: Transatlantic flight above the ice bridges of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Najaaraq Demant-Poort, PhD Student, Ilisimatusarfik University of Greenland: Understanding Political, Institutional and Social Trust in the Post-Colonial Institutional Setting of an Indigenous Society: The Case of Greenland

Northern project aims to organize an international science popularization contest involving students from Quebec and Scandinavia. The partners in this project are the Institut nordique du Québec and the University of the Arctic (UArctic) network consisting of partners from all Nordic countries and circumpolar regions.