CO-CREATE EU Service Grant Roadmap

The CO-CREATE collaborative provided the EU Commission with a Comprehensive Policy Brief as an evidence-based roadmap titled Roadmap to Decolonial Arctic Research. It aims at achieving decolonial innovation in the Arctic research landscape and mainstreaming co-created and collaborative Arctic research conducted in equal partnership by Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers and rightsholders in 1) large-scale projects, 2) calls for projects, 3) proposal and project evaluation, and 4) in the implementation of the European Polar Research Program.

The process of developing the Policy Brief put into practice decolonial and co-creative methods. Steps to developing the roadmap involved thematic analysis of past CO-CREATE work, an online survey about the state of knowledge co-production in Arctic research, interviews with EU representatives, a writing retreat, and an online consultation of the draft with moderated online panel discussions.

EU-PolarNet 2 received funding for this project from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101003766.