Call for nominations: 2025 Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award
UArctic and the Arctic Circle are pleased to open the call for nominations for the 2025 Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award. The Award includes a 100,000 euro grant to a promising project that addresses climate change through concrete actions and plans. The call is open until April 30, 2025.
The Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award provides high-level recognition for innovative ideas that aspire to transform knowledge into action to help address the causes and impacts of climate change in the Arctic. This award is intended to bring together potential concepts preventing, mitigating, adapting, and reversing Arctic climate change. The cohort of award recipients will form a powerful group of leaders whose ideas will be fostered to develop and implement meaningful solutions and projects to address Arctic climate change.
The recipient(s) will be announced at the Arctic Circle Assembly in October in Reykjavík, Iceland followed by a special reception. 100,000 Euro of unrestricted funds are provided to the awardee to help facilitate the development of ideas and increase impact through outreach, engagement and communication.
Call for Nominations
Nominations should be submitted by April 30, 2025.
The goal is to further the development of new ideas that could contribute materially to preventing, mitigating, adapting, and reversing the effects of climate change in the Arctic.
Nominees should propose creative ideas that are action- and results-oriented and at an early stage of development. These ideas should nevertheless be grounded in academic research and scholarship, while also, where appropriate, giving due regard to the knowledge practices of Arctic residents, including Indigenous peoples. Nominations should describe an action that addresses the causes or impacts of climate change on the Arctic region. Ideas can be broad in scope, or geared toward local issues but could have results scalable to the entire Arctic region, and potentially beyond. We are looking for bright new ideas from people/groups with a demonstrable drive to achieve change in the near future.
The call for nominations is inclusive and open to all. Nominations can come from individuals or small groups, including community groups and organizations. Both self-nominations and nominations from others on behalf of the idea are accepted. In addition to established experts, emerging and mid-career professionals, Indigenous knowledge holders, and teams with established relationships with Arctic and Indigenous peoples are encouraged to apply with ideas.
Read the full call and nomination requirements on the Award pages
For inspiration, take a look at the projects that have previously won the award and those that have been shortlisted.
If you have any questions, please contact aaaa@uarctic.org.
The Frederik Paulsen Arctic Academic Action Award is a joint activity of UArctic and the Arctic Circle. The award is linked to the name of Frederik Paulsen who for decades has been a strong promoter of Arctic and Antarctic research and cooperation, as well as a patron and supporter of many Arctic endeavors which have facilitated cooperation between experts and scientists from many nations. His support for the Arctic Circle and UArctic is also a contribution to our success.
Arctic Circle is the largest network of international dialogue and cooperation on the future of the Arctic and our planet. It is an open democratic platform with participation from governments, organizations, corporations, universities, think tanks, environmental associations, Indigenous communities, concerned citizens, and others. It is nonprofit and nonpartisan.
UArctic is a network of almost 200 universities, colleges, research institutes, and other organizations concerned with education and research in and about the Arctic.