The evaluation panel highlights in particular the research quality and collaboration that has provided new knowledge and understanding of the marine environment in our northernmost sea areas.
Important and successful work
– They also highlight the work of recruiting a new generation of polar researchers as both important and successful. Today, 80 younger researchers in various stages of the researcher education or careers are involved in the Nansen Legacy. In the next phase of this project, the application of knowledge and understanding will be important, says project manager, Professor Marit Reigstad at the Department of Arctic and Marine Biology at UiT.
She is very pleased that the project has received a thorough and very good evaluation so far:
– That we receive praise for both collaboration, research and recruitment mean that we are on the right track and that we deliver, even in light of the challenges with Covid limitations. We have also received good and constructive input to the work in our second phase to ensure that the knowledge can be used well.
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Good feedback provided by an international expert panel to Nansen Legacy midway through the project. Among other things, the research quality and collaboration have contributed to new knowledge about the environment in the northern sea areas. Photo: Andreas Wolden (IMR), spring cruise 2021
She is very pleased that the project has received a thorough and very good evaluation so far:
– That we receive praise for both collaboration, research and recruitment mean that we are on the right track and that we deliver, even in light of the challenges with Covid limitations. We have also received good and constructive input to the work in our second phase to ensure that the knowledge can be used well.
One of Norway’s most comprehensive research projects
The Nansen Legacy is one of the largest and most comprehensive research projects in Norway ever. It is funded by the Research Council of Norway, the Ministry of Education and Research and the participating institutions. The mid-term evaluation has been carried out by the international expert panel on behalf of the Research Council of Norway.
SATISFIED: Project leader, Professor Marit Reigstad at the Department of Arctic and Marine Biology at UiT.
Photo: Magne Welle, MET
The project is an innovative collaboration between ten of the Norwegian institutions with the most extensive expertise in Arctic marine research and involves more than 230 researchers. The overall goal is to understand the changes in the climate and ecosystem in the northernmost region of the Barents Sea with winter ice cover. The knowledge will be an important baseline for a sustainable management of future activities in these areas.
