Finished Projects
French research Project (2021-2023) for enhancing the value of the academic heritage of the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.
The project's principal goal was the creation of a common methodology for enhancing the value of scientific archives and equipment, as well as the transfer of scientific knowledge. It concerned 3 UVSQ collections: Jean Malaurie's Arctic collections which he has donated to the Institute of Oceanography/Prince Albert I of Monaco Foundation, donation with UVSQ's Malaurie Institute accompanies as far as its scientific valorisation is concerned; the scientific collections of the LATMOS laboratory (UVSQ) and the historical collections of the LAAB Laboratory (Anthropology, Archaeology, Biology Laboratory) in association with the Quai Branly Museum.
Interdisciplinary research project (2011-2016) on climate change and its perception in Greenland financed by the French National Research Funding Agency (ANR); scientific coordinator: Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Director of Research at the French National Centre for Research (CNRS), research laboratory for climate and environment sciences (LSCE/UVSQ); the CEARC team directed by Jan Borm contributes research on the perception of climate change in the archives of the Moravian Brotherhood, Herrnhut, Germany (CEARC budget: € 60 000) ; several research trips to Herrnhut + two workshops for Phds in Greenland (Ummannaq Polar Institute, 2012; National Archives of Greenland, Nuuk, October 20-21, 2015)
Cultural and Natural Heritage in Arctic and Sub-Antarctic Regions for a Cross-, Cultural and Sustainable Valorisation Process and Tourism Development: Siberia, Lapland and Patagonia (2013-2017)
FP7-Marie-Curie-IRSES-People; principal investigator: Prof. Dr. Jan Borm (IECI/UVSQ), budget: € 177 000; network of 5 universities: UVSQ, Federal University of the North-East of Russia at Yakutsk, Arctic Centre/University of Lapland at Rovaniemi (Finland), Kaunas Technological University (Lithuania) und The University of Southern Patagonia (Argentina).
Exploitation of Research results in School practice (2016-2018)
ERASMUS+ agreement n° 2-[2015-1-PL01-KA201-016622], project piloted by the Institute of Geophysics/Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, UVSQ contributes 10 learning packages for schools, (UVSQ budget € 80 665)
Innovative educational program attracting young people to natural sciences and polar research (2016-2019)
H2020-SEAC-2015-1 (contract no 710240), project piloted by the Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Science (IGF-PAS), scientific coordinator UVSQ: Pr. J. Borm, budget 1 798 000 € (budget UVSQ 313 125 €); UVSQ organised the project’s final conference in Paris in 2019, participants included Mrs Ségolène Royale, French Ambassador of the Poles and Mr. Harri Mäki-Reinikka, Ambassador of Finland’s Arctic policies. See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=F-Rqy0ss4og&list=PLVsLO64vwiRkAfZeeUH9l2VNzpla--Zsb&index=7&t=0s
From Nunavik to Iceland: Climate, Humans and Culture through Time across the Coastal (Sub) Arctic North Atlantic, Belmont Forum, 2020-23, 632 000 €, PI Anne de Vernal (UQAM, Montreal, Canada).
The overarching goal of NICH-Arctic is to explore and assess the resilience and vulnerability of the environment in a subpolar latitudinal zone marked by large amplitude climate and sea-ice variations. This project combines geological, historical, instrumental records and narrative information from the cultural practices and the representations of Nordic environments through the literature. NICH-Arctic proposes investigations of coastal regions where climate conditions and sea ice play a vital role in accessibility through navigation and livelihood of the cultural communities.
From West to East, the study regions include the Nunavik in northern Québec, Labrador, southwest Greenland and northern Iceland. The succession of different cultures, including Paleo-Eskimo (Saqqaq, Pre-Dorset and Dorset) and Neo-Eskimo (Inuit), in Nunavik, Labrador and Greenland, and the Norse settlers, in Iceland and Greenland, illustrates a wide range of adaptative strategies to harsh weather conditions, climatic variations, ocean and sea-ice instabilities and ecological stresses since early migrations via Alaska about 4500 years ago and the Nordic Seas in the 9th to 10th centuries.
The recent evolution of these regions is not well documented from instrumental data, due to the low density of recording stations and the shortness of records, when available. Disciplinary knowledge has been developed, but with little transdisciplinary exchanges and limited communication between scientists and stakeholders. Here, NICH-Arctic takes advantage of the large array of disciplinary expertise of the team members, added to their knowledge of the research areas, to develop a truly integrated multidisciplinary understanding of climate, habitat, archeology and culture relations, from past to on-going changes in the Arctic and subarctic Atlantic realm.
