Boazu project

FUNDERS & DONOR AGENCIES

The French Polar Research Institute (IPEV) has provided funding for the TUKTU and BOAZU project from the outset: http://www.institut-polaire.fr/language/en/. IPEV has been supporting both project from the very beginning in 2008.  His support has been decisive to the TUKTU and BOAZU projects 
 

Laureate of the Laboratory for Excellence project (LabEx) in the program « Investment in the future », the DRIIHM LabEx, Device for Interdisciplinary Research on human-environments Interactions, aggregate 13 human-environments observatories (OHM in french). Their network (ROHM in french) is a CNRS-INEE tool since 2007. This LabEx was set up for 8 years (February 2012-December 2019) with a € 6.5 million budget and now, for another five years (2020-2024).http://www.driihm.fr/. The Labex through the OHMI Nunavik supported several of the Tuktu students who work as a team in bot communities; in Kagiqsujuaq (Nunavik) and Baker Lake (Nunavut). 

ELOKA fosters collaboration between resident Arctic experts and visiting researchers to facilitate the collection, preservation, exchange, and use of local observations and Indigenous knowledge of the Arctic. ELOKA provides data management and user support to Indigenous communities to ensure their data and knowledge are managed, visualized, and shared in an ethical manner in order to work toward information and data sovereignty for Arctic residents. https://eloka-arctic.org/ 

Nunavik Human–Environment Observatory (OHMi Nunavik): provides data management and user support to Indigenous communities to ensure their data and knowledge are managed, visualized, and shared in an ethical manner in order to work toward information and data sovereignty for Arctic residents.

Participatory Action Research & Citizen Science Research Group (GDR PARCS):  https://websie.cefe.cnrs.fr/gdrparcs/gdr-parcs/
Le GDR PARCS est un réseau réunissant des acteurs de diverses origines (académiques, Indépendants, associatifs…) et discipline (sciences de la vie et de la terre, science sociale…) oeuvrant à développer des recherches participatives, et souhaitant mieux comprendre comment la RAP et les sciences citoyennes évoluent, quelle place elles ont dans la recherche française aujourd’hui et comment elles peuvent influencer la recherche de demain. 
 
All the TUKTU and BOAZU master students have been trained in Participatory Action Research before going to the field and spendng time in both villages. The all used the same PAR techniques developed by Chevalier and Buckles (www.sas2.net). 
 
The Centre for Functional and Evolutionary Ecology (CEFE), is a National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) research lab in Ecology. https://www.cefe.cnrs.fr/en/The CEFE is currently the largest French research center in Ecology and Evolutionary Ecology. Their Mission: perform independent, fundamental scientific research on the dynamics of biodiversity, planetary environmental change, and sustainable development. The links between society and ecology is a theme of increasing importance in oour research. The CEFE is currently hosting Sylvie Blangy and managing the BOAZU project budget.