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OUR FUTURE IS EXPLORED TODAY<\/span><\/h1>\n

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A CLIMATE INITIATIVE<\/h1>\n

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WITH EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND DOCUMENTARY PURPOSES<\/h2>\n

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Gree<\/span>nlandia is a French initiative designed to bring the voices and knowledge of a polar community in Greenland, at the forefront of climate change, to the heart of this issue.
\nProducing new scientific knowledge over a long period about the Arctic ecosystem where this community survives and understanding its evolution, raising public awareness with documents that record these changes, and finally, providing the youth with the keys to this situation through an educational program born from our Arctic expeditions over the past 10 years, are the mantras of Gree<\/span>nlandia.<\/p>\n

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Next expedition<\/h3>\n

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Duration of the initiative<\/h3>\n

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OUR VISION<\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text]<\/i><\/span>[vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”15″ down=”15″][vc_column_text css=””]In this context of a widespread climate crisis, we observe its consequences a little more each day. The Gree<\/span>nlandia team believes that we now have a duty to reflect on our relationship with the environment for the future.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”10″][vc_column_text css=””]With a growing global population that is increasingly urbanized and disconnected from nature, this complex but crucial question finds valuable sources of information and inspiration in the words and lifestyle of the Ittoqqortoormiit community (Greenland), which remains connected to nature for its survival.<\/p>\n

A survival whose circumstances are now being reshuffled by our collective greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These emissions cause this polar region to warm four times faster than the rest of the world (source: IPCC).[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” thickness=”50″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”parallax” parallax_content_width=”full_width” text_align=”center” full_screen_section_height=”no” background_image=”15879″][vc_column][vc_separator type=”transparent” thickness=”510″][vc_separator type=”transparent” thickness=”110″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” anchor=”OUR-ACTIONS” background_color=”#f2f1f1″ padding_top=”50″ padding_bottom=”14″ z_index=””][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

OUR ACTIONS<\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text]<\/i><\/span>[vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”15″ down=”15″][vc_column_text css=””]To achieve our main objective, Gree<\/span>nlandia is built on three pillars of actions since its creation in January 2015. These three pillars, educational, scientific, and documentary, interact with each other.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”20″][vc_column_text css=””]<\/i><\/span> PEDAGOGY: Inform, educate, and inspire high-quality action<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In response to the legitimate concerns and questions of the younger generations about climate change, Gree<\/span>nlandia’s main objective is to first provide them with concrete and rigorous knowledge through an educational kit composed of various tools produced during all our expeditions in Greenland since 2015.<\/p>\n

Part of these tools have been developed in accordance with current school curricula by teachers and specialists in environmental education and animation within our educational team.<\/p>\n

The contacts established by Gree<\/span>nlandia with the school in the village of Ittoqqortoormiit (Greenland), together with researchers and key witnesses accompanying our initiative alongside our expedition team, allow for the concrete immersion of mainly French middle and high school classes in the theme of climate and its challenges.<\/p>\n

Every year, numerous educational interactions take place in France, along with connections with Greenland, as part of our “ambassador class” offer, which connects two middle school classes from both countries for several years.<\/p>\n

Many interventions also take place exclusively in France by our educational team. This is another offer: the “Gree<\/span>nlandia classes”.
\n(Documentation available upon request via the contact form<\/a>).[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”10″][vc_column_text css=””]<\/i><\/span> SCIENCE: Producing new scientific knowledge about the Arctic ecosystem<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]From the initial reconnaissance missions on-site, the idea of the Gree<\/span>nlandia team was to approach research in this polar zone by replicating and adopting a long-term perspective to encompass the entire ecosystem, through a human-environment observatory approach.<\/p>\n

This observatory, established by Gree<\/span>nlandia with its scientific partners in 2019, draws on the social sciences and humanities (SSH) and earth sciences. It allows for the examination of a range of impacts, causes, and consequences through the lens of climate change affecting this area: its fauna, flora, cryosphere, and human community.<\/p>\n

In addition to elements indicated by meteorology, it is with the population that the first ongoing climate issues were identified, as early as 2015. These issues motivate the general axes explored by Greenlandia and its scientific partners until 2027 within the framework of this temporary observatory.
\n(Documentation available upon request via the contact form<\/a>).[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”10″][vc_column_text css=””]<\/i><\/span> DOCUMENTARY: Keeping records and producing content on ongoing changes<\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Since 2015, the Gree<\/span>nlandia team has been building a collection of photographs and videos focused on climate change. Through the contacts developed over the years with the population, Gree<\/span>nlandia has already conducted several documentary missions with its own teams, journalists, filmmakers, and artists to create a unique documentary archive on land and at sea. This aims to concretely raise public awareness about the reality of ongoing changes.
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OUR EXPEDITIONS<\/h1>\n

[\/vc_column_text]<\/i><\/span>[vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”25″][vc_column_text css=””]From August 2015 to September 2026, the teams of Gree<\/span>nlandia will take turns almost every year in France and Greenland to carry out educational, scientific, and documentary missions on land and sea as determined by our initiative.<\/p>\n

By 2024, 10 expeditions will have been completed in 10 years since the beginning of our initiative. The annual scientific and documentary maritime expedition in Greenland, to achieve our scientific and documentary goals, can only take place in the summer in the Scoresby Fjord, after the sea ice breakup.<\/p>\n

Participatory science missions involving local actors from the village have been successfully conducted since 2023, to complement the study of polar cod, among other initiatives.<\/p>\n

Specific missions with educational, journalistic, or documentary purposes may also complement these annual actions, such as the school expedition involving French and Greenlandic ambassador classes, which takes place every 3 years.<\/p>\n

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350 residents at 70\u00b0 North<\/p>\n

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+3\u00b0C on average per year<\/p>\n

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Paris – Ittoqqortoormiit: 2,725 km<\/p>\n

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Following in the Footsteps of Commandant Charcot<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_column_text]<\/i><\/span>[\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”1″][vc_single_image image=”16686″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” qode_css_animation=””][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”5″][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”10″][vc_column_text css=””]Between 1925 and 1936, Jean-Baptiste Charcot led eight summer scientific missions in the Arctic, in the Scoresby Fjord (Greenland), aboard the Pourquoi-pas?[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”10″][vc_column_text css=””]When Charcot was entrusted with organizing part of the International Polar Year in 1932-1933, he logically chose to carry out this mission in the Scoresby Fjord, using the small village of Ittoqqortoormiit, located at its mouth, as his base camp.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”10″][vc_column_text css=””]In 1936, the disappearance of Commander Charcot and his crew caused national mourning. A pioneer of French polar expeditions and climate change studies, the gentleman of the poles left behind an immense body of unfinished research.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/12″ css=”.vc_custom_1523001872460{margin-left: 50% !important;}” offset=”vc_col-sm-offset-0 vc_hidden-xs”][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”40″]

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<\/p><\/div>[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”11\/12″][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”40″][vc_column_text css=””]Nearly a century later, the Gree<\/span>nlandia team aims to continue and complete Commander Charcot’s work by collecting new samples in Greenland to understand the evolution of climate change in the Scoresby Fjord. Since a series of interviews conducted with the local population starting in 2015, Gree<\/span>nlandia and its scientific partners have been able to determine relevant research directions around climate change affecting this fjord.<\/p>\n

Starting in September 2020, these interviews continued with Semper Arctic and a team from this European research consortium focusing on the resilience of three Arctic populations, including that of Ittoqqortoormiit.<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2022, Gree<\/span>nlandia organized its first scientific maritime expedition with Greenlandic and French researchers to study the impact of climate change through the polar cod, at the center of the fjord’s food chain. They also collected samples along the routes taken by Commander Charcot, in collaboration with the Mus\u00e9um national d’Histoire naturelle in Paris, to compare these new samples with those collected a century ago by Charcot and his team. These missions, which include new research avenues like red algae, will continue at least until September 2026.[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator type=”transparent” up=”10″][vc_column_text css=””]<\/p>\n

Vincent Hilaire\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Founder and Director of Gree<\/span>nlandia<\/p>\n

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OUR PARTNERS<\/h1>\n

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