APECS Sweden Conference 2025

Program

Day 1

Moderator: Rebecca Tapper, APECS Sweden
Venue: Rotundan, Umeå University

10:30 Registration

11:00   Welcome and opening remarks
Remarks from the APECS Board, The Swedish Polar Research Secretariat, Arctic Center at Umeå Unversity, UTRI, and Swedish Centre for the Arctic and Antarctic.

Dieter K. Müller, Professor of Human Geography, former Vice-chancellor and Advisor in Arctic initiatives at Umeå University, and former Director and Board member of Arctic Centre at Umeå University.

12:00   Lunch
At restaurant Lingon, right outside the conference venue "Rotundan".

13:00   Panel Discussion: What is a Sustainable Arctic
Five keynote speeches elaborating on “The Sustainable Arctic” from their respective research fields, and a panel discussion on the translational and transformational research in a sustainable Arctic.
Moderators
Rebecca Tapper, APECS Sweden
Paul Schmidt, APECS Sweden
Panelists
Anastasia Emelyanova, Associate Professor in Gerontology, University of Oulu
Emil Olofsson, PhD candidate in political science, Umeå university
Felicia Söderqvist, PhD Candidate in History, Luleå University of Technology
Gesche Blume-Werry, Ecosystem Ecologist, Umeå University
Luisa Ickes, Associate Professor in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Chalmers University of Technology

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88145520340

14:30   Fika
Outside the conference venue "Rotundan"

15:00   Interactive Workshop: Sustainable Development – Challenges and Opportunities
A workshop where you get to interact in a game that focuses on the Agenda 2030. Based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG:s) you get to start project and make important decisions in terms of sustainability. See how the world unfolds based on your decisions! Learn more about the game below.
Facilitators
Alexandra Abrahams
Emma Vogel

18:00   Dinner
Three-course dinner at restaurant Tonka Standgatan at own cost (approximately at SEK 600 per person). Register for the dinner through the conference registration form. 

Day 2

Moderator: Rebecca Tapper, APECS Sweden

08:20   Excursion: Västerbottens museum

Start the day with two guided tours of the museum’s reconstructed Sámi settlements, and Wallmarksgården, where you will see traditional dwellings, tools, and examples of everyday life in the region’s past.

We meet in the entrance of the museum, and then divide into two groups. One group start with the guided tour at the Sámi settlements, and the other start with Wallmarksgården. Then they switch.

After the tours, we walk back to the university together.

10:00   Fika
Outside the conference venue "Rotundan"

10:30   Panel Discussion: A Sustainably Changing Arctic? – Indigenous Perspectives
Keynote speeches elaborating on “The Sustainable Arctic” from their respective research fields, and a panel discussion on indigenous perspectives on the sustainability of past, present and future changes, with a focus on changes in Sapmi.
Moderators
Anngelica Kristoferqvist, APECS Sweden
Freja Fagerholm, APECS Sweden
Marcus Aronsson, APECS Sweden
Panelists
Janne Sirniö, Independent Researcher in Arctic Sustainability
Johan Sandström, Professor of Business Administration, Luleå University of Technology
Lena Maria Nilsson, Doctor of Public Health, Umeå University
Åsa Andersson, Indigenous Sámi and Tornedalian artist and researcher

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88145520340

12:00   Lunch and end of conference
At restaurant Lingon, right outside the conference venue "Rotundan".

The afternoon will consist of the APECS Sweden annual meeting for members.

An invitation to explore the world and yourself

The workshop is based on the interactive 2030 SDGs Game, a multiplayer, in-person, card-based game that simulates taking the “real world” into the year 2030. The game was developed 2016 in Japan.

The rules are simple: players use money and time to start projects to achieve their goals by the end of the game.

One player might have the goal of Acquiring Wealth, so for these players, money is the most important thing. For others, the most important thing might be to Enjoy Leisure, to have the freedom to relax or to spend time doing what they want. Others may want to end poverty, or to protect the environment. Just like in the real world, in this world there are diverse people with different values.

This experience has become a powerful and impactful social phenomenon, earning extensive media coverage and reaching over 400,000 participants. During the conference you will have the unique opportunity as we invite the only facilitators in the Nordics: Alexandra Abrahams and Emma Vogel!
Learn more about the 2030 SDGs Game