Biodiversity loss, changes in snow and ice thickness, and other unpredictable processes associated with the climate change challenge Sámi livelihoods and culture. Also other various stressors, such as competing land use by industrial, extractive and infrastructure development, threaten the Sámi future. The Interreg Aurora funded project MÁHTUT – Sámi knowledge and practices in the era of the green transition supports, promotes and preserves traditional Sámi subsistence skills, knowledge and practices among Sámi communities in different parts of Sápmi. MÁHTUT aims to raise awareness of their importance and relevance in policy making in the era of green transition and focuses on implementing especially Sámi ideas of circularity and food sovereignty through its work packages. Sámi skills and knowledge have the capacity to advance grass-root green transition, ecological, economic and social sustainability and to strengthen Sámi circular economy. The project will improve inter-generational and cross-regional transfer of the best practices of Sámi subsistence skills and knowledge. The project also addresses Indigenous rights of the Sámi and other legal aspects related to Sámi skills, knowledge and traditions.
More information is available on the project website
Contact: Sanna Valkonen, Project Manager, Lapin yliopisto – sanna.valkonen@ulapland.fi
