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Group photo of the nine meeting participators in front of a light blue, wooden building with a lot of windows. Snow on the ground and on the house roof.
Partner Meeting in Hiiumaa (09.03.2023)
After dedicating most of the last six months of the project to conducting interviews, the CULTIVATE project partners finally met in person, this time on the Hiiumaa island in the West Estonian Archipelago – almost exactly a year since the first in-person meeting in Trebon in March 2022.
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Day Zero: Pathways to participatory research and knowledge co-production: notes from the ‘field’ (07.02.2023)
Join members of the UNESCO Chair Group and the Centre for Sustainable Area Management (CeSAM) for a workshop on participatory research during Day Zero, February 8th 2023.
To turkledde personer står i vannkanten med ryggen til, og ser utover fjorden. Fyrtårn i bakgrunnen.
11 vandreintervjuer fra Nordhordland UNESCO Biosfæreområde (20.12.2022)
Gjennom høsten 2022 har UNESCO Chair Inger Måren gjennomført vandreintervjuer med innbyggere i Nordhordland som en del av EU-prosjektet CULTIVATE (Co-creating cultural narratives for sustainable rural development) - ett intervju fra hver av de 11 opprinnelige kommunene i Nordhordland UNESCO biosfæreområde. Sentralt i disse intervjuene står intervjuobjektenes forhold til landskap og kulturarv i... Read more
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The UNESCO Chair group contributes to COP15 discussions on the Convention on Biological Diversity (19.12.2022)
As the negotiations in Montreal draw to a close, headlines are announcing the big Targets agreed to by nearly 200 countries pledging to put a stop to biodiversity loss.
Mann med skjegg iført caps og allværsjakke
Brakstad i gamle Meland kommune (19.12.2022)
Heidi Mongstad stående på en kjerrevei på beitemark. Åser med granskog i bakgrunnen
Solendfjellet på Manger i gamle Radøy kommune (19.12.2022)
Mikal Krossøy stående foran en beitemark med sauer i bakgrunnen
Krossøy i Austrheim kommune (19.12.2022)
Erling Kleiveland i blå regnjakke stående foran en gammel potetkjeller
Kleiveland i Osterøy kommune (19.12.2022)
Lennart Skog
Skogsøy i gamle Øygarden kommune (19.12.2022)
Jostein Husa standing in heathland surrounded by sheep.
Fedje kommune (19.12.2022)
Anne Lise Mastervik på vei opp trappene til en laksegilje.
Stamnes og Straume i Vaksdal kommune (19.12.2022)
Åshild Øvre-Helland
Tverrdalsstølen i Modalen kommune (16.12.2022)
Arnold Matre stading outside with snowy mountains in the background
Matredal i Masfjorden kommune (16.12.2022)
Normann Grimen.
Grimen på Byrknesøy i Gulen kommune (16.12.2022)
Man standing next to old dry stone walls in a forest.
Hopsdal i gamle Lindås kommune (16.12.2022)
Screenshot showing participants of the digital meeting
First Nordic UNESCO Chair Meeting (23.11.2022)
November 17 2022 the first ever Nordic UNESCO Chair meeting was held. 11 chairholders met over Teams, representing four different countries: Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland.
Overview photo of Kristianstad vattenrike. Partly flooded wetlands. Water with water lilly leaves in the front, surorunded by wetlands with overgrown with sedges and willow. City of Kristianstad in the background.
Visiting Vattenriket BR in Southern Sweden (28.09.2022)
The BIOSPHERE project aims to strengthen social-ecological resilience in peri-urban and rural Norway, and in this project members of the UNESCO Chair group at UiB work together with partners from Nordhordland Biosphere Reserve and Alver municipality. The partners recently visited Kristianstad Vattenrike, Sweden's oldest biosphere reserve, to learn from their experiences of collaboration between... Read more
Hildegunn Opdal, Katja Malmborg, Kari E. Natland og Alicia Barraclogh
EuroMAB 2022 in Nockberge Biosphere park, Austria (26.09.2022)
Members of the UNESCO Chair team and representatives from Nordhordland Biosphere Reserve recently participated in the EuroMAB 2022 conference - "Tying cultures. Crossboarder cooperation between societies and generations."

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