Content and Methodology
Content
The focus area of Resilience and Disaster Preparedness investigates the links between a wide range of crises and health, with particular emphasis on resilience as a means to protect health and well-being before, during, and after disruptive events. It examines how individuals, communities, healthcare systems, and societies can build resilience in response to both acute and long-term global health threats.
Over two days in the Arctic, we will utilise this approach to examine a diverse range of crises, including but not limited to: geopolitical conflicts, climate-related disasters, cybersecurity threats, resource scarcity, leadership in times of crisis, pandemics, displacement, and supply chain disruptions. In doing so, we will also analyse their implications for human and ecological health, alongside wider societal and political systems.
Preliminary Schedule
Thursday, 18 June
- 09:00–09:30: Registration with light refreshments
- 09:30–10:00: Welcome and presentation of programme, framework, and workshop methodology
- 10:00–12:30: Formal Plenary Session
- 12:30–14:00: Lunch
- 14:00–16:00: Workshops
- Track 1: Geopolitics in the North: Space, Oceans, and Resilient Societies
- Track 2: Health Preparedness in Peacetime, Crisis, and War
- Track 3: Security, Power Supply, and Digital Infrastructure
- 16:30–17:30: Walk in Tromsø Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden (Botanisk hage i Tromsø
**16:30–17:30**: Walk in Tromsø Arctic-Alpine Botanical Garden (Botanisk hage i Tromsø | UiT)
- 19:00–21:00: Conference Dinner – to be updated
Friday, 19 June
- 09:00–10:30: Workshops continue – summary and conclusions
- Track 1: Geopolitics in the North: Space, Oceans, and Resilient Societies
- Track 2: Health Preparedness in Peacetime, Crisis, and War
- Track 3: Security, Power Supply, and Digital Infrastructure
- 11:00–13:00: Joint presentation of conclusions and discussion on future forms of collaboration
- 13:00–14:00: Lunch
- 14:00–15:00: Wrap-up and the way forward
Note: This is a preliminary schedule and will be updated with more detailed information regarding speakers and track leaders.
Workshop Series and Focus Areas
This co-creation workshop is part of a workshop series based on the EUGLOH Focus Areas:
- Health in Living Contexts: Urban and Rural Health
- Sustainability and Biodiversity
- Resilience and Disaster Preparedness
- Digital Health, AI, and Medical Technology
These Focus Areas are built on EUGLOH’s shared understanding of global health as a highly interdisciplinary concept. From the alliance’s perspective, addressing global health challenges requires concerted action and development in education, research, innovation, and service to society, directed at equitable health for humans and for the ecosystems in which they live. This concept of global health addresses all subject areas – including but not limited to human and veterinary medicine, natural sciences, life sciences, data sciences, engineering, arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Please note: Registering for this workshop on Resilience and Disaster Preparedness does not automatically enrol you in the other workshops in the series. You are welcome to participate even if you have not attended any of the previous sessions.
Methodology
This workshop will adopt a collaborative and creative approach with a challenge-oriented framing (problem-based learning), using participatory tools in a sandpit-like format – an intensive, facilitated idea lab that brings together participants from diverse disciplines.
The methodology will include components from design thinking, hackathons, innovation sprints, and similar frameworks.
