Norwegian researcher: one-size-fits-all policies are failing small Arctic communities

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Norwegian researcher: one-size-fits-all policies are failing small Arctic communities  Small communities across Europe’s Arctic are facing a crisis: remote locations like Norway’s Træna archipelago are losing residents faster than they can replace them.  In partnership with the European Commission  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/11/25/norwegian-researcher-one-size-fits-all-policies-are-failing-small-arctic-communities  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00My name is Maiken Bjørkan and I'm a research professor at Norland Research Institute.

00:05I work with coastal communities in many different projects.

00:14Empower us is about how we can empower coastal communities to face all the changes.

00:23They are the ones experiencing a lot of the challenges

00:26but sometimes it feels as if the solutions are made more for different contexts

00:33such as big cities or less peripheral regions.

00:38They want to live here. This is the place that they have.

00:41They are living their best life.

00:43But all the national programs or international plans such as the Sustainable Development Goals and so on,

00:51even if they have the best intentions, sometimes when you look at it from a local level,

00:55the way that it's put to work, it doesn't really work here.

01:02Transport is a big challenge. There's a lot of cancellations, the weather is harsh and so on.

01:08If you can't get to your hospital appointment, if you can't go and see your family elsewhere

01:13or be connected to the mainland, then you're isolated and then you can't stay here.

01:18There's threats to closing the schools. People are moving away exactly because when you don't have a school,

01:27you won't have new families moving here. If you don't have a school or kindergarten for your kids,

01:31this isn't seen as a viable place to live your life.

01:35So for the people living here, these are like the blood veins that kind of make you connected to the rest of society.

01:42And you need that in order to be able to stay here.

01:46And you have to stay here.

01:48I am usually managed to stay here, but when you get minerals and nicht,

01:50stay here.

01:51JENNIN'

01:54Toして it more than $52

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