Invitation to the Nordic Tipping Week
Event in a nutshell
- Where: Helsinki and Rovaniemi
- When: 21-23.10.2025 in Helsinki and 24.10.2025 in Rovaniemi
- Purpose: Assess the direct and indirect impacts of AMOC tipping points on the Nordic region, and the societal adaptation strategies.
- Costs: The event is free, with food and lodging covered for all participants, and travel support is available for early career scientists and those from lower-income countries. We will also cover the Helsinki-Rovaniemi train for those who will participate in both parts of the event (limited availability).
- Deadlines: Abstract submission and registration by 22.8.2025
Registration & Abstract submission:
Introduction
In response to the Open Letter to the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Council is funding a workshop and a report on the direct and indirect impacts of AMOC tipping points on the Nordic region. The first part of the event will take place in Helsinki and focus on the interdisciplinary science of AMOC tipping and its broad impacts, whereas the second part will take place in Rovaniemi and focus on local knowledge, adaptive capacity of northern livelihoods and knowledge and skills through stakeholder interaction. The Rovaniemi event will be carried out as a Heritage Futures workshop in collaboration with University of Turku, Futures Research Center.
The workshop will discuss a wide range of topics and we welcome contributions from natural sciences through economics to social sciences and beyond. The workshop will focus on group work, but will also welcome poster contributions (see the schedule below). The workshop will produce the draft outline for a report on direct and indirect impacts of AMOC tipping points on the Nordic region and the societal adaptation strategies. The report will be coordinated by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, and the workshop participants are welcomed to contribute to it. The workshop and the report is done in coordination with JPI Oceans/JPI Climate and the Nordic Tipping Week will feed information into a wider report on AMOC tipping risk that the JPI Oceans/JPI Climate are sponsoring. We hope to see many of you at the workshop in October!
Scientific Advisory Board
Finland: Aleksi Nummelin and Timo Vihma, Finnish Meteorological Institute; Hanna
Lappalainen and Petteri Uotila, University of Helsinki; Sirpa Rasmus, University of Lapland
Norway: Ada Gjermundsen, University of Oslo
Iceland: Áslaug Geirsdóttir, University of Iceland
Denmark: Chuncheng Guo, Danish Meteorological Institute
Faroe Islands: Hjálmar Hátun, The Faroe Marine Research Institute
Sweden: Juan Rocha and Laura Pereira, Stockholm University