News

This page will keep you up to date with the project. We share and publish related content, our findings and news in relation to our research.

First online exchange

26/02/24

On the first day after the winter semester break in the Austrian school, students from Uummannaq and Eisenerz came together for their inaugural online exchange. Despite encountering some initial technical difficulties and navigating the time difference between the two countries, the event marked a significant step towards building meaningful connections. In Eisenerz, 11th-grade students, along with their teacher Lisa Abraham, provided insightful introductions to Austria, their hometown, and school life. On the other side of the screen, in Uummannaq, approximately eight students accompanied by school director Tim Arnoldi and a teacher, actively participated in the virtual gathering. Stay tuned for the next online exchange, scheduled soon after Easter!

Workshop II - “Collecting Stories”

11/12/23

Just before Christmas break, the second workshop took place in snowy Eisenerz. Theresa showed the students of the 10th and 11th grade of the BORG Eisenerz important differences between quantitative and qualitative research, and the basics of conducting qualitative interviews. Soon, on the 'Junior Researchers' page, you will find our jointly developed guideline for interviews with the students’ grandparents and parents.

Workshop I - “The Photo-Method”

06/11/23

Last November we had a very successful first workshop in beautifully sunny Eisenerz. Students of the local high school BORG Eisenerz (10th and 11th grade) participated actively in finding out more about Snow2School and, above all, about collecting photos for the project. We shared our ideas and expectations towards a successful project, and together learned about different ways to study snow and snow changes. In the picture you can see junior researchers from Eisenerz discussing with each other what they thought they would be able to learn from participating in the project. Some of them already had collected photos and brought them to class. Sharing the stories behind these photographs and talking over the distinctive markers for determining snow heights was very insightful for everybody including us workshop instructors, Theresa and Jorrit. In the second part of the two-hour workshop, Jorrit also took us on a small journey to Greenland showing videos, pictures, and maps – but: everybody is very excited to meet the junior researchers in Uummannaq very soon through our first online exchange in 2024.

**Presenting Snow2School at GASCA in Munich**
10/10/2023
This July, Sophie Elixhauser (senior researcher, Snow2School) gave a presentation at the **conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GASCA)** in Munich. In a workshop about “Social and Cultural Anthropology as “Citizen Science: Potential and limits” (Workshop 42), she introduced the Snow2School project and reflected on its Citizen Science (CS) approach. The talk was entitled “The *Snow2School* project in Greenland and Austria: reflections about interdisciplinary ‘Citizen Science’”. After some background to the project, she spoke about some methodological challenges of CS, its definition which appears rather vague in an anthropological context, CS and co-creation of knowledge, and about its democratic/participatory qualities. It was a great workshop with various other interesting presentations. Theresa Gusenleitner, PhD student in Snow2Rain, was also part of the audience and participated actively.

**Snow2School in Eisenerz!**
23/05/2023
We finally made it to Eisenerz and had a great project introduction at the BORG Eisenerz. We are happy to have met our future junior researchers from the Austrian part of Snow2School!

**Project introduction in Uummannaq!**
14/04/2023
Many thanks to Jakob Abermann for introducing Snow2School in the school in Greenland! We joined online and got to know the junior researchers from Uummannaq.

Website launched!

22/03/2023

We are happy to have finally launched our website for the project Snow2School.

04/04/2023 (update)

We have now also launched the Danish version of the website. We are currently still working on a Greenlandic translation.