The Norwegian National Park Jotunheimen is home to Norway’s highest mountains, glaciers and permafrost. It is also the site of Norway’s highest-altitude interdisciplinary research arena for nature and climate, through the project Fjellviten.
At Juvflye, research groups within the Fjellviten project work together to better understand the mountains and how they have been, are, and will be affected by climate change. The project brings together the Norwegian Mountain Centre and Klimapark 2469, along with leading research institutions – including the Department of Geosciences at the University of Oslo – to develop “the world’s most important classroom” using the high mountains as a knowledge arena.
High mountains effected by climate changes
The main goal of the Fjellviten project is to communicate and transfer knowledge about climate and environmental changes in the high mountains through innovative dissemination technologies.
The primary target group for Fjellviten’s outreach activities is high school students, along with young people and of course others interested in climate change in the North and in the mountains in Norway.
Learn more about the project: www.norskfjellsenter.no
The new short movie is available on YouTube with English subtitles:
Watch the movie on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-CsLwYCI3o
Film and photography: Frys Film AS @FRYSFILM | Graphics: Space & Time
Fjellviten – contributors and partners
Several partners work together and contribute to the Fjellviten project:
Norwegian Mountain Centre; Climate Park 2469; Innlandet County Council; Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA); Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); Natural History Museum; University of Oslo/Department of Geosciences; Norwegian Meteorological Institute; Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE); University of Bergen; Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research.
The Fjellviten project is funded by the Sparebank Foundation DNB, Norway.