台灣將邁入超高齡社會，發展高品質、彰顯社會公平且著眼永續的老年照護體系非常迫切。本研究提供原住民族、性別和高齡在照顧情境中交織的理論和方法論洞見，並以原住民族社會生態連動的全局思維，回應迫切的社會需求。除了推進科學卓越，更透過與芬蘭薩米族經驗對照，將台灣納入全球原住民族研究討論中，接軌轉型正義、永續、氣候變遷、生物多樣性和全球福祉等議題。本研究透過創新和跨領域的研究方式，豐富性別主流化與族群主流化的政策實踐，特別關於原住民文化健
康福祉的社會福利政策制定，可形成新的法案、更進一步實質上改變政策。影響不侷限學術領域，更進一步提供原住民族知識為本與現代知識共構的基礎，回應《促進轉型正義條例》、《原住民族健康法》以及《消除對婦女一切形式歧視公約》中台灣轉型的需求。
The BIRGEJUPMI project aims to strengthen community engagement and relational environmental decision-making in Arctic coastal regions by bringing together diverse knowledge systems (Indigenous, Western, and local), grounded in a holistic, ethical, and equitable community-based approach to research with strong Indigenous leadership. Empowering communities to use and develop their own knowledge is vital for fostering resilience, cultural preservation, socio-ecological well-being, and mobilizes coastal communities to address local challenges effectively while promoting social cohesion. To this end, BIRGEJUPMI focuses on three Arctic areas: western Sápmi, northern Sápmi, and Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), following three objectives: 1) document, revitalize, and integrate Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge-informed practices connected to marine and coastal resources management and conservation in fjord socio-ecosystems, and inform decision-making processes for coastal management and governance models rooted in Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK); 2) assess the environmental, socio-economic, cultural, and demographic changes experienced by Arctic coastal communities in relation to climate change adaptation and mitigation measures, focusing on young people's visions for a sustainable future and their involvement in regional, national and EU-level environmental decision-making; 3) investigate the transformative potential of sea- and landscapes as living archives to inform TEK-rooted resource governance and empower local institutions and knowledge centers to become open spaces for dynamic community-led research. The role of Indigenous art, handicraft, and art-based methods is highlighted as they contribute to healing, reconciliation, and environmental coping mechanisms in Arctic coastal regions. BIRGEJUPMI is grounded in Indigenous methodologies and adopts a Co-Production of Knowledge (CPK) and Two-Eyed Seeing approach to advance decolonial research and responsible policy.
For more details, check out BIRGEJUPMI at the EU website
The purpose of the project is to demonstrate how human health and well-being has interlinked relationship with biodiversity and sustainability through elevating and practicing Tayal Peoples’s knowledge about millets. Check out a summary of our project in the 2025 January Newsletter!
Research collaborators: Dr. Yih-Ren Lin, Linhuyan pruruw yuwaw qalang Tayal (The Association for Tayal People’s Sustainable Development)
Project leader: Mai Camilla Munkejord
Funding: NORCE – Norwegian research centre
This project examines ageing, quality of life, and home-based care among two indigenous peoples: Sámi in Norway and Atayal in Taiwan. we will combine perspectives from culture-sensitive nursing, human geography and indigenous studies to disclose gendered and generational expectations and experiences of ageing and care. This will help us understand how cultural and spatial aspects of care related to family networks, cohabitation patterns, distance and climate may shape the everyday lives of older indigenous women and men in specific locations. Overall, this project has decolonizing ambitions, and aims at bridging indigenous ways of knowing and Western perceptions and policy building.
Researcher: I-An Gao (Wasiq Silan).