WP8 adventured to Ilulissat in Greenland in March 2026 to engage with local stakeholders.

Summer means expeditions in Arctic research. A team, led by the ILLUQ coordinator Hugues Lantuit, is currently on the Hersechel Island / Qikiqtaruk on field work related to the WPs 1 and 6.

We continued our consultation meetings in Svalbard. This time in collaboration with our sister projects ICEBERG and ArcSolution.

The fantastic town of Sisimiut welcomed us again in February 2026, thanks to the Arctic DTU.

The past week ILLUQ held its first annual meeting in the beatiful Sesimbra in Portugal.

Consultations in the local communities form a large part of ILLUQ activities. In summer 2024, we visited Inuvik, Tuktoyaktuk, and Aklavik as part of the ILLUQ project’s outreach and collaboration efforts.

The DTU team have been in Greenland again in summer and fall 2025 to study the linkages between permafrost thaw and drinking water quality.

A new trans-disciplinary, comparative study reveals key risks posed by thawing Arctic permafrost.

A big part of our research takes place in the Arctic in expeditions. Our researchers visit local communties in Western Greenland, Svalbard and in the Canadian Arctic.

Work packages 1, 2 and 3 joined efforts together with the project ThinIce (Thawing industrial legacies in the Arctic - a threat to permafrost ecosystems) also this year, in the western arctic tundra.

The ILLUQ 2024 summer field work kicked off with an expedition to the Herschel Island / Qikiqtaruk in the Yukon coast in Canada.

Between June 16-20, 2024 ILLUQ presented its upcoming activities at the ICOP2024 in Whitehorse, Canada.

The Portuguese team set off on August 22nd to Sisimiut, Greenland, with the mission of collecting samples for contaminants in flora and fauna.

The last of the three consultations locations was Ilulissat in Greenland, where we visited several public and private institutions. 

The ILLUQ kick-off meeting took place between 11-15 March 2024 in the magnificent setting of the French Alps in Aussois.