Implemented in 2012, the AVATIVUT Program involves Inuit high school students from 14 communities across Nunavik in community-based environmental monitoring while providing the opportunity for hands-on student learning on topics including Inuit culture and climate change. The project team, made up of participants from Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Kativik School Board, University of British Columbia, and Kuujjuaq High School, is proposing to build on and expand the program to the level of a national, then global education program while continuing to produce innovative and culturally relevant educational material for Inuit students that bridges scientific and local knowledge.
(Note that this project was a Finalist prior to 2017, when the current 3-tiered prize model was put in place. Their nomination therefore does not correspond to a particular category.)
