Collaborations of the Arctic PASSION consortium and different groups of rights holders and stakeholders will improve the knowledge about the changing Arctic environment and will develop more targeted and user-friendly services for managing and predicting Arctic change. Through the process of inclusive co-creation, Arctic PASSION strives to support, highlight, and increase the contribution and visibility of Indigenous and Local Knowledge and community-based monitoring within a pan-Arctic Observing System of Systems.

Co-creation and inclusiveness are key principles of Arctic PASSION and are not exclusively embedded in the Pilot Services, but necessitates establishing workshops and dialogue platforms for broad engagement and interaction among rights holders, stakeholders and science partners across all Work Packages.

This Arctic PASSION Stakeholder Engagement Plan identifies the different rights holder and stakeholder groups of the Arctic PASSION project and gives an overview on the different levels of engagement. The main identified groups are Indigenous Peoples’ communities, Arctic residents, policy- and decision makers, international organisations, research institutions and programmes, observation services and the private sector.

In relation to the Arctic PASSION Communication plan, the engagement activities and the general engagement processes are described. This plan also briefly outlines a basic framework of values for project cooperation with rights holders and stakeholders and how Arctic PASSION will manage data use with reference to the Arctic PASSION Data Management Plan.