D1.7 Recommendations from the joint scientific and operational workshop on implementation of shared European cruises

The study of the Arctic Ocean has become a priority area of research and innovation in Europe and internationally during the past decades. This report reviews the input from an international virtual workshop during ASSW 2021 and a follow-up online survey initiated during ASSW 2022 about the bottlenecks and possible suggestions for how joint or shared European or international research cruises on research icebreakers (or polar research vessels) can be conducted to facilitate transnational Arctic research. While the challenges for typically national assets like research icebreakers are multiple and multi-level, the input from the workshop and survey describes possible ways to access research icebreakers and also identifies typical obstacles faced by scientists for such access.