SING Canada will forgo hosting a summer workshop in 2025 and instead will offer support to a new branch of the SING Global family developing in Sámi territories across Sweden.

From August 12th to 16th, 2025, we will collaboratively host a one-week workshop in the Lule Sámi area of the Sámi territories known as Sábme or “Sápmi” (located within Sweden).  The workshop will be based not only on the SING Canada model but also on land-based learning approaches applied locally by Sámi reindeer herders and land users.  The workshop will provide both hands-on, place-based education in Sámi cultural practices, as well as practical and technical skill-building in environmental genomics approaches.  The workshop will be supplemented by learning sessions introducing a critical and ethical framework for considering Indigenous science and educational approaches.

Young Indigenous scientists will be joined by members of the Gällivare forest Sámi reindeer herding community, local Sami researchers and the SING Canada faculty, in this newly designed one-week intensive workshop. Our program is still under development, and our partners will organize applications through Uppsala University. Registration will open in the new year. We will prioritize Sámi applicants in Sweden and from across Sámi territories, but pending available funding, may accept–in the interest of continuing to build our global Indigenous genomics network–a participant or two from another part of the world.