Arctic Indigenous Exchange Program

Coming in 2025!

About AIEP

The Arctic Indigenous Exchange Program (AIEP) will bring together approximately 50 Indigenous leaders, including business development professionals, government officials, and entrepreneurs from Canada, Greenland, and Alaska, for a multi-phase exchange program to explore areas of regional cooperation across the Arctic. The program is aimed at strengthening people-to-people relationships, advancing cooperation, and fostering greater commercial and cultural ties between Arctic Indigenous populations in the United States, Canada, and Greenland across a range of priority areas. The program is supported for 3-years (2025-2028) through the U.S. State Department. 

Program Goals 

1. 1. Promote mutual understanding and lasting partnerships between emerging and mid-level Arctic Indigenous leaders from Canada, Greenland, and the United State
   2. Provide opportunities for foreign and U.S. emerging leaders to collaborate and share ideas, approaches, and strategies regarding pressing challenges
   3. Foster greater commercial and cultural ties between the Arctic indigenous communities in Greenland, Canada, and the United States and
   4. Create a network of Arctic Indigenous leaders committed to sound business practices, ethical management, sustainable development, social entrepreneurship, and community involvement.

Follow for Updates

This program will launch in early 2025. For updates, please email Hanna Eklund, at heklund@institutenorth.org