Public one-day festival

Qaagitsi – Greenland Science Week 2025
Nov 14 2025

A public one-day science festival in Nuuk, where curiosity, community, and creativity collide.

 

Qaagitsi is a one-day festival held at Katuaq, Nuuk, designed to bring together researchers and the public.

 

Throughout the day, the Katuaq foyer will be buzzing with activity as researchers host informal booths where visitors can explore research taking place across Greenland. In the rooms, a diverse program of talks, workshops, and hands-on events will offer engaging ways for the public to discover research taking place in Greenland.

 

Qaagitsi is your opportunity to open your research to the community, and in return, listen to what the community brings to you.
A chance to be part of something more than a presentation — a mutual encounter where knowledge, curiosity, and experience meet across generations, disciplines, and everyday life.

 

We’ve already received lots of registrations from researchers and stakeholders eager to contribute. We don’t want to decide whose ideas or knowledge are more important, so we’ll be filling the program on a first-come, first-served basis. That means: once all booth spaces, talk slots, and workshop rooms are booked, we won’t be able to include more.  So, if you want to take part in Qaagitsi, make sure to register as soon as possible!

How to participate 

Book a table: Set up an informal booth to present your research. Whether you bring bones, instruments, photos, maps, specimens, or crafts — what matters is creating a bridge between your world and theirs. We’ll do our best to assist with logistics.

 

Give a talk: If you have an idea for a talk, let us know. We’ll gather a science talks program between 2-6pm.

 

Think bigger: If you have an idea for a hands-on activity, sharing circle, movie screening, roundtable, or something more immersive, let us know and we’ll try to accommodate that as best as we can in one of Katuaq’s rooms.

Sign up here

Why participate?

 

As a researcher, your work might unfold in many different landscapes — in archives, on the sea ice, at a health clinic, in a classroom, among historical texts, through interviews, in mapping software, in oral storytelling sessions, through ecological sampling, policy analysis, or artistic creation.

 

Whether you’re working with glaciers or governance, fisheries or family structures, minerals or music, your research is part of a wider Greenlandic story — one that is deeply connected to place, people, and the pressing questions of our time. 

 

Qaagitsi creates a space where these threads can be woven together. It’s a celebration of knowledge in all its forms — because we believe science belongs with society, not apart from it. Qaagitsi is your chance to: 

  • Share your work in accessible and tangible ways 
  • Discover how the public relates to the themes you explore 
  • Exchange perspectives, stories, and even methods with people you might not otherwise meet

This is not outreach. This is exchange.

 

Qaagitsi is not about simplifying science — it’s about enriching it through dialogue. 

 

Come with your findings. Leave with new questions, new collaborations, or perhaps even new data — shaped by the people whose land, sea, and sky you study.

 

We look forward to seeing your make science matter!