Northern Lights Expeditions

Northern Lights Expeditions is an initiative to establish links between children of isolated indigenous communities of the Arctic, and children of the United Kingdom and France.

Our aim is to provide the children once in a lifetime experiences of exploring the arctic for themselves. The emphasis of the project is to increase the children's confidence and self-reliance through the ‘inspiration of exploration’.

Children from the UK and France will travel to Greenland and share experiences with the Inuit, whilst living amongst them and on dog sled expedition. Returning to their home countries, the children will have the opportunity to pass on their experiences to other school children, who have been sharing the project via Oracle Education Foundation's Thinkquest.org. Using this site, the schools are developing online projects exchanging ideas and media through projects covering areas of global warming, song, dance, and social cultural comparisons.