MÁHTUT – Sámi knowledge and practices in the era of the green transition is a three-year project funded by Interreg Aurora‘s Sápmi program. The project’s main partner (EU) is the University of Lapland (Faculty of Social Sciences, especially Sámi research and Faculty of Law). The other partners are the Sámi Education Institute from Finland, Várdduo the Centre for Sámi Research of Umeå University from Sweden and the Arctic University Museum of Norway from Tromsø, Norway.

The Interreg Aurora funded project MÁHTUT – Sámi knowledge and practices in the era of the green transition supports, promotes and preserves traditional Sámi subsistence skills, knowledge and practices among Sámi communities in different parts of Sápmi. MÁHTUT aims to raise awareness of their importance and relevance in policy making in the era of green transition and focuses on implementing especially Sámi ideas of circularity and food sovereignty through its work packages. Sámi skills and knowledge have the capacity to advance grass-root green transition, ecological, economic and social sustainability and to strengthen Sámi circular economy. The project will improve inter-generational and cross-regional transfer of the best practices of Sámi subsistence skills and knowledge. The project also addresses Indigenous rights of the Sámi and other legal aspects related to Sámi skills, knowledge and traditions.