Implementing the Arctic Sport Cluster Strategy

Abstract

Although efforts to promote physical activity and wellbeing have been ongoing for a long time, we are approaching a critical point where the effectiveness of this work must improve. Questions of individual and societal wellbeing and economic growth can, at their best, be aligned into shared goals and practical solutions, but achieving this requires increasingly close collaboration within networks. This compilation is a Cluster Strategy and a collection of articles illustrating networked activity under the Arctic Sport Cluster and the development work taking place within it. The compilation highlights the region’s rapidly growing networked approach to developing sports and wellbeing. Here, public institutions, companies, third-sector organizations, and citizens act together as drivers of movement and regional vitality. All participants contribute from their own perspectives, and the work takes place across local, regional, national, and international networks, engaging both people and organizations in collaborative development.