The programme contained the following activities:

Longyearbyen: Visit to Svalbard Science Forum. Host: Christiaane Hübner

Longyearbyen: Visit to UNIS and introduction to SIOS. Host: Ragnhild Rönneberg

Introduction to the Netherlands Arctic Station

Walk to field site with Open Top Chambers Jelte Rozema Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Visit to NERC/BAS Harland huset (UK). A summer station of the Britisch Antarctic Survey and the National Environmental Council. Host: station leader Nick Cox

Visit to AWIPEV facilities (joint base Germany and France), starting with a launch of a balloon with ozone sonde and a tour through the atmospheric research laboratory. Host: engineer Andrea Gross and station leader Rudolf Denkmann.

Visit Kings Bay (Norway), the company owns and runs Ny-Alesund with the purpose to accommodate science, Host: director Ole Øiseth

Visit to the Norwegian Polar Institute (Norway) the biggest station, many cooperative projects also providing technical and logistic support to many. Host: station leader Max König.

Visit Kongsfjorden Marine Laboratory a general facility for research projects, accommodation and facilities for rent. Host: Elisabeth Råstad

Boattrip to Ny-London and Blomstranden, archeological fieldwork, boattour around Blomstranden with Maarten Loonen, boat driven by Wojtek Moskal (NPI)

Walk over tundra to Krikjefjellet via Corbell Station and Gåsebu with Maarten Loonen

Visit to the newly restored Amundsen Villa with murals

Visit to diving facilities Marine Laboratory. Host: Max Schwanitz (AWIPEV)

Conversation with the science advisor of Kings Bay Hallvar Gisnås

Longyearbyen: Visit to Svalbard Museum