23-25 March Vardø (Norway) hosted championship of Yukigassen – snowball fight. This year the championship was attended by a record number of teams. 60 teams from all over Norway, Finland and Russia (Murmansk) fought to be the champion.

Finnish, Swedish, Russian and Norwegian partners of Young Innovative Entrepreneurs in the Barents region project met in Tornio (Finland) to launch the project.

Ecofashion is a comparatively new trend that has already become popular.
We invite fashion designers and everyone to take part in the Fashion Sketch Competition. You can not only wear ecological clothes, but also create it!

In April, 18-22, 2012, Petrozavodsk, the capital of the Republic of Karelia, will become the center of ecology-focused life of the Barents Region. BEFF unites the film directors, who make films about the environment, raise the ecological issues and offer positive problem solutions.

Summer dancing camp “Street style” is a three-month project for young people who dance and teach dancing. The project won the grant from the Ministry of youth, sport and tourism issues and was an initiative from Arkhangelsk City Cultural Centre.

This year in October 200 young and creative entrepreneurs from all over the Barents region will gather together for the II International Forum of Young Entrepreneurs in Arkhangelsk.

Are you between 17 and 25 years of age and from the Barents region? Then we want YOU to take part in a discussion around fears, expectations, hopes and dreams and how YOU think YOU can start influencing the situation in our exciting and unique Barents region.

Annual winter conference on the problems of climate change gathered more than 200 students, researchers, industry representatives, politicians and decision makers from different nations from North America, Northern Europe and Russia in Swedish Jokkmokk in the beginning of February. The aim of the conference was to offer young people an opportunity of working with the future, meeting friends and developing new strategies and initiatives for the North. Their recommendations and demands will be handed over and discussed with governmental representatives from Sweden, Norway, Finnland, Canada and the US.

The Vth International Children &Youth Music & Theatre Festival ”Golden keys” shall be held in April 2012 in the capital of the Republic of Karelia, in Petrozavodsk. The topic of the festival shall be “Fairytale from the North in XXI century”.

The International Children’s Photo Exhibition “We Are Living In The North!”will take place during the Third SEVER.doc Fest in Norilsk. “Sever” means North in Russian. Norilsk – is one of the very North cities in the planet with very hard and cold climate. It is situated far in the North Siberia in Russia. The Exhibition will open the Third SEVER.doc Fest in Norilsk at 24th of February, 2012.