Twenty-one productive symposia/workshops have been held to date:
- Edefors, Sweden (1975)
- Fairbanks, USA (1977)
- Québec City, Canada (1979)
- Ullensvang, Norway (1982)
- Vierumäki, Finland (1984); Houghton, USA (1986)
- Ilulissat, Greenland (1988)
- Abisco, Sweden (1990)
- Whitehorse-Dawson-Inuvik, Canada (1992)
- Spitsbergen, Norway (1994);
- Prudhoe Bay-Fairbanks, USA (1997)
- Reykjavik-Kirkjubærjarklaustur, Iceland (1999)
- Saariselkä-Murmansk, Finland/Russia (2001)
- Kangerlussuaq, Greenland/Denmark (2003)
- Luleå-Kvikkjokk, Sweden (2005):
- Karelia, Russia (2007)
- Eastern Arctic, Canada (2009)
- Bergen-Geiranger-Loen-Fjærland-Voss, Norway (2011)
- South-central Alaska, USA (2013)
- Kuusamo, Finland (2015)
- Yakutsk, Russia (2017).