The Platform North Forum
The second Platform North Forum took place on 17–18 March 2026 in Luleå, Sweden.
For more information and presentations from The Platform North Forum 2026:
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Picture 1 of 6: Ministers’ statement and panel discussion. From left to right: Moderator Björn Hasselgren, Senior Advisor, Swedish Transport Administration; Ola Nordlander, Deputy Director-General, Ministry of Rural Affairs and Infrastructure, Sweden; Jacob Vorren, State secretary, Ministry of Transport, Norway; Kari Wihlman, Director General, Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency. Photo: Viktor A. Pettersson / Swedish Transport Administration -
Picture 2 of 6: Roberto Maiorana, Director General (to the left) and Helena Eriksson, Regional Director Northern Region, Swedish Transport Administration. Photo: Viktor A. Pettersson / Swedish Transport Administration -
Picture 3 of 6: Ingrid Dahl Hovland, Director General, The Norwegian Public Road Administration. Photo: Viktor A. Pettersson / Swedish Transport Administration -
Picture 4 of 6: P-O Norell, Lieutenant colonel, Swedish Armed Forces. Photo: Viktor A. Pettersson / Swedish Transport Administration -
Picture 5 of 6: From left to right: Merete Nordheim, CEO, Bodø Business Forum and Børge Beisvåg, Head of business policy and communication, Mid-Norway Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Photo: Viktor A. Pettersson / Swedish Transport Administration -
Picture 6 of 6: The chairmanship was symbolically handed over from Sweden to Norway. Fromt left to right: Helena Eriksson, Regional Director Northern Region, Swedish Transport Administration (to the left) and Ine Hilling, Head of Transport and Society Northern Region, The Norwegian Public Road Administration. Photo: Viktor A. Pettersson / Swedish Transport Administration
The 2025 conference
The first conference in the Platform North collaboration was held in Luleå on February 12-13, 2025. The conference was led by Pat Cox (European Coordinator for the Scandinavian Mediterranean TEN-T Corridor) and Catherine Trautmann (European Coordinator for the TEN-T North Sea Corridor).
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Picture 1 of 3: Press conference about Platform North. From left: Norway's Minister of Transport Jon-Ivar Nygård, Trafikverket's Director General Roberto Maiorana, Sweden's Minister for Infrastructure Anders Carlson, and Jarkko Saarimäki, Director General of the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency. Photo: Jeanette Åhl /Trafikverket -
Picture 2 of 3: There were good panel debates during the conference. Here, from left: Catherine Trautmann, Pat Cox, Anders Carlson, Jon-Ivar Nygård, and Jarkko Saarimäki. Photo: Jeanette Åhl /Trafikverket -
Picture 3 of 3: The conference was led by EU coordinators Pat Cox (TEN-T Scandinavian-Mediterranean, ScanMed) and Catherine Trautmann (TEN-T North Sea Baltic corridor). Photo: Jeanette Åhl /Trafikverket
Presentations
Article from the 2025 conference
