The Platform North Forum
The third Platform North Forum will take place on 17–18 March 2027 in Bodø, Norway
Location: Scandic Havet, Bodø
We recommend booking your hotel as early as possible.
Hotel booking references:
- Scandic Havet: BSTA160327
- Scandic Bodø: BSTA170327
Scandic Bodø is approximately a five-minute walk from the conference hotel, Scandic Havet.
More information and programme details will follow.
The 2026 conference
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
Article from the 2025 conference
