The following Arctic Council member countries and Permanent Participants will have the opportunity to be involved in the project: Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United States of America, and the Permanent Participants, currently comprised of the International Aleut Association, the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, the Saami Council, the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, the Arctic Athabaskan Council and the Gwich'in Council International.

An international Coordinating Committee has been formed. The Committee will have representation from the Arctic Council member countries and Permanent Participants.

The committee's function is to assist in locating potential host organizations, participants and sources of funding for the program in their respective countries. The following people are members of the Coordinating Committee:

Country Representatives:

Finland

Samu Seitsalo
Head of Division
Centre for International Mobility CIMO
PO Box 343
00531 Helsinki
Finland
E-mail: Samu.Seitsalo@cimo.fi

Canada

Carolee Buckler, Project Manager
International Institute for Sustainable Development
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
R3B 0Y4
E-mail: cbuckler@iisd.ca

Norway

Margareta Sandewall
Finnmark College, Barentspluskontoret
31, 9509 Alta, Norway
E-mail: mona.johnson@hifm.no

United States of America

Dr. Michael Sfraga
Director, Program Development
Suite 103
Butrovich Building
Univeristy of Alaska System
Fairbanks, Alaska 9977
E-mail: Michael.Sfraga@alaska.edu

Denmark

Viggo Haarlv
CIRUS
Fiolstrde 44
DK 1171 Kbenhavn K
E-mail: vh@ciriusmail.dk

Permanent Participants and Observer Members of the Arctic Council Who are on the Committee:

Priscilla Post Wohl
Executive Director
The Northern Forum
4101 University Drive, APU
Carr-Gottstein Centre, #221
Anchorage, Alaska 99508 USA
E-mail: pwohl@northernforum.org

Cindy Dickson
Executive Director
Arctic Athabaskan Council
11 Nisutlin Drive
Whitehorse, Yukon, Y1A 3A9
E-mail: cdickson@cyfn.net

Daria Kudriashova
Project Coordinator
RAIPON P.O. Box 110 Moscow, 119415 Russia
E-mail: dariakudriashova@hotmail.com