Among planned activities are first, to run annual workshops for the members of the TN as well as for PhD students on political sciences back-to-back to international conferences and seminars, such as NRF Open Assemblies and Calotte Academy; second, to implement the interplay between research and teaching, between senior and young researchers and between science and politics; third, to act as a joint platform for discussion on these matters in general and particularly between the NRF and the UArctic; and final, to launch and run an international research project on the themes.

To implement the aims and long-term purposes, as well as to promote interdisciplinary discourse on the two focus areas, the TN on Geopolitics and Security

• Publishes annually The Arctic Yearbook - the first yearbook was published in 2012. all published Arctic Yearbooks can be found here.
  • Arctic Yearbook 2024: Arctic Relations: Transformations, Legacies and Futures.
• The TN acts as a joint platform for discussion on (Arctic) geopolitics and (Northern) security in general, and particularly between the NRF and the UArctic and its Thematic Networks. The TN also implements the interplay between science and politics, and between senior and young researchers;
• Takes initiatives for and coordinates, supports and runs, international research and book projects on IR, geopolitics and security studies.