The monitoring committee confirmed the timetables and objectives of the calls for proposals opened in 2012. The calls for proposals concentrating on cultural cooperation and on social wellbeing will be opened on February 1st 2012 and the first phases of those calls will be closed on March 19th. The call focusing on sustainable exploitation of the natural resources will be opened on April 2nd and closed on 27th August 2012. 

The applicant's packages will be published once the call in question opens but the objectives of each call can be read already now from the themes' pages. 

The information events relating to all of the calls will be organised as follows:

• Kostomuksha 2.2.12 (the even is meant both for Finns and Russian (interpretation between Finnish and Russian) and there shall be a possibility for connecting between organisations interested in implementing the projets).
• Oulu 7.2.12.
• Joensuu 16.2.12.