Global civil society activity in Norway

Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula with a population of 5.5 million as of 2024. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of Norway. Bouvet Island, located in the Subantarctic, is a dependency, and not a part of the Kingdom; Norway also claims the Antarctic territories of Peter I Island and Queen Maud Land. The capital and largest city in Norway is Oslo.

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Meetings Statistics

From UIA's International Meetings Statistics Report

Top 25 over 20 years

Norway is ranked #21 over a 20 year period,
with 3449 meetings since 2004.

Top 25 in 2023

Norway is ranked #17 for 2023, with 164 meetings.

Local UIA Partner

Norway Convention Bureau

website: https://www.visitnorway.com/meetings/services/bureaus/


Norway boasts modern conference venues close to nature and a wide array of incentive activities that make for truly memorable meetings. If you are looking for an event guaranteed to inspire, invigorate and re-energise, you will find Norway is a natural choice.

Unique experiences

Norway offers a wealth of exciting incentive programmes for both small and large groups, and provides itineraries with a real sense of adventure and memorable activities that will stay with participants long after they return back home. Whether dog sledding under the northern lights, golfing in the midnight sun or spotting polar bears on Svalbard, an incentive meeting in Norway never fails to impress.

Stunning nature

Norway also boasts conference and meeting venues with nature right on their doorstep, bringing visitors closer to the great outdoors than any other destination. A great diversity of landscapes awaits, from deep fjords and rugged mountain peaks to vast snowy plateaus and a coastline dotted with thousands of islands. So wherever you choose to hold your event, you can expect a stunning backdrop.

A year-round destination

Norway is a year-round destination with warm summer days and a temperate winter climate (not as cold as many believe, thanks to the influence of the Gulf Stream), meaning you can hold your conference or event here whatever the season. The midnight sun in summer and the northern lights in winter will lend your event an additional, unique dimension.


Local UIA Partner

Stavanger Forum

website: http://www.stavanger-forum.no


Stavanger Forum is one of Norway's few conference and exhibition centres, able to offer 25 meeting rooms with capacities from 10 to 1 707 people and roughly 15 000 square metres of stand space. As Stavanger's only professional congress organiser (PCO), we have organised and hosted a number of national and international events.

We celebrate our 30th anniversary in April 2011. We possess the largest auditorium in Rogaland county, able to seat 1 707 people. It can be split into three smaller auditoria, and can accommodate 864 people for a banquet with long tables. Combined with our 690-square-metre indoor plaza, Forum Torg, these dimensions give us exciting opportunities to stage large and more demanding events.

The Rica Forum Hotel, with 182 rooms, is part of the same complex as our conference centre, and we cooperate with all the hotels in the region.


Organizations based in Norway

International Association of Constitutional Law - Kristiansand
Nordiska Arbetarsångar- och Musikerförbundet - Sandefjord
European Respiratory Care Association - Bergen
Saami Council - Karasjok
Nordiska Hörselskadades Samarbetskommittén - Oslo
International Research Group for Psycho-Societal Analysis - Stavanger
Nordic Bridge Union - Oslo
Nordic Immigration Committee - Oslo
Nordic Committee for Public Inspection of Flammable and Explosive Goods - Tønsberg
Nordic International Studies Association - Oslo
NORDSYNC - Oslo
International Society of Fish and Shellfish Immunology - Oslo
Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion - Oslo
Nordic Association for Allotments - Oslo
Nordic Weightlifting Federation - Trondheim
Nordisk Trafikskole Union - Oslo
International Association for Critical Realism - Tromsø
European Veterinary Dental College - Sem
Council of Christian Churches in the Barents Region - Oslo
Dövas Nordiska Råd - Oslo
Association of World Reindeer Herders - Kautokeino
European Society of Endodontology - Oslo
Scandinavian Reliability Engineers - Halden
European VLBI Group for Geodesy and Astrometry - Ny-Ålesund
Scandinavian Society for Biomaterials - Oslo

View More profiles (297) in the Yearbook of International Organizations

Future Events in Norway

2032 Nordic Congress of General PracticeNordic Federation of General Practice ApS - Oslo

2029 Nordic Process Control WorkshopNordic Working Group on Process Control - Oslo

2028 World Expression Forum (WEXFO)World Expression Forum - Lillehammer

2027 World Expression Forum (WEXFO)World Expression Forum - Lillehammer

2026 World Expression Forum (WEXFO)World Expression Forum - Lillehammer

2026 World ContestWorld Ploughing Organization - Lillehammer

2026 Annual ConferenceNordiska kommunforskningsföreningen - Oslo

2025 Europe Social Work ConferenceInternational Federation of Social Workers - Oslo

2025 ConferenceNordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies - Oslo

2025 Nordic Wastewater ConferenceNordic Waste Water Conference - Oslo

2025 Nordic Congress on Low VisionNordisk Kongress i Synpedagogik - Sandefjord

2025 Biennial ConferenceInternational Neurotoxicology Association - Sommarøy

2025 EUROCORR - European Corrosion CongressEuropean Federation of Corrosion - Stavanger

2025 Nordic Congress of Wildlife ResearchNordic Council for Wildlife Research - Lillehammer

2025 Perdix SymposiumInternational Union of Game Biologists - Lillehammer

View More Future Events (18) in The International Congress Calendar

Past Events in Norway

2024 Conference – Nordisk Liturgisk Netvaerk - Trondheim
2024 International Maritime and Port Technology and Development Conference (MTEC) – SINTEFInternational Maritime and Port Technology and Development ConferenceInternational Network for Autonomous Ships
2024 International Conference on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship (ICMASS) – International Network for Autonomous Ships - Trondheim
2024 Annual Symposium – Nordic Association of Cleanroom Technology - Oslo
2024 Annual Meeting – Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators - Oslo
2024 Professional Conference – Kommunalanställdas Nordiska Samarbete - Oslo
2024 Annual Meeting – Scandinavian Association of Pollination Ecology - Lofthus
2024 Conference – European Federation of City Farms - Tønsberg
2024 International Snow Science Workshop (ISSW) – International Snow Science Workshop - Tromsø
2024 Nordic Pediatric Cardiology Meeting – Nordic Pediatric Cardiology meeting - Oslo
2024 Annual Conference – NORDUnet - Bergen
2024 Biennial Congress – International Association of Paper Historians - Oslo
2024 Annual Meeting – European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children - Oslo
2024 Annual Conference – European Association of Labour Economists - Bergen
2024 Annual Meeting – Nordic Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases - Oslo

View More Past Events (7732) in The International Congress Calendar

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