The Project involves 11 partner institutions:

4 Norwegians: University of Tromsø (UiT), Akvaplan-niva (APN), the University Centre In Svalbard (UNIS), the Norwegian Institute for Water research (NIVA).

5 Russian: The Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Centre (RAS), the Zoological Institute (RAS) and its laboratory White Sea Biological station, the St. Petersburg State University, the Laboratory of Plankton Ecology, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (RAS), and the Northern Arctic Federal University (NArFU)

1 US: NOAA Climate Program Office, USA

1 French: University of Bordeaux UMR CNRS 5805 EPOC