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Successful project management is the key factor of any outstanding project. The topic of the project may vary from the purely scientific background and purpose to education and outreach activities, mapping, publishing etc. No matter what, the main idea of any project is to produce the product which will in the future serve the audience, the stakeholders of the Arctic; which will at certain level help to understand the region’s changes. This is to say that project management plays a significant role in helping observe, understand, research and study, monitor the Arctic region. This also includes the different stakeholders from bigger institutions to every single individual (scientist, observer, Arctic resident etc.) involved in the project. When it comes from the project management point of view, the roles of these project participants are very well described and mostly well-known. But when it comes from the stakeholder’s point of view, the perception of projects, their management and ways of implementation may greatly vary: from the “bunch of money” as seen by some research departments to the “part of my own life” when it comes to the indigenous groups or separate scientists, for example. How to balance this? How to try to understand and hear each other? How to better work together for successful project implementation? With this presentation I aim to give a few case studies from different projects and will try to find out the consensus.