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Overarching Science Question of Northern Eurasia Future Initiative (NEFI) is How to provide in Northern Eurasia a sustainable development in changing climate, ecosystems, and societies? When after 2016, NEFI replaced its predecessor Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI), the transition process was soft and slow. We incorporated the ongoing NEEESPI projects into NEFI (some had been completed and not continuing), gradually launched a new generation of NEFI projects, kept running joint annually NEFI/NEESPI sessions at large international conferences in the USA, Russia, and Japan, preserved dedicated NEESPI (and thereafter NEFI) publication outlets: special Issues of Environ. Res. Lett., Environ. Res. Comm., and Special Issues within the MDPI family of journals (Water, Forest, Atmosphere, Land, and Fire), and left unchanged a requirement of having international research teams as a qualification to name themselves NEFI projects (small study topics are filtered away by this requirement).