The activities will be in the form of the development of common protocols for arthropod studies under harsh field conditions, but also as international research proposals. NeAT also aims to facilitate networking and exchange of staff and students. This will be in the form of organizing sessions at international conferences, dedicated NeAT meetings as well as PhD courses and collaborative visits among institutions. The network has developed around key institutions in the Nordic countries as well as US and Canada to make it tractable and to organize key partners in the development of a more ambitions strategy for a large-scale network.