On the 11th of December 2011 to the 18th of December 2011 the Ph.D. students (Katarína Drieniková, MSc. and Veronika Kaiserová, MSc.) of Institute Industrial Engineering, Management and Quality and Peter Sakál, Ph.D. Professor participated in the International Conference „Economic Research in the North: from Past to Future“ in Murmansk and Apatity in Russia.