The organic winter meeting serve as a national meeting for the organic chemists of Norway. This is an annual event and an unique opportunity for organic chemists from both academia and industry to meet and make relations and possibly collaborations. For g raduate and dr. students the meeting serve as practical training in making presentations. The tradition is that we invite 3-4 distinguished foreign speakers to present their work making possibilities for international relations, as well. Both the social a nd scientific atmosphere are popular as seen by the stable number of participants and the fact that all geographical parts of Norway are represented.