| Meeting | Topic |
| Autumn 2018 | Strategies to promote young researchers, instruments, tools (workshops, summer school) |
| Spring 2019 | Open Science themes |
| Autumn 2019 | Open science (contd), International cooperation between the research councils |
| Spring 2020 | Developing a EoI letter to NordForsk board to initiate a call for networks in NOS-N research fields |
| Autumn 2020 | Gender balance in research funding, how to use gender statistics. |
| Spring 2021 | Final reporting. |
| Autumn 2021 | Objectives and activities of NOS-N |
| Spring 2022 | Private and industry funding of research in the Nordic countries. |
| Autumn 2022 | National Centres of Excellence: Structure, policy, selection processes. |
| Spring 2023 | Research funders’ role in the green transition (and mitigating climate change) and relevant national policies. |
| Autumn 2023 | Inventory of national research infrastructures of interest in a Nordic context. |
| Spring 2024 | Evaluating the research assessment. | Autumn 2024 | Joint NOS-X meeting. |
| Spring 2025 | No specific topic. |
| Autumn 2025 | Research infrastructures. |
| Spring 2026 | Under use of research infrastructures. |