The Year of Polar Prediction was initiated by the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) as the key component of the 10-year Polar Prediction Project (PPP, https://www.polarprediction.net). The aim is to promote cooperative international research enabling the development of improved weather and environmental prediction services for the polar regions, on timescales from hours to seasons.

Authors describe basic challenges of project and community management in polar sciences, identified through survey responses in addition to the authors’ own variou professional experiences. Four overarching themes were identified: international cooperation, interdisciplinarity, infrastructure, and community management. Case studies and survey results are discussed with the conclusive goal to provide recommendations on how reach the full potential in polar science project and community management