To Telen on 29^th of January 2003 the participants told that they had looked at Kirkenes. One of the students, Ingrid Elise Løvlund Rekaa was part of a group, which looked at architecture and infrastructure in the town. She could see many similarities between Kirkenes and Notodden, for example that both of them down by the water. The students would later use the same method to analyse their own hometown, something they looked forward to.

The same participants were interviewed in Telemarksavisa two days later, on the 31^st of January 2003. To this newspaper another of the students, Ketil Sauarlia, told that his group at the youth conference had asked young people in Kirkenes whether they could like to stay in their town or move. Ketil was surprised that so many of them wanted to move. Project manager in Notodden, Egil Rye-Hytten, said that he thought that more young people would stay in Notodden than in Kirkenes. But, he told, one of the main goals with the PIPE project was to let the young people themselves find out what needed to be done in the municipalities so that they did not move.