The 2016-2017 campaign - due to begin on November 25 in Ruka in Finland - will feature the Raw Air competition at four locations in Norway for the first time.

Four World Cup competitions are scheduled to be held in the country in a row between March 11 and 19, in Oslo, Lillehammer, Trondheim and Vikersund.

Points gained will count to the overall World Cup standings, with results achieved at Raw Air meetings also serving as a separate competition in itself.

This is the same format used by the Four Hills tournament, one of ski jumping's most prestigious prizes.

The new season's event is due to begin at Oberstdorf in Germany on December 30 before continuing on January 1 at another German hill, Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

The Four Hills will then move to Austria for competitions in Innsbruck and Bischofshofen on January 4 and 6 respectively.

"We want to make clear right from the start, Raw Air will not be a copy of the Four Hills tournament," said Raw Air coordinator Arne Abraten.

"We don't want to be and will not enter into competition with the great Four Hills tournament."

Four individual and two team events will be held as part of Raw Air.

The competition will differ from the Four Hills as qualification results will also count towards the overall rankings.

Qualifications will be named prologues and athletes will have to participate in the prologue in order to win the Raw Air overall title.

Athletes will travel between venues using a chartered train, while Norwegian broadcaster NRK has signed up to show the action.

"NRK is fully convinced of the project and we will produce a first class broadcast of all the competitions and jumps with our colleagues from NRK and offer it worldwide," said Abraten.

"The interest is huge."

The Norwegian Ski Association hope that Raw Air, first proposed at meetings held by the FIS Ski Jumping Sub-Committees in Zurich in April, will boost the sport in the country.

In Vikersund, events will be in ski flying rather than ski jumping.