In 1999 Tina Sølbek Schmidt went to Iceland for a training course. As a biology teacher, she realized already at this stage what an interesting starting point a school cooperation with Iceland – with its dramatic nature so different from the Danish – would be for the biology subject. Nine years later the school management at Fredericia upper secondary school gave Tina the green light to reify her plans.

Byåsen secondary school in Norway posted a profile on the Nordplus Frameworks database. It was hoping to pair up with another school on the topic learning-related cooperation. The school, in Trondheim, did not have to wait long.

What is everyday life like for deaf and hard of hearing persons in different Nordic and Baltic countries? That was the starting point of a two years Nordplus Junior cooperation between schools in Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

Climate change was in focus when Kursenai Laurynas Ivinskis gymnasium from Lithuania and Harjavallan Lukio from Finland initiated the project "SOS Polar Bears" in 2009. Through the Nordplus Junior mobility project comic strips, video films and a calendar have been produced to illustrate the findings in the students' work.

With the project ‘From ancestral to today’ the two schools Väike-Maarja Gümnaasium in Estonia and Sonkajärvi Lukio in Finland have focused on tolerance and multiculturalism. Through dialogue, creative activities and intercultural exchange, the aim of this Nordplus Junior project was to create a sense of belonging to a common Europe.

Here you can find lists of all granted Nordplus-projects from the past years.

In addition, you can read more about some of the projects in the 'Project Examples'-section.

The lives of birds in different times of the year. That has been the theme of a Nordplus Junior project involving schools in Norway and Lithuania.

- Our cooperation gives added value to the learning. The pupils get to see their everyday life from a new perspective and to communicate in English, says Eirik Winsents, project coordinator and teacher at Gamlegrendåsen Skole in Kongsberg, Norway.

"The important thing is not to be afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is not to try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it."

(Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies)

With the market for chocolate and sweets as a basis, pupils from Stasys Salkauskis Gymnasium in Siauliai, Lithuania and Flen Stenhammar Basic School/Prins Wilhelm Gymnasium in Sweden have explored market research and entrepreneurship through a Nordplus Junior-project.

Students from four Nordic countries study Nordic landscape from different points of view and have found that there is much more to explore than just the landscape.