Project Examples
Quality shall be one overarching evaluation and selection criteria in the programme. Priority will be given to programme activities that support and promote cooperation in education between the participating countries and that aim to create, develop and disseminate results and products that are of interest in the participating countries.
All granted Nordplus projects
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.
Start with Yourself - a project on health and lifestyle
In the Nordplus Junior project "Start with Yourself", students at Sveaskolan in Malmö, along with schools in Latvia, Lithuania and Iceland, studied the concept of health from four different perspectives: environment, drug abuse, exercise and eating habits. The project has been to make students more aware of their own health and what their lifestyle choices can have of impact on them now and in the future.
A study on chocolate
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.
Entrepreneurship - the way to success
"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)
The Nesting Box Project
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.
Open minds and a sense of belonging
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.
SOS Polar Bears
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.
Examining opportunities of the deaf and hard of hearing
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.
Learning with Lithuanians
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.
Focus on the climate issue
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.
