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.

With the funding from Nordplus Horizontal and Nordic Culture Point, Finnish Circus Information Centre in collaboration with Turku University of Applied Science’s Arts Academy organized a Nordic seminar that focused on the future and challenges of contemporary circus pedagogy. The seminar offered an excellent occasion for networking and sharing good practices and it gathered participants from eleven countries.

On the 22nd of August 2011, as a part of the Nordic Circus Year 2011, Finnish Circus Information Centre, in collaboration with Turku University of Applied Sciences’ Arts Academy, organized Future Circus Arts Education – Seminar on Circus Pedagogy in Turku. The seminar gathered 55 international participants to discuss today’s and future’s circus education in Nordic countries. Different pedagogical issues from youth circuses to professional degree programmes were examined.

The morning session of the full-day seminar was reserved for lectures. Researcher JuttaVirolainen from Finnish Circus Information Centre presented parts from her recent Nordic Circus Survey, in which the current state and challenges of circus education in Nordic countries were analyzed. Jutta’s lecture was followed by presentations of the two Nordic university level degree programmes in contemporary circus: Stockholm’s Dans- och cirkushögskolan and Turku’s Arts Academy. Other interesting topics were: circus in the Finnish basic arts education system, Social Circus ESR-project from Tampere University and the research projects of FEDEC, the European network for professional circus schools.

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.

Conflicts surrounding management of natural resources is the topic when the network Nordnatur gathers students for an intensive course at Hedmark University College.

"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 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.

Innovation and creativity in rural development and agriculture is in focus when Valle upper secondary school at Toten, Norway, educate their students in the use of natural resources. Through international cooperation, competence to rethink traditional industries is developed.

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.

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.

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.