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.

Nyskapning og kreativitet innen bygdeutvikling og landbruk er i fokus når Valle videregående skole på Toten utdanner sine elever innen naturbruk. Gjennom internasjonalt samarbeid utvikles kompetanse til å tenke nytt i tradisjonelle næringer.

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The idea of the project was born from the realization how important it is for people travelling to neighboring countries to know at least several words or phrases of the country’s language. It can help make your trip much more pleasant and meaningful and feel more self-confident. Moreover, your efforts to address people in their native language will be most rewarding and people will become more open and friendly because of the respect you have exhibited for their country and culture. They will be pleased to learn that their language is important for a newcomer who has come not just for work, studies, but on a visit as well.

Junior Achievement Estonia has been engaged in the projects delivered by the Nordic Council of Ministers for years. The current project under the Nordplus Horizontal programme is called “Creative and entrepreneurship education in schools” and in the 2008/2009 and 2009/2010 academic years we have focused on relationship marketing as a tool for entrepreneurship and business but also for teaching entrepreneurship at school. The project involves 5 countries: Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland.

Dyktige lærere trengs for å skape et inspirerende læringsmiljø som stimulerer elevers interesse for naturfag. Dette er akkurat hva ”Polar research in the classroom” handler om. Prosjektet er initiert av Nasjonalt senter for romrelatert opplæring (NAROM) med støtte fra Nordplus Horisontalprogrammet. Prosjektet skal munne ut i opplæringskurs for nordiske lærere, med oppstart i 2010. Bestått kurs gir 10 ECTS.