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Big Turnout for Nordplus Seminar on Sustainable Integration Projects

An impressive number of successful Nordplus projects with a focus on integration were presented when Nordplus hosted a virtual integration seminar. This initiative is full of inspiration for future projects across the Nordic and Baltic countries.

Digital Learning: Children in the Nordics face the same challenges

Pedagogues and preschool teachers must develop children’s creativity and ability to create digital content themselves. It is a tough task, and therefore a number of universities, municipalities, folk high schools, pedagogue- and teacher educations, and preschools across all the Nordic countries have joined together.

Two, Three, or Four Languages – Your Brain Can Do It

In many countries, pupils learn a first and second foreign language at an increasingly younger age. Research shows early foreign language learning in and of itself does not lead to more nor better learning. It namely requires well-founded didactic competences to teach the youngest schoolchildren, and it is therefore important to invest in further education for teachers. A Nordplus project has now shown that it is possible to build a bridge between Nordic public schools, teacher education, further education for teachers, and university research.

Nordplus Network Has Developed a Joint Nordic Master’s Degree

The ABS Network unites researchers, students, and all types of teachers at universities in the Nordic and Baltic countries. They work with atmosphere, biosphere, and climate change – they are not great in numbers and perhaps that is the reason why their network is of great significance

They Show an Alternative Future for Sustainable Urban Development

What happens when a group of Nordic researchers and students meet with the political and administrative level in a city and have to jointly find solutions to problems and establish a sustainable city district? They cooperate – and find brand new solutions

The Students Practise on Companies, Volcanoes, and Bicycles

An Icelandic and a Danish gymnasium have class exchanges as a fixed part of their teaching. It provides theoretical qualities, new cultural insights, and an opportunity to examine the role of the North in innovative solutions in the field of renewable energy

A Gigantic Music Network Binds the Baltic and Nordic Regions Together

The Sibelius Network makes smaller conservatoires bigger and creates new dynamics and innovation in the most traditional conservatoires in the Nordic and Baltic countries. A network for everyone – with 25 years of common history.