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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.
Save Money and Energy – and Make Us Independent from Russia
The populations in the Baltic States generally wish to save energy and live greener – but only a minority knows how. A Nordplus project attempts to remedy this.
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.
How Do We Make the Natural Sciences More Interesting?
Two high schools in Latvia and Sweden cooperated on a Nordplus project to improve the teaching of the natural sciences in both countries. It opened their eyes to what they do – both the good and the bad.
Empowerment by Employment
Video CVs and conferences for employers who hire disabled people – those are examples of new methods, which institutions from four nations have utilised in their work in securing the disabled a job.