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Post-modern relationships between dance and music
The Nordplus Higher Education network Explorations and Collaboration in the Arts (ECA) gathered over 70 university dance, music and film students from the Baltic and Nordic countries in Copenhagen to explore the idea of collaboration in dance and music. The results of the workshop are now available as a short documentary film – shot by students participating in the project.
Still active
Through intercultural learning activities, senior citizens in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Sweden was encouraged to interact with others by sharing cultural heritage and life experiences – both on a virtual platform and during face-to-face meetings.
Thinking Approach in Danish Language Teaching
Education in modern society should not only provide learners with solid knowledge of the subject, but also develop their abilities to think and to find innovative solutions to complex problems. However, teachers often don’t know how to organise their teaching in a way that promotes the learners’ creativity and makes them better thinkers. The Thinking Approach (TA) to language teaching offers tools for integrated development of both language and thinking skills for learners.
Parent-to-parent
What is the best way to combine family and career, and still have enough time and energy for personal development, family and personal growth? The Nordplus project “Parent-to-parent” seeks to find the answer to this question.
Learning with companies
The project “Learning with companies” aims to improve cooperation between educational institutions and companies in the Nordic-Baltic area.
Nordplus project with an impact at government level
Why is it women with a low level of education and foreign backgrounds who find it most difficult to enter the labour market? Yevgeniya Averhed, project manager at Folkuniversitetet in Uppsala, wanted to investigate this question. To find the answer she founded a project through the Nordplus Adult programme, in which she – together with colleagues from around the Nordic region and Lithuania – carried out a study.
Get a new streamline
Far too many mentally disabled youngsters do not receive sexual education neither at school nor at social care institutions, especially behind the old iron curtain. The project “Get a new streamline” seeks to change this.
Developing environmentally conscious offshore training in the North Atlantic
Stavanger Offshore Technical College (SOTS) is leading a project supported by Nordplus Horizontal which aims at developing the education and training in oil and gas in cooperation with local authorities and the industries.
Hugin & Munin – a Scandinavian storytelling project
Can children learn neighbour-languages from listening to a good story told by an inspiring storyteller? Absolutely – that is the experience from the project "Hugin & Munin".
NordPULS: A Nordic network for rhythmic music
There are few things that cross boundaries as easily as music, making it a perfect starting point for international cooperation and exchange.