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NDI POLICY BRIEF 18: Culture must be recognized as a driver of sustainable development

Summary:This Policy Brief highlights the potential of culture to create stability and to support sustainability. It argues that culture directly affects our attitudes towards change, our wellbeing and our ability to feel empathy, which are the source of stability. Cultural activities support our experience of meaningful life and the sense of inclusion. The accelerating climate change with all its side …

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2021: A Round-up of last year’s NDI publications

NDI POLICY BRIEFS NDI POLICY BRIEF 14: Healthy ageing policy in Russia needs to consider gender, age, and territoryAnastasia Emelyanova, Elena GolubevaDownload the policy brief (PDF) NDI POLICY BRIEF 15: Accident information is needed to prevent emergencies in the Arctic watersSvetlana KuznetsovaDownload the policy brief (PDF) NDI POLICY BRIEF 16: Decarbonizing road passenger transport in the ND areaDmitry Vasilenko, Vasily …

Towards the next generation of social innovations – Northern Dimension Future Forum 2021

The annual Northern Dimension Future Forum took place at Aalto University, Finland, and online on December 1, 2021. In the Future Forum, experts and stakeholders discussed the sustainability of social innovations and policy measures induced by the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of Northern Dimension thematic partnerships.

Call for Ideas: Northern Spaces for Creative Innovation

Creating spaces where cross-sectorial collaboration and innovation can flourish The Northern Spaces for Creative Innovation Call for Ideas is open to cultural and creative industries (CCI) professionals from Northern Dimension countries to submit their cross-innovation project ideas.   Organisations from the cultural and creative industries sector are invited to test collaboration models and processes that create spaces, whether physical or digital, …

NDPC is looking to recruit a Digital and Communications Manager

The Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture NDPC is looking to recruit a Digital and Communications Manager at the Secretriat in Riga. The application deadline is 20 August, 2021. You are excited by the power of social and digital media. You are creative and understand how to represent a trusted brand online and are experienced in producing a range of forward-thinking professional content for …

Cross Innovation Workshop for Creatives by NDPC and Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft

The ND Partnership on Culture and the Cross Innovation Hub of Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft offer a digital workshop for visionary creative professionals who wish to learn more about the idea and potential of Cross Innovation.  In the search for new impulses for products, services, processes and business models it is increasingly worth looking beyond one’s own fields of action into other industries. It is precisely the …

New job opportunity at NDPC: Cultural and Creative Industry Project Advisor

The Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture is looking to recruit a Cultural and Creative Industry Project Advisor at the NDPC Secretariat in Riga. The Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture (NDPC) is an initiative focusing on the improvement of operating conditions for cultural and creative industries. Since 2010, the NDPC has served as a regional focal point regarding the information on …

Arts and Culture for a Better and Healthier Life: Open Call for Projects

With an Open Call for projects, NDPC in partnership with NDPHS, EUNIC and Arts Promotion Centre Finland, is launching the project “The Art of Staying Healthy”. The project “The Art of Staying Healthy” aims to develop collaboration between the arts and health sectors and to pilot arts interventions on the health and well-being of people and communities in the Northern Dimension (ND) area, which covers Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, …

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A recent study “Collaboration and Innovation in the Northern Dimension Countries” by the ND Partnership on Culture

A recent study published by the Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture (NDPC) suggests, amongst other findings, that there are seven important cross-sectoral innovation elements that should be taken into account when developing policy in this area. They are: Connectivity is the key to the preparatory phase of cross-sectoral innovation teamwork; CCIs’ roles as mediators or initiators of cross-sectoral innovation to …

Two vacancies at the NDPC Secretariat

The Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture NDPC Secretariat in Riga, Latvia is looking for a Project Manager and a Communications Manager.   They will support the implementation of the EU-funded project – Support to Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture, implemented in partnership with EU National Institutes for Culture, as well as help with NDPC activities in the upcoming years.   The …