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Welcome to the official web-site of Information office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Kaliningrad.

INFORMATION OFFICE OF THE NORDIC COUNCIL OF MINISTERS IN KALININGRAD

The opening of the Information Office of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Kaliningrad took place on the 14^th of September in the Museum of the World Ocean. Arne Grove, Honorary Consul of Denmark in Kaliningrad, has been appointed the Director of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ new office.

THE NORDIC COUNCIL OF MINISTERS

Established in 1971
Governments of Denmark, Finland, Island, Norway and Sweden
Autonomous areas of the Faeroe Islands, Greenland and Aland
11 minister councils
Rotating chairmanship
25 institutions
Secretariat in Copenhagen
Budget of approx. 125 million Euro
Sister organization “Nordic Council” – for Nordic Parliamentarians

The main priority for 2009 is the coordination of three programs of the Nordic Council of Ministers:

Support program for Non-Governmental Institutions in the Baltic Sea Region;
Knowledge Building and Networking Programme for North-West Russia;
Program of Danish Chairmanship in the Nordic Council of Ministers for 2010.

Nordic Co-operation funds about twenty institutions throughout the region.
The main task of the Information Office will be developing of close cooperation with some of the Nordic Institutions, such as follows:

NOPEF (Nordic Project Export Fund)
NEFCO (Nordic Environment Finance Corporation)
NIB (Nordic Investment Bank)
NordForsk (Nordic Cooperation in Science and Research)
NICe (Nordic Innovation Centre)
NER (Nordic Energy Research Centre)
NORDREGIO (Nordic Centre for Spatial Development)
NOPUS (Nordic Educational Program) for Social Service Development) etc.

For more information on all Nordic Institutions click here.

Edited June, 2010

News

14/05/2010

Nordic interest in Russia

15 MPs from the Nordic Council are heading for the Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions of Russia on 16 May. The politicians will meet their Russian colleagues and learn more about the challenges facing the two Russian regions.

Sinikka Bohlin,
photo - Magnus Fröderberg/norden.org
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16/04/2010

Study visit to Denmark

A group of specialists from 9 municipalities of the Kaliningrad region is leaving for Denmark on 17 April 2010 to visit 6 Danish municipalities and to study experiences of Nordic countries on business development issues, municipal support of entrepreneurs, public-private partnership and companies’ staff upgrading.

photo - Nikolaj Bock, www.norden.org
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26/03/2010

Attitudes are what have to change in order for accessibility to be achieved

There is a great deal of interest among the Russian and Baltic participants on the course in Universal Design that begun on Monday at the Nordic School of Public Health (NHV). The discussions during lectures are lively and questions posed many from participants representing various sectors and agencies.
– The problem is to change attitudes so that those working for public institutions accept that these should be accessible for all, rather than it being an issue of lack of funding, says Andrey Zonin, Director for the Institute for Cultural Programs in St. Petersburg.
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