Nordic Thematic Seminar 2025 - Value of Strong Cooperation

This year’s focus: Partnerships

We’ll explore how partnerships—within and beyond your project—can enhance quality, deepen impact, and strengthen cooperation. Topics include:

• Internal collaboration within your organisation
• Engaging young people as partners
• Working with international and local partners
• Building networks and online partnerships
• Creating new partnerships and joint projects

Seminar Objectives

• Improve project quality
• Strengthen organisational capacity
• Foster Nordic cooperation

 Programme Overview

• 10 Nov (Mon): Arrival
• 11–12 Nov (Tue–Wed): Full programme with expert inputs, interactive workshops, project showcases, and peer learning
• 13 Nov (Thu): Departure

Some sessions will run in parallel, allowing you to choose what’s most relevant to your work.

Who Can Apply?

You should:

• Be motivated to improve your organisation’s work quality
• Be 18+ years old
• Be comfortable working in English
• Be involved in an ongoing or recently completed project funded by a Nordic NA
• Have a relevant role in your organisation and project

Safe, accessible and sustainable

In this event, we follow the principles of a safer space. We strive to ensure that everyone is met as their own self and that no one has to fear discrimination or harassment. We want you to respect the same principle.

Our activities are accessible to people with different abilities. If you need a support person, accessible room and transport or other kind of support, we will provide it for you. You can tell your individual needs in beforehand so we can support you in your participation.

We take sustainability in consideration where we can. Since most participants have to fly over the sea to Finland, we encourage you to travel on land within Finland. We also encourage you to contact your own national agency to find out how they support low emission travelling to activities abroad.

We provide plant-based meals, or use locally grown and produced foods, as much as possible. We also respect the diets and food allergies of all participants.