The Nordplus Programme offers financial support to a variety of educational cooperation between partners in the area of lifelong learning from the eight participating countries and three autonomous regions in the Baltic and Nordic area.
Main objectives of Nordplus 2018 – 2022:
The programme serves as a tool:
- To strengthen and develop Nordic educational cooperation and contribute to the establishment of a Nordic-Baltic educational region
- To support, develop, draw benefit from and disseminate innovative products and processes in education through the systematic exchange of experiences and best practice
- To contribute to the development of quality and innovation in the educational systems for lifelong learning in the participating countries by means of educational cooperation, as well as cooperating with workplaces, about development projects, exchanges and building of networks
- To promote Nordic languages and culture, as well as mutual Nordic-Baltic linguistic and cultural understanding
- Strengthen the language comprehension for the Nordic languages, especially among children and youth, primarily for Danish, Swedish and Norwegian
- Encourage the interest in, knowledge of, and understanding of the Nordic languages.
Nordplus consists of the following sub-programmes:
- Nordplus Junior
- Nordplus Higher Education
- Nordplus Adult
- Nordplus Horizontal
- Nordplus Nordic Languages
The total yearly Nordplus budget is approximately 9.3 million EURO.
DENMARK
Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education - SFU
Bredgade 40
DK-1260 Copenhagen K
DENMARK
Telefon: +45 3544 6200
Fax: +45 3544 6201
E-post: nordplus@ufm.dk
Web: www.ufm.dk/nordplus
ESTONIA
Archimedes Foundation - Sihtasutus Archimedes
L. Koidula 13A
Tallinn 10125
ESTONIA
Telefon: +372 699 399
Fax: +372 697 9226
E-post: nordplus@archimedes.ee
Web: www.archimedes.ee
FAROE ISLANDS
Altjóða Skrivstovan - International Office
J. C. Svabos gøtu 7, P.O. Box 272
FO-110 Tórshavn
FAROE ISLANDS
Telefon: +298 292513
Fax: +298 352501
E-post: ask@setur.fo
Web: www.setur.fo/ask
FINLAND
Finnish National Agency for Education - EDUFI
P.O. Box 380 (Hakaniemenranta 6)
FI-00531 Helsinki
FINLAND
Telefon: +358 (0) 295 331 000
Fax: +358 (0) 295 331 035
E-post: nordplus@oph.fi
Web: www.oph.fi
GREENLAND
The Nordic Institute of Greenland - NAPA
Imaneq 21, P.O. Box 770
3900 Nuuk
GREENLAND
Telefon: +299 32 47 33
Fax: +299 32 57 33
E-post: napa@napa.gl
Web: www.napa.gl
ICELAND
Icelandic Center for Research - Rannis
Borgartún 30
105 Reykjavík
ICELAND
Telefon: +354 515 5800
Fax:
E-post: nordplus@rannis.is
Web: www.nordplus.is
LATVIA
State Education Development Agency - Valsts izglītības attīstības aģentūra
Vaļņu iela 1
Rīga LV-1050
LATVIA
Telefon: +371 6 78 14 322
Fax: +371 6 78 14 344
E-post: nordplus@viaa.gov.lv
Web: www.viaa.gov.lv
LITHUANIA
Education Exchanges Support Foundation – Švietimo mainų paramos fondas
Rožių al. 2,
LT-03106 Vilnius
LITHUANIA
Telefon: +370 5 261 0592
Fax: +370 5 249 7137
E-post: nordplus@smpf.lt
Web: www.nordplus.lt
NORWAY
Diku - Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in Higher Education
P.O. Box 1093 Sentrum
N-5809 Bergen
NORWAY
Telefon: +47 55 30 38 00
Fax: +47 55 30 38 01
E-post: nordplus@diku.no
Web: www.diku.no
SWEDEN
Swedish Council for Higher Education
Box 45093
104 30 Stockholm
SWEDEN
Telefon: +46 (0) 10 470 03 00
Fax:
E-post: nordplus@uhr.se
Web: www.utbyten.se
ÅLAND
The Government of Åland, Department for Education and Culture
Självstyrelsegården P.O. Box 1060
AX-22111 Mariehamn
ÅLAND
Telefon: +358 (0)18 25 000
Fax: +358 (0)18 19155
E-post: nordplus@utbildning.ax
Web: www.regeringen.ax
NEWS
Identity and Language are Supported by e-Books
Decades with no first language teaching has today been replaced by schools with Sami as their official teaching language and with distance education. Small e-books, developed as part of a Nordplus project, are an important tool in language teaching and identity formation.