Teach togetherness. Dissemination webinar 27 May on social sustainability

Welcome to join Nordplus open online seminar where the thematic focus goes in line with the former highlight of the programme “Enhancing educational cooperation and preparing pupils, students, and adults for a socially sustainable future”.

By supporting cross-country collaboration on this issue, Nordplus has played an important role in contributing to the enhancement of quality education on sustainable development at all levels of education. Therefore the seminar aims to:

Strenghten and visualize Nordic and Baltic cooperation within education (preschool, school, vocational training, adult and higher education)
Create an arena for dissemination of best practice project examples.
Showcase and follow-up the Nordplus Programme contribution of the Nordic vision 2030 - and the specific thematic highlight.

For whom

The seminar will address the whole educational sector, Nordplus five sub-programmes as well as organisations and institutions, interested in social sustainability within education, cross-country cooperation and project results.

Date and time

Where: Online
When: Tuesday 27 May 2025
What time: 13.00–15.30 cet + optional session to learn more about Nordplus 15.40–16.10 cet

Registration

Programme

Programme facilitator: Johanna Lund Rockliffe

Inclusion or Exclusion: Nordplus Junior

Ruta Zickiene (Sweden) & Rita Siliniene (Lithuania)

A pre-school democracy development project which aims to work together on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The children will have access to the right to participate in decisions and to practice expressing their opinion. They should also know how to agree on decisions through democratic principles. The objective of the teachers is to enhance their listening skills and to provide them with valuable tools to meet and manage children's expression and use it to strengthen democratic processes. In the long run the targeted children and the teachers will get a more thorough understanding of what democracy is and how to maintain a democracy for the future.

Nordic-Baltic Collaboration in Education for Social Sustainability

Keynote: Elina Lehtomäki, professor global education, University of Oulu (Finland)

Elin Lehtomäkis research interests include global education and learning, social meaning of education, equity and inclusion in and through education, cross-cultural collaboration, and internationalization in higher education.

Citizenship in adult education: Nordplus Adult

Kristina Bilic (Denmark)

This teacher mobility project deals with active citizenship and democratic participation. Teachers from Denmark, Iceland, Finland and Sweden have exchanged knowledge and best practices on how to promote active citizenship in terms of creating a connection between the classroom and the local community as well as teaching controversial topics in order to create good conditions for democratic dialogue. 33 teachers were exchanged in stays in all four countries.

Nordopera - The Sustainable Opera Artist

Opera performance

The music network Nordopera is part of Nordplusmusic, a cooperation of Nordic-Baltic music academies within the framework of the Nordplus programme. Ellinor Olmarken, soprano and graduate student and Jaroslaw Kaliski, assistant professor of musical interpretation. Both from Stockholm University of the Arts, Sweden.

Panel discussion and project presentations

Participating panelists:

Elina Lehtomäki, professor global education, University of Oulu (Finland)
Eyrún Eyþórsdóttir, assistant professor, University of Akureyri (Iceland). Project member of Nordcop
Pigga Keskitalo, professor University of Lapland (Finland). Project member of Saving our Shared Endangered Language through Collaboration

Project Nordcop: Nordplus Higher Education

A network cooperation on Nordplus applications and general issues related to police education and research. The last three years they have run a project focusing on best practice for minority recruitment. The current project aims to develop a module for police trainers with the aim of both improving the teachers knowledge on how to teach diversity and how to use the competences from a diverse student population in practical police work.

Project Saving our Shared Endangered Language through Collaboration: Nordplus Language

This project aims to enhance the situation of Sami language by helping to discuss and share experiences about joint concerns and best practices when teaching Sami in suburban context. It is a cooperation between the University of Lapland, and University of Helsinki, Umeå University and Arctic University of Norway. Higher education institutions who have worked with Sami language education for decades but need to build networks for collaboration in suburban contexts.