New Horizons 2012-2014 (KO482)
Funded by Kolarctic ENPI 2007-2013

Objective of the project

The aim of the project is to promote intensified cultural cross border cooperation: cultural management /entrepreneurship and artistic co-production between North West Russia and the northern scandinavia, in order to strengthen people-to-people contacts, mutual events and cultural identity building

Main activities

The project contained five sub-projects, all attempting to strengthen people-to-people contacts and intensify cross-border cooperation in their fields. - Barents Forum of Strategic Cultural Planning and Policy Implementation - Young Entrepreneurs for culture and the creative sector - Museum, cultural heritage and northern identity - X-Border 2013 (visual arts project) - Sound of Barents (musical sub-project)

Achievements

All of the major outputs of the different sub-projects, exhibitions, seminars, work-shops, concerts, training programs etc have given successful outputs: they have provided a more vivid cross border cooperation, proven significant to the target groups and increased knowledge of cultural identities on the region.