NordPlus

Nordic and Baltic educational cooperation starts with Nordplus!

Nordplus is the Nordic Council of Ministers' most important programme in the area of lifelong learning. More than 10,000 people in the Nordic and Baltic region benefit from it every year.

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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 in the Baltic and Nordic regions.

Main objectives of Nordplus 2012 – 2016:

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