Culture and youth
Promoting the shared culture and values of the Nordic countries has been one of our primary objectives since we opened our office in Tallinn in early 1991. Much has been said in Estonia about how the people here feel like a Nordic nation. And indeed Estonians do have a lot in common with their northern neighbours, including many shared values – but at the same time there is always something new and exciting to discover in the familiar.
We have organised some very successful festivals – shining the spotlight on literature, poetry, cinema and more – as well as finding partners, bringing in performers from the Nordic countries and providing information about Nordic and Baltic support schemes.
Nordic Library Week, which brings a little light into the dark winter nights of early November, has become one of our most eagerly awaited annual events. We have also turned more attention in recent years to areas in which our cultures and creative economies overlap.
Occurred events
The project piloted in 2015 and by 2016 developed further, yielding a whole series of writer visits in Estonia.
Project events
The first Nordic-Baltic Literature Forum was held in 2013.
The exhibition was on view from September 27 until January 5, 2020, at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design
The Public Programme of Guðrun & Guðrun is here.
The event took place from November 29 to 30, 2018, in Ida-Viru County.
The event programme is here.
The literary mass “Eha Valgus” took place in 2023.
The event programme is siin.
The Creativity Forums have been held since 2012.
This is one great youth creativity festival at school – C.A.M.P. (Creative Action – Meaningful Performance) that for the first time took place in Pärnu, Estonia in 2013.
Nordic cooperation organisations and institutions
- Nordic Library Week
- Nordic Culture Point
- Nordic Culture Fund
- Nordic Film & TV Fund
- TrustNordisk
- Nordjobb
- NordForsk
- Nordic Institute for Advanced Training in Occupational Health
- The Nordic Association of University Administrators
- Nordic Innovation
- Top-level Research Initiative
- Nordic Energy Research
- Nordic Genetic Resource Center
- Nordic Centre for Welfare and Social Issues
- Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law
- Nordic Energy Solutions
- Nordic Institute of Dental Materials
- Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research