Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture - NDPC

EVENT - save the date! 🗓 We are thrilled to be co-hosting the Cultural Mobility Forum in 2025! 🤩 In the wake of the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, young and emerging artists, along with cultural professionals, have encountered significant challenges in their career development. 📊 There is limited data on those who may have shifted their career directions, prompting important questions: by 2025, who will truly be ready to pursue an artistic career amid such deep uncertainties? How do factors like digital transformation, mobility justice, climate issues, and global instability shape their willingness to follow an international career path? 🤔 The registrations for the Forum will be open in January 2025! 👉 Learn more about the Forum: https://lnkd.in/ebrsd9h3 --- The forum is organised by On the Move, a network organisation we are a member of, co-hosted by us, Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture - NDPC and created in partnerhsip with VSIA Rigas cirks and HowlRound Theatre Commons. The Forum is co-funded by the European Union.

HIGHLIGHTS ✨ Yesterday twenty-four talented creative professionals from diverse disciplines completed the Creative GPS Training Program in Latvia! 🏆 Designed specifically for talented individuals facing challenges in securing sustainable opportunities within the creative and cultural industries, the program provided targeted mentorship, market insights, and strategies to overcome professional obstacles. 🚀 The participants, representing fields such as design, music, visual arts, and multimedia, were equipped with the tools needed to redefine their careers, and turn their expertise into viable opportunities. This milestone underscores the program’s mission to support underemployed creative professionals, empowering them to discover a meaningful path in their industries! A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has helped to make this programme possible! Our partners - Tallinna Ettevõtlusinkubaator / Tallinn Business Incubator and Taide- ja kulttuurialan ammattijärjestö TAKU ry, Latvian program participant coordinator Kristina Virse, seminar leaders Katriina Haikala, Ilze Švarcbaha, Elsa Ervasti, and Tiina Saar-Veelmaa We are glad our participants experienced the international bootcamp together with participants from Estonia and Finland! We appreciate all the amazing sessions we had: Laura Lindsberg, keynote on networking, inspirational stories from Marko Ala and Berit Kaschan, workshops from Jenni Sainio, Krista Petäjäjärvi, Riitta Aittokallio, and Kristina Virse! 🤔 What's next? In 2025, we will work on the open-access toolkit for creative professionals, to share the teachings, reflections and best-cases coming out of the program! 👉 Don't miss the updates on open-access toolkit, subscribe to our newsletter! https://lnkd.in/dZmh_mSg --- The project “CreativeGPS: Creative Professionals Navigating the Job Market: Skill Building and Transnational Peer Learning for Added Agency” is co-funded by the European Union Interreg Central Baltic programme.

ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 We are celebrating cities building social resilience through culture! It is time to announce BSR Cultural Pearls 2025! We congratulate the winners: 🇸🇪 Helsingborg (Sweden) 🇱🇹 Alytus District (Lithuania) 🇪🇪 Peipsiääre (Estonia) 🇵🇱 Płock (Poland) 🇫🇮 Kaskinen- Kaskö (Finland) 🇱🇻 Smiltene (Latvia) What is a Cultural Pearl? BSR Cultural Pearls is a title given to small and medium size towns and cities in the Baltic Sea Region that creatively use culture to strengthen their communities, to build stronger connections and increase trust among citizens. Learn more about it here: https://lnkd.in/d4sdFEXt #bsrculturalpearls #2025CulturalPearls

NEW CIRCULAR PILOTS DEVELOPING 🌿 Last week, our colleagues Kristīne Lipiņa and dace resele were here ♻️ It was a packed few days! 👉 Learn more about the event: https://lnkd.in/dDUC7eiU

EVENT 💻 Join the CultureAndHealth Platform online launch event! Are you an artist working with well-being topics? Or a health care professional, wondering how culture and art could create a lasting impact? Join us on December 16, and we will tell you more about the CultureAndHealth Platform and its opportunities! 👉 Register for the event here: https://lnkd.in/d8x_GWSN Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture - NDPC is one of the 16 partners of CultureAndHealth Platform, and the project is co-funded by the European Union.

ART AND ENERGY WASTE 💚 How can art, culture, and creative actors engage citizens in finding new solutions to reduce energy consumption? 📻 Check out Duncan Geere's work: it is currently broadcasting live! On Standby is a piece of sound art designed to be listened to while sleeping. Supported by the CCI4change project, it connects energy use with sonification art. "When we sleep, our electronic devices lie awake. Unlike humans and other animals, where periods of activity need to be interspersed with periods of rest and switching off, the interconnected web of electronic devices that we share our homes with continues to hum and buzz with energy, all through the night. Now, you’re about to hear what that sounds like." Discover all the pilots: https://lnkd.in/gBC6rk9E -- The total budget of the CCI4change project is 470,000 EUR, of which 80%, or 380 000 EUR, is funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme and the remaining 20% by the project partners.

NEW BEGINNINGS 🚀 Last week we went to Vienna for the kick-off meetings of two projects as the continuation of CultureForHealth movement! One of them was CARE, and the other one - CultureAndHealth Platform. Over the next four years, CultureAnd Health Platform will focus on empowering emerging European artists working at the intersection of culture, health, care, and social sectors. Co-funded by the European Union, the project plans to: 🔶 Provide financial support for projects that bridge culture and health, 🔶 Support and build artists' capacities, 🔶 Enable international mobility, 🔶 Increase visibility and networking opportunities. The platform will also raise awareness about the vital role culture plays in health and well-being. Stay tuned for calls for proposals, training opportunities, and showcasing events! Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture - NDPC responsibilities include communication, branding, and digital platform development. The project is led by Culture Action Europe. What's next? Join the project launch on December 16 at 2pm CET on Zoom to learn more about the upcoming opportunities! 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/dGrK7X8a 📷 Ingo Schrader Many thanks to Tanzquartier Wien for hosting the meeting! We look forward to collaborating with partners from 14 countries - Culture Action Europe, EUREGHA - European Regional and Local Health Authorities, ARTS for HEALTH AUSTRIA, Pôle Culture & Santé en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Kompetenscentrum för kultur och hälsa, Cavan Arts, Healing Culture Network e. V., Kunstloc Brabant, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Centrul Cultural Clujean, Društvo Asociacija, RED NOSES International, ARC Research & Consultancy, Urban Culture Institute – City of Weaves, and Associazione Culturale Oltre APS.

OUR HIGHLIGHTS - CreativeGPS training program bootcamp ✨ Last weekend 68 creative professionals from Latvia, Estonia, and Finland came together to spend two exciting days in CreativeGPS bootcamp in Tallinn! Bootcamp was dedicated to networking - an activity that can help boost your career on enormous terms, if used wisely! As the keynote speaker Laura Lindsberg said - networking is not about collecting contacts, it is about planting relationships! We put networking into practice through a series of guided exercises, and participants formed peer groups to share their reflections. Our creative professionals had an exclusive opportunity to hear so many inspiring stories and workshops to get a fresh perspective on navigating their careers! Tallinna Ettevõtlusinkubaator / Tallinn Business Incubator facilitated entrepreneurial stories session, where the speakers were: 🎤 Marko Ala, the founder of Oot Oot Design Studio. it focuses on designing and producing upholstered furniture and beds, with all products crafted in Estonia. 🎤 Berit Kaschan, an Estonian poet, literary scholar, and literary therapist. She currently runs a company called Biblionaut, which offers writing therapy services and group sessions. We did not only listen but deep-dived into particular topics and reflected on a deeper level. Our amazing workshop leaders and their sessions were: 🎯 Jenni Sainio "A value-driven creative career? Reflections on the career choices and values behind them." 🎯 Krista Petäjäjärvi "Cross-sectoral collaboration: Why and how to partner up with professionals outside culture & creative sector? 🎯 Riitta Aittokallio "Balancing act: strategies for success in juggling a multifaceted creative career." 🎯 Kristina Virse "Develop your pitch!" We are thankful to our partner organisations - Tallinna Ettevõtlusinkubaator / Tallinn Business Incubator and Taide- ja kulttuurialan ammattijärjestö TAKU ry for making this possible! Many thanks to Estonian Business School for being our hosts! What's next? CreativeGPS training program will have final events in December, but in spring we will work toward an open access tool for creative professionals to coordinate their careers! Stay tuned! Photos: Kristina Virse --- CreativeGPS is a training program for seasoned or aspiring creatives in Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) from Latvia, Estonia, and Finland, which takes place from October to December 2024 both online and on-site.  The CreativeGPS project is 80% funded by the Interreg Central Baltic programme.

CARE - CULTURE FOR MENTAL HEALTH 🎨 We're starting a new journey! 🚀 This week we went to Vienna, Austria to start the work on CARE project. Led by Centrul Cultural Clujean, the project will explore the intersection of arts, culture and mental health for a healthier future! Operating across five countries, CARE will directly engage over 1,500 individuals in participatory art activities, train more than 600 professionals, and raise awareness among an estimated one million people. Through innovative policy recommendations, toolkits, and advocacy, the project aspires to leave a lasting legacy on health and cultural policies in Europe. Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture - NDPC is one of the 7 partners contributing to this direction of development. The project is funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union. 👉 Learn more about our plans: https://lnkd.in/dnaZxJ2b We CARE, what about you? #CultureForMentalHealth #CARE 📷 ©BarbaraMair_AfHA We are thankful to Kulturhaus Brotfabrik and ZOOM Kindermuseum Wien for being our hosts! Centrul Cultural Clujean | European Festivals Association (EFA) | Društvo Asociacija | Culture Action Europe | Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture - NDPC | ARTS for HEALTH AUSTRIA | Bozar

NEWS 📢 This week our colleague Krista Petäjäjärvi went to InnoCulture conference in Gdansk, Poland, to talk about the role of Arts in Innovation! 🎨💡 We are thankful to EUSBSR Policy Area Culture for the opportunity to share our knowledge and contribute to the development of the cultural sector in the Baltic Sea Region!