Events

Around 100 upper secondary students and teachers from Norrbotten (Sweden) and Northern Finland will gather in Luleå on April 16–18 to participate in an innovation competition with the theme of industrial transition and societal change in Northern Sweden! The event is part of the Interreg Aurora funded project Aurora Entrepreneurialis project, aimed at developing entrepreneurial culture, sustainable entrepreneurship, and cross-border cooperation in the region’s high schools and vocational institutions. Participants will work in groups consisting of both Swedish and Finnish members. Each group will develop an idea, which they will

Welcome to a webinar about how to apply funding from Interreg Aurora and Finnish national co-financing from Lapin Liitto for cross-border cooperation projects. 17 May 2024, 13.00-15.00 (EET) on Zoom Tips and tricks for writing a good application Information about upcoming calls Please note, the webinar will focus on general tips for successful applications. We cannot address questions specific related to specific applications. The webinar will be held in Finnish. For more information and registration, please read the invitation Interreg Aurora webinar 17.5.2024

Interreg Aurora projects, how does financing from EU benefit your regions and the citizens? Europe in my Region is an annual EU-wide campaign to show citizens the EU-funded projects in the regions they live in. This is achieved through involving citizens to explore EU projects with own eyes. Tillväxtverket coordinates the campaign in Sweden during 2-9 May 2024. The campaign involves projects inviting visitors to take part in their work and results in various ways. It can be, for example: – Seminars – Lectures – Guided tours – Exhibitions – Movies and

The Interreg Aurora funded project Aurora Entrepreneurialis invites you to their Teacher Training. The course is focused on three key themes: 1) entrepreneurial culture in schools 2) sustainable entrepreneurship in education 3) cross-border collaboration. There will be 12 sessions, each session will contain recorded lectures with experts, followed by digital seminars. Sometimes there will be some additional materials, like articles or additional videos to watch.  Session 4: Social media and digitalization in entrepreneurship/Perttu Pölönen 1/3/2024, 08:15 – 09:15 CET Sweden, 09:15 – 10:15 EET Finland Read more about the sessions

How will climate-smart food production look like in northern Sweden and Finland in the future? How can local food producers benefit from new ideas and create better profitability? How can we help each other across borders to create a more favourable situation for food producers in the North? The Interreg Aurora funded project The ClimateFood project is organising a webinar about climate smart food production on 15 February at 13-16 Finnish time / 12-14 Swedish time. Join the webinar digitally via Teams or physically at one of our project hotspots in

Interreg Aurora is together with Pohjois-Karjalan Maakuntaliitto and Kainuun liitto arranging a webinar about the funding possibilities for cross-border cooperation. You will also get information about Finnish national co-financing from Lapin liitto. The European Commission has approved the enlargement and increased funding of the Interreg Aurora Programme on the 20 december 2023. Two new Finnish regions, Kainuu and Pohjois-Karjala are now officially included in the programme area. Welcome to join the webinar! Here you can find more information and registration Interreg Aurora Info 9.2.2024

Are you planning to visit Jokkmokks marknad? Join us at Församlingshemmet, Thursday 1 February 12.00-13.00 (CET) 2024. Meet our Programme Officers for sub-area Sápmi and learn more about with kind of cross-border projects Interreg Aurora can fund. You will also meet the ongoing project Girku SOS that developes a service for the Sami population who need someone to talk to anonymously about life struggeling matters. No registration needed. Welcome!

The Interreg Aurora funded project Aurora Entrepreneurialis invites you to a webinar about sustainable entrepreneurship from an educational perspective the 24 January 2024 13:30-14:30 (CET). Participant registration can be done here: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=Z5rIXCn6VkOvXfQ2q8fCGxnlq73LDmFOobFl1kjOVc9UM0NFM0tMQTZRNDgzNzlTRzc5WVVGVDdGNCQlQCN0PWcu¨ By responding the questionnaire, participant will be added to the course mailing list and will receive the information and seminar links directly to her/his email. The pre-material from the specialist can be watched here (with subtitles in FIN, SWE or ENG): FIN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syukU-iDmhQ SWE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyrcN4J0rAI&t=10s ENG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yI2gN1XU0o&t=2s

Welcome to the conference Building Arctic Europe 6-7 February 2024, Vetenskapens hus in Luleå The conference is a collaboration between LTU Business and Norrbotten Chamber of Commerce and the Interreg Aurora funded project Sustainable Construction and Built Environment in Arctic Climate (SCABEAC). The aim of the conference is to arrange a meeting place for small and medium-sized companies in the construction industry in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland – with technical visits, B2B matchmaking and interesting talks with the latest from researchers and industry. Increased cross-border cooperation creates new business opportunities,