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Welcome to Sustainabilisation – the importance of sustainable entrepreneurship, with Mikael Botnen Diamant. Mikael Botnen Diamant is a sustainability expert, author, and educator. He has previous experience working with Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) and the Red Cross. In 2015, Mikael participated as an expert in the negotiations at the UN in New York that led to Agenda 2030 and the Global Goals for Sustainable Development. The theme of Mikael’s lecture is ‘sustainabilisation’ – a societal transformation as profound as urbanisation, globalisation, and digitalisation. Why are sustainability and

On August 21, from 12-15 (CET) the Interreg Aurora funded project SCABEAC is organizing a “Nordic Wood Construction Webinar” with speakers from Sweden, Norway and Finland. The webinar will cover topics like sustainability with conscious hospitality (with Wood Hotel, Bodö), how to make multistorey wooden apartment buildings financially worthwhile in Sweden as well as architectural design and logs in modern building in Finland. Read more about the “Nordic Wood Construction Webinar”  

The Interreg Aurora team wish you all a wonderful summer! As it is the season of summer holidays most of us are abscent during July and August, but you can always reach us on interregaurora@lansstyrelsen.se Please note that, due to lower staffing during summer times it might take longer to receive an answer but we will answer as soon as possible.

The two Interreg Aurora Steering Committees, for sub-area Sápmi and sub-area Aurora, have met for the fourth time in the funding period of 2021-2027. The meeting was held the 12-13 June 2024 in Bodø/Budejju/Bådåddjo. Eilen Zakariassen from Nordland fylkeskommune welcomed the Committees to the first European Capital of Culture north of the Arctic Circle and gave a presentation about Nordland, a thriving industrial and creative region. The Steering Committees approved 15 new projects in this fourth call for regular project applications. More than 9 million euro was allocated to cross-border

The European Commission has invited all Interreg Programmes to run a consultation with their stakeholders to get input for future programme periods. This is your opportunity to give your input to the future of the Interreg Aurora programme. Your input, together with the input from workshops, the consultation of Citizens and from the interviews run during the autumn, will be compiled to a report submitted to the European Commission in the end of the year 2024. Your input will form an important basis for the European Commission’s proposal on cross-border

This is an article by Interreg.no We often hear that we should promote our projects using “Storytelling” because it is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today. Yes, people are tired of the technical language we often use in reporting, and we do want to promote what we do in a fun and engaging way, but how do we do that? Our projects are complex, with multiple partners and many technical facts that are hard to explain to people who are not experts in that field.