Nordic co-operation

The nordic ministers of culture adopted a new strategy for nordic cultural co-operation 2013-2020 on 31 october 2012. the strategy emphasises five topics: the sustainable nordic region, the creative nordic region, the inter-cultural nordic region, the young nordic region and the digital nordic region. the new strategy is supplemented each year by a presidency programme for the culture sector. finland is the president of the nordic council of ministers in 2016. the programme, called water, nature and people, was prepared in 2015 and includes a separate sector programme for culture. the culture programme emphasises the digital, intercultural, sustainable and creative aspects of nordic co-operation. also a seminar titled re-shaping cultural policies organized in the programme, organized in co-operation with the unesco as a side event to unesco world press freedom day conference. its objective was to increase awareness of the significance of cultural freedom of expression’s diversity in sustainable development and cultural expression in the nordic  countries and discuss how these could be utilised in the implementation of the un’s new action programme of sustainable development (agenda 2030).a declaration of the nordic ministers of culture on the promotion of the diversity of cultural expression:http://www.norden.org/fi/pohjoismaiden-ministerineuvosto/ministerineuvostot/kulttuuriministerineuvosto-mr-k/julkilausumat/declaration-by-the-nordic-ministers-of-culture-on-promoting-diversity-of-cultural-expressions-and-artistic-freedom-in-a-digital-age