Nordic Culture Point is a new cultural institute located in Finland with operations in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The institute results from the fusion of The Nordic Institute in Finland (Nifin) and the former Nordic Culture Point. Both institutions will continue their activities as usual but under a joint umbrella.
The new organisation's primary objective is to build interest in the Nordic region and Nordic co-operation in Finland, and administer two cultural support programmes: The Culture and Art Programme and The Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture. The institute provides a point of contact for Nordic cultural cooperation and information about that cooperation throughout the Nordic region.
The Nordic region, or “Norden” in Scandinavian, comprises of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden as well as the autonomous areas of Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the Åland Islands. The total land area of the region, with a total of 26 million inhabitants, is approximately 3.3 million square kilometers. This is about one third of the size of USA.
The political system is very alike in the Nordic countries. All countries are parliamentarian democracies. Denmark, Norway and Sweden are monarchies whilst Finland and Iceland are republics.
One of Nifin's main goals is to provide people in Finland with knowledge about the languages spoken in the Nordic region and to spread knowledge about the Finnish language to the other Nordic countries.
Welcome to the Nordic Library in the very heart of Helsinki run by Nordic Culture Point under the Nordic Council of Ministers (NMR).
The library offers a wide range of publications, books, magazines and newspapers in the Nordic languages that are Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Faroese, Greenlandic, Icelandic and Saami.
Here you can also find fresh brochures in English about current Nordic issues published by NMR concerning, for instance, education, culture, environment and energy policy.
Nordic Culture Point arranges cultural programs and seminars which are presented on the home page as well as in a printed brochure in Swedish and Finnish twice a year.
Most of the events are public meant for everybody interested in Nordic culture and they are mostly free of charge. They consist of literary events, musical performances, or theatre or film events, as well as mini-seminars, discussions and lectures on current themes and issues.
