The Baltic Sea Region Cultural Pearls is opening its second call for applications, starting the search for the cities to be awarded the Cultural Pearls 2025 title. BSR Cultural Pearls is co-financed by Interreg Baltic Sea Region. BSR Cultural Pearls is a title for smaller towns, cities and municipalities that provides awarded candidates a programme…
The programme of the Culture for Resilience Forum 2024 on 7-8 May in Jakobstad/Pietarsaari, Finland, is being finalized. The forum will offer a mix of keynote speakers, discussions, and mini hackathons with a strong emphasis on participation and crowdsourcing of ideas. Registration deadline for the forum is 15 April. The Culture for Resilience Forum 2024, an…
On 1 March, the city of Kiel in Germany was the first of the four “BSR Cultural Pearl 2024” (Jakobstad/Pietarsaari – FIN; Svendborg – DEN, Rujiena – LAT) to be officially awarded its title. The local ceremony coincided with and thereby posed the opening to Kiel’s first event as Cultural Pearl, a barcamp titled ‘Kieler…
On Friday, 1 March, the BSR Cultural Pearls 2024 local award ceremony will take place in Kiel to create momentum in the community and highlight culture-driven activities that the city will carry out in the title year to engage citizens, foster a sense of belonging and trust, and thereby fortifying community strength and social resilience. …
On February 21st, the project partner Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture (the NDPC) presented the network of the BSR Cultural Pearls with the freshly created innovation seed money initiative collaboration toolkit.Additionally, as one of the ambassadors for the creative and cultural sectors (CCS) within the project, the NDPC has compiled three core reasons why you…
Registration is now open for the Culture for Resilience Forum 2024 in Jakobstad, Finland on 7-8 May 2024, which will focus on the role of culture in enhancing societal resilience and community strength. Pre-registration is now open. The Culture for Resilience Forum 2024, an event which will focus on the role of culture in societal resilience…
An international jury has announced the cities awarded the BSR Cultural Pearls title for the year 2024. The municipalities of Svendborg (Denmark), Kiel (Germany), Jakobstad (Finland) and Rūjiena (Latvia) were chosen from among 12 candidates from the countries around the Baltic Sea Region. These cities prepared Culture and Social Resilience Action Plans aimed at making…
The competition for the BSR Cultural Pearls title 2024 continues. After pre-selection, all twelve municipalities that applied for the title are qualified for the next step, which is the development of a Cultural & Resilience Action Plan (CuReAP). This phase runs from 25 October 2023 to 16 November 2023. During this time, candidates will develop…
The BSR Cultural Pearls 2024 title competition is now underway, following its pilot launch in early August 2023 and the invitation extended to smaller cities, municipalities, and regions to apply for the title. For the inaugural “BSR Cultural Pearls” title, applications have been received from a total of 12 municipalities across the Baltic Sea Region,…
The partnership within the project “Baltic Sea Region Cultural Pearls for more resilient cities and regions” co-financed by the Interreg BSR programme has launched a pilot of the BSR Cultural Pearls programme and a title for 2024. Applications for participation in the pilot can be submitted by September 8. The aim of BSR Cultural Pearls…
PROJECT LEAD PARTNER:
Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat Felix Schartner Giertta, Project Coordinator+ 46 73 026 73 12
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