Hanaholmen kultur

Hanaholmen Kultur is a networking programme for Swedish and Finnish cultural managers working in small and medium-size municipalities.

What is Hanaholmen Kultur?

Hanaholmen Kultur is a networking programme for Swedish and Finnish cultural managers working in small and medium-size municipalities. The aim of the programme is to inspire and provide cultural managers with insight and knowledge, enabling them to work with local cultural policy based on lessons learned from two neighbouring countries. Sweden and Finland share many similarities and have a common interest in developing municipal cultural activities.

Hanaholmen Kultur was created to promote professional networks and personal contacts between cultural players. The idea is that the bilateral meetings will help improve the local cultural policy in both countries.

The programme was initiated and funded by the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Foundation and be active from 2022 to 2027. The programme runs for one year at a time and consists of two two-day modules, one in Sweden and the other in Finland.

About the programme

The programme is based on flexibility, which enables the participants’ needs and wishes to control the content
The programme consists of inspiring talks, customised study visits and profitable interaction with colleagues in Sweden and Finland. The topics discussed include local cooperation, accessibility, digitisation, political governance, cultural funding and internationalisation.
Between eight and ten participants attend from each country.
The programme is conducted in English to enable broad participation. Participants can ask questions in Swedish and Finnish and talk in any language during the breaks.

Programme 2025

Module 1 will be held at the Sigtuna Foundation in Sigtuna, Sweden, 19-21 May 2025.
Module 2 will be held at Hanaholmen in Espoo, Finland, 8-10 October 2025.

After the pilot programme, we received a very good average rating for Hanaholmen Kultur as a whole: four out of five possible. When rating its usefulness, participants gave the programme a five out of five.
Alfiero Zanotto, Project Manager, Sweden.

Apply for Hanaholmen Kultur 2025

Are you responsible for cultural activities in a small or medium-sized municipality? Do you need inspiration and knowledge, and to exchange experiences with others in the same role? Are you interested in the nature of working with municipal cultural issues in Sweden and Finland? Would you like to be part of a bilateral network of colleagues? Then Hanaholmen Kultur is the programme for you.

Apply here in Swedish Apply here in Finnish

Apply no later than 20.1.2025.

Additional information

Aino Kostiainen

Programme Coordinator

+358 (0)40 551 9933

aino.kostiainen@hanaholmen.fi