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    Dialogue for sustainability in the Nordics

    about the project

    Timeout! Dialogue for sustainability in the Nordics is a Nordplus horizontal project, starting in 2024. Through dialogue, we can create trust, strengthen democracy, and bring in the voices that are rarely heard in our discussions. At the same time, we can strengthen our Nordic societies to face future challenges such as climate change and an increasingly aging population structure. Timeout is a new way to generate and have constructive discussions.

    The project brings together students and teacher educators from the Nordics to work with sustainability issues in the classroom. As a work tool during the entire study will be used Timeout method, developed in Finland under the leadership of Finland's Jubilee Fund Sitra.

    Project activities are carried out both online and in workshops where the participants work together for two days and produce teaching material for constructive discussions in the Nordic classrooms.

    The purpose of the project is to

    • engage the participants in both social, cultural and ecological sustainability issues
    • deepen the knowledge and ability of teacher educators and future teachers to deal with these issues in the classrooms as well as
    • produce both physical and digital teaching material around these themes and develop models for how the Timeout method can be used in the classroom.

    Both researchers, teacher educators and students as well as third sector actors and experts in the field are involved in the project. The aim is particularly to increase the scope of the project through new and existing networks, strengthen the ability to solve common challenges through cross-sector cooperation and thereby contribute to a sustainable and integrated Nordic region.

    More information about the project (in Swedish)
    The project is coordinated by Hanaholmen – the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre and is carried out in collaboration with Timeout Foundation, Voksenåsen, Biskops Arnö, Fondet for Dansk-Norsk Samarbejde, UCN Aalborg, and Dalarna University. The project is funded by Nordplus Horizontal.

    Additional information

    Tiinaliisa Granholm

    Project Manager (art and culture, courses)

    +358 (0)45 120 7818

    tiinaliisa.granholm@hanaholmen.fi