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The network's primary objective is to localise Culture Action Europe’s (CAE) advocacy in the Nordic region by strengthening ties between Member States, EU institutions, and cultural organisations. It aims to build the Nordic cultural sector's capacity in policy and advocacy while raising awareness among Nordic Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) of working conditions and sustainability topics in the cultural and artistic sectors

Film for Change: Nordic-Baltic Network for Social Impact (Film4Change) aims to bring together documentary film festival organisers across the Nordic-Baltic region to share best practices, develop innovative tools, and collaborate on impactful strategies. By focusing on human rights and social advocacy, the network seeks to enhance the social influence of film festivals, foster meaningful partnerships, and engage audiences in driving social change through the power of documentary storytelling.

The purpose of the network is to meet and exchange practices and perspectives on art interventions unfolding in nursing home institutions including facilitation of co-creative relations with citizens living with dementia. We share experiences and visions of the transformative and innovative potential of artistic relations and connections within nursing home institutions and outline a joined strategy to expand institutional & societal understandings of dementia and practices of care through art.

WIFT-tech is a collective of talented women+ working behind the camera in the film and tv industry across the Nordic region. We aim to empower, support, inspire and celebrate female, trans, non-binary and gender fluid people working in camera & lighting, build a stronger and inclusive community across the nordic region, and lastly to create a unified platform to visualise and promote our work.

Back2work NORTH (B2w) is a long term collegial network that provides artistic exchange and knowledge development for artists in contemporary performance art across the Nordic region and Baltikum. Artists are invited to curate a program of workshops based on their most urgent needs in relation to their practice. The curated workshop program is open to all network participants and provides a collegial discourse and possibility to meet in curiosity.

To identify, exchange good practices, and develop qualitative contemporary performance concepts with artists and collectives for new linguistic and cultural contexts within the Nordic and Baltic region, and to establish a network for their future mobility.

The Network aims to establish a working dialogue between initiatives that address the precarity of material, social, and political conditions of artists and art workers in Baltic and Nordic countries. The Network aims to understand the complex reasons for precarity in the visual arts sector and to address this problem on shared practical grounds.

NAN is a network that brings together different stakeholders (Universities, artist-run spaces, residencies and private tech companies) aiming to increase the societal impact of creative technologies. We are focusing on research based technological innovation of instrument building, bringing to the limelight forgotten music and sound technologies, valuing its particularities, possibilities and new potentials and promoting sustainable use of technology by giving it a new life in new music.

The Nordic-Baltic Circus Alliances (Short-term Network 2025) is dedicated to fostering organizational development, with a focus on building and nurturing partnerships and collaborations among circus organizations across region. This initiative is designed to strengthen the overall Nordic-Baltic circus ecosystem, creating a more cohesive and supportive environment for its growth and sustainability.

The Hot Type Network aims to preserve Linotype machines and the intangible heritage of linecasting. Linotypes revolutionized printing, playing a crucial role in global literacy, news, and free speech. The network will pass the torch of preservation to younger generations through workshops and online meetups. Fostering collaboration to increase public awareness, we aim to engage a wider audience. It is a crucial opportunity to save this important piece of history.

In this Baltic-Nordic Network of Contemporary Puppetry we want to identify and strengthen our common resources; through research, discussion, experience exchange, arts events, training and other networking activities, promote the maximum realisation and development of today’s puppet theatre’s potential in the Baltics and the Nordic countries.

The smallest countries share similar needs in developing their art ecologies for which internationalisation is essential. GLEN joins existing resources to redefine cultural creation and circulation of their artists and culture workers abroad. Through in person gatherings, mentorship, and digital meetings – this network will continue to build knowledge and capacity of working internationally, utilising our diverse perspectives and resources to innovate and develop practice in the region.

The objective of the network is to strengthen the collaboration between school concert providers and prepare the application for the long-term network 2025-2027.

Long-term objectives will be defined with the help of short-term network funding.

The network maps out the societal challenges (e.g. promoting inclusion) in Nordic countries and defines development goals in order to support arts education in schools as well as enhances students’ wellbeing and the quality of school concerts.

The Heritage and Futures Network is a collaboration platform designed to foster discussions on the developmental trajectories of cultural heritage in both the near (+10 years) and distant future. At a time when geopolitical instability and crises intersect with the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence technologies, the network seeks to explore the potential that new technologies hold for cultural heritage management and how they can be leveraged to protect against potential threats.

In order to share their practices and knowledge network will unite organisations around Baltic Sea that work with community and civic society development using performing arts as a tool. This network will strengthen collaborations that have already started in Baltic Applied Theatre Network in 2022 and create new ones, bringing new partners together. Aim is to learn from each other in order to build strong, resilient and cohesive communities, which is important in the current political situation.

The project aims to achieve a dual goal: to assist Estonian, Finnish, and Swedish networks of creative residencies in developing sustainable organizational work models, and to establish a collaboration platform for organizers of artist-in-residence programs in these countries, promoting the sharing of best practices, facilitating exchanges, and stimulating collaborations within the Nordic-Baltic region.

Nordic Animation is a network consisting of leading animation studios in the Nordic region. We focus on connecting with and training of teams across the region. Exchange of knowledge among professionals is important when building up expertise. Professional networks ensure further efficiency and help develop our industry. And very importantly, help spread Nordic storytelling to kids all over the world. Main values for Nordic productions are diversity, tolerance, inclusion, and gender equality.

Nordic Ambitions is a mentorship program for theatre leaders in the Nordic region, initiated by Nordiskt Teaterledarråd in collaboration with The Nordic Culture Fund. The program develops the participants’ leadership skills and promotes networks between Nordic theatres.

Red Herring brings together artists and scientists across the Baltic Sea to address the intertwined ecological and societal changes affecting the shared marine environment. It aims to create a platform and methods for interdisciplinary collaborations that attend to the specificities of different island contexts, but also weave connections between local, regional and planetary scales. It focuses on research visits to each island hosted by the partners and the development of a long-term network.