Project Catalogue
Project catalogue
The Norwegian
Barents Secretariat
2007
Contents
Introduction 3
Culture/Welfare 4
Competence/Education 11
Indigenous peoples 15
Economy/Infrastructure 18
Environment/Health 22
Introduction
The Barents Cooperation was established on 11 January 1993. The Ministers of Foreign Affairs from the member countries Norway, Sweden, Russia and Finland, and representatives from the regional level signed the Organisation Agreements for the Barents Council (minister level) and the Regional Council (regional level). The Barents Region includes Arkhangelsk and Murmansk Oblasts, the Republic of Karelia, the Republic of Komi and the Nenets Autonomous Area in Russia, the counties of Lappland, Norra Österbotten and Kainuu in Finland, the counties of Norrbotten and Västerbotten in Sweden, and the counties of Troms, Nordland and Finnmark in Norway.
The Barents Secretariat in Kirkenes opened in October 1993. Effective 1 January 1999, the Secretariat is organised as an inter-municipal company, owned by the three northernmost Norwegian counties of Nordland, Troms and Finnmark. The company’s Board has three members, one from each of the three counties. In addition, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development each have an observer in the Board.
The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has placed regional funds at the disposal of the Barents Secretariat. The Secretariat gives financial support to the Norwegian-Russian Joint Venture Project in the Barents Region, or to Norwegian and Russian participation in multilateral projects in the region. In 2007 support were given within 5 different priority areas: culture/welfare, competence/education, indigenous peoples, economy/infrastructure and environment/health. In addition, the Barents Secretariat administered a fund for multilateral youth projects in the Barents Region, and furthermore, a fund for health and social welfare projects. Projects which received grants from these funds are described in separate catalogues.
In order to receive a grant from the Barents Secretariat, a project must be a co-operation initiative between a Norwegian and a Russian partner. It is considered to be a positive feature if there are also Swedish and Finnish participation in the project, but the grant from the Barents Secretariat can only be spent on covering the Norwegian and Russian participation. The Barents Secretariat’s grants should mainly be spent on activities that are carried out on Russian side of the Barents Region. Activities that are carried out only on Norwegian side are given lower priority.
This project catalogue contains information about all larger projects which received support from the Barents Secretariat in 2007. The application sum for all these projects exceeded NOK 200.000, and the final decision on each grant was taken by the Barents Secretariat’s board of directors.
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Culture/Welfare
731001 Norwegian-Russian literary co-operation. Part 2.
Troms County Library has established a co-operation with the National Library in the Republic of Komi and Archangelsk oblast library for children and youth. The three libraries will each present two regional writers, and make an exhibition about them. The aim of the project is to present literature and writers and to strengthen the cultural co-operation, but also to exchange knowledge between the countries. Through this project one wishes to increase the number of foreign literary translations in the countries.
Starting date: 01.06.2006
Closing date: 31.12.2007
Priority area: Kultur / Velferd
Geographical area: The Republic of Komi
Project owner: Troms Fylkesbibliotek
Contact person: Ellen Østgård
Address: Postboks 6600
Postal code: 9296
Place: TROMSØ
Phone: 77788224
Fax: 77623350
E-mail:
Project participant(s): Nasjonalbiblioteket i Republikken Komi,
Arkhangelsk Fylkesbibliotek for barn og unge
Total budget: 365000 NOK
Grant from the Barents Secretariat: 150000 NOK
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731002 The High North’s youth symphony orchestra
Youth – age 12 till 22 – from the northern parts of Finland, Norway Russia and Sweden will build a high level youth symphony orchestra, inspire and be inspired, develop network socially and musically among the young people. The first year it will be in Tromsø. There are four gatherings each year for three years.
Starting date: 01.04.2007
Closing date: 01.07.2010
Priority area: Kultur / Velferd
Geographical area: Archangelsk oblast
Project owner: Tromsø Kulturskole
Contact person: Ulla Hansen
Address: Krognessveien 33
Postal code: 9006
Place: TROMSØ
Fax: 77693320
Project participant(s): Norsk Kulturskoleråd, Troms og Svalbard,
Tromsø Kulturskole, Barents Region Music
School no 1 Arkhangelsk
Total budget: 1224000 NOK
Grant from the Barents Secretariat: 300000 NOK
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731003 Barents Football Academy
The project aims at recruiting young football talents from Northwest Russia to Sweden and Norway through the "Barents Football Academy". Testing and selection of candidates will be done in Russia and the talents will take part in a talent development program in Tromsø and Boden. There is an aim to recruit the talents into the respective teams when the programs are finished. The project also includes an exchange of coach competence between the partners.
Starting date: 01.02.2007
Closing date: 31.03.2007
Priority area: Kultur / Velferd
Geographical area: Russian part of the Barents Region
Project owner: Tromsø Idrettslag
Contact person: Sigurd Larsen
Address: Postboks 525
Postal code: 9255
Place: TROMSØ
Fax: 77697991
Project participant(s): Tromsø Idrettslag, Bodens BK, Archangel
Regional Football Federation,Murmansk
Administration Sport Committee,OOO Murmansk
Consulting Group
Total budget: 3600000 NOK
Grant from the Barents Secretariat: 150000 NOK
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731004 Ordkalotten- Tromsø International Literature Festival 2007
For the 8th time ”Ordkalotten – Tromsø International Literature Festival will be arranged in Tromsø in the period 26.09-01.10.2007. This time the festival has chosen the High North as its focal theme. The festival will be visited by Russian contemporary authors who are translated into Norwegian, and Norwegian contemporary authors who are translated into Russian. The festival wishes to emphasise the literature and the authors’ role in the development in the future development of High North. A parallel programme will also be carried out in Kirkenes.
Starting date: 26.09.2007
Closing date: 01.10.2007
Priority area: Kultur / Velferd
Geographical area: Russian part of the Barents Region
Project owner: Tromsø internasjonale litteraturfestival
Contact person: Hilde Kat. Eriksen
Address: Postboks 539
Postal code: 9256
Place: TROMSØ
Phone: +474795834863
E-mail:
Project participant(s): En rekke russiske samtidsforfattere,
forfatterforbundene i NV-Russland
Total budget: 2100000 NOK
Grant from the Barents Secretariat: 250000 NOK
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731005 Reforms and measures in the housing sector
The Norwegian State Housing Bank applies for support for the implementation of a 2-year project on housing cooperation with the Murmansk Oblast administration, as well as the Murmansk city administration, the Paritet Associaton and the the NBBL. The main objective is to assist with Norwegian experiences in finding solutions for management and maintenance of housing estates, outside park areas and general living conditions. The project also aims at establishing good connections between Norwegian and Russian city planners, architects and entrepeneurs.
Starting date: 01.01.2007
Closing date: 31.12.2008
Priority area: Kultur / Velferd
Geographical area: Murmansk oblast
Project owner: Husbanken
Contact person: Lene Ragnhild Edvardsen
Address: Postboks 480
Postal code: 9615
Place: HAMMERFEST
Fax: 78427410
E-mail:
Project participant(s): Murmansk Oblast administration (avdelingen
for bygg of boligkommunal sektor), NBBL,
Murmansk byadministrasjon, Sherpa Konsult,
Foreningen Paritet
Total budget: 1800000 NOK
Grant from the Barents Secretariat: 175000 NOK
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731006 Sports co-operation in the Barents Region
The Norwegian part of the Barents Sport Program apply for funding to continue and develop the cooperation in sport within the Barents Region to become a better tool for:
* Developing the quality of sports in the region
* increasing the exchange of athletes, trainers and leaders
* building tolerance and cultural understanding among the inhabitants of the region
The main target group will be young people in the age between 15 to 25 years.
Starting date: 01.01.2007
Closing date: 31.12.2007
Priority area: Kultur / Velferd
Geographical area: Russian part of the Barents Region
Project owner: NIF Barentsutvalget
Contact person: Hans P. Ludvigsen
Address: Aspmyra Stadion
Postal code: 8039
Place: BODØ
Phone: 75505300
Fax: 75711425
Project participant(s): Sportskommiteen i Murmansk, Norbottens
Idrottsforbund og Kalottidrotten i Finland.
Total budget: 748000 NOK
Grant from the Barents Secretariat: 230000 NOK
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731007 The Varanger Festival – festival choir
The Varanger Festival will create a joint concert programme with the participation of the Amadej Choir from Murmansk and 30 choir singers from the Varanger region. Through the project, there will be held 3 concerts in Norway and 2 concerts in Russia.
Starting date: 01.03.2007
Closing date: 01.12.2007
Priority area: Kultur / Velferd
Geographical area: Murmansk oblast
Project owner: Varangerfestivalen
Contact person: Kjell Magne Stålsett
Address: Postboks 356
Postal code: 9811
Place: VADSØ
Phone: 78953120
Fax: 78951490
Project participant(s): Varangerfestivalen, Amadeuskoret
Total budget: 605000 NOK
Grant from the Barents Secretariat: 200000 NOK
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731008 Norwegian-Russian cultural school co-operation with participation at the music festival in Petrozavodsk in October 2007
8 - 13 October the orchestra Helgeland Blåsemusikk, which consists of 35 persons, will og to Karelia to participate in the international music "Zolotaja rovnitza". In addition to individual concerts, the orchestra will play together with Russian professional musicians and cultural school pupils in a symphony orchestra. One of the project’s aims is to invite musicians and pupils to differents festivals in Helgeland in the future.
Starting date: 01.01.2007
Closing date: 14.10.2007
Priority area: Kultur / Velferd
Geographical area: The Republic of Karelia
Project area: Helgeland Blåsemusikk
Contact person: Jon Ervik
Address: Samfunnshuset
Postal code: 8646
Place: KORGEN
Phone: 90857288
Fax: 75197150
E-mail:
Project participant(s): Helgeland Blåsemusikk (HBM), Petrozavodsk
Kulturskole
Total budget: 1057500 NOK
Grant from the Barents Secretariat: 150000 NOK
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731009 Crossing Borders
Kiowato will arrange 3 workshops with dance lessons and performances in Murmansk in the period 21.06.07 – 25.06.07, in Porsanger in the period 25.06.07.- 28.06.07 and in Askim in the period 01.07.07 – 08.07.07. The target group for the workshops are young Barents people who are interested in dance. This is year two in a two-year co-operation project.
Starting date: 01.10.2006
Closing date: 01.09.2007
Priority area: Kultur / Velferd
Geographical area: Murmansk oblast
Project owner: Porsanger kommune/ Klubb Kiowato
Contact person: Sussi Meszaros
Address: Rådhuset
Postal code: 9712
Place: LAKSELV
Fax: 78461268
E-mail:
Project participant(s): Kiowato, Ungdomskomité Murmansk by
administrasjon
Total budget: 320310 NOK
Grant from the Barents Secretariat: 150000 NOK
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731010 Music co-operation between Musikk I Finnmark and the Murmansk Philharmonic
Musikk i Finnmark has a binding co-operation with the Murmansk Philharmonic with the aim to develop relations through productions that involve professional musicians in Norway and Russia. The institutions will co-operate on at least 10 different projects annually in a 3-year period.
The co-operation is base don 4 main priority areas:
1. Kollektivo klassik – chamber concerts in Murmansk oblast and Finnmark county
2. Orchestra productions
3. Rythmical music/jazz
4. Choir co-operation
Starting date: 10.02.2007
Closing date: 31.12.2007
Priority area: Kultur / Velferd
Geographical area: Murmansk oblast
Project owner: Musikk i Finnmark
Contact person: Harald Devold
Address: Hermetikken
Postal code: 9800
Place: VADSØ
Phone: 78951050
Fax: 78951970
Project participant(s): Filharmonien i Murmansk
Total budget: 680000 NOK
Grant from the Barents Secretariat: 300000 NOK
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731011 Border Crossing Exercises - three
concert projects
The project consists of the following arrangements at the Festival of North Norway/Festspillene i Nord-Norge in Harstad in the period 23 - 30 June 2007:
Concert 1: Moscow Art Trio meets Tromsø Symfoniorkester.
Concert 2: Torgeir Vassvik meets Huun-Huur Tu.
Torgeir Vassvik is from Gamvik in Finnmark. He is one of very few Norwegians who masters the art of throath singing. The group Huun-Huur Tu from Siberia is considered to be the leading performers within this field.
Concert 3: Border Crossing Exercises
The Swedish composer Staffan Mossenmark will make a composition with the working title ”Drums in Harstad”. The composition will consist of both soundscapes (pre-recorded music) and live music. Russian and Sámi participation.
Starting date: 01.04.2007
Closing date: 30.06.2007
Priority area: Kultur / Velferd
Project owner: Festspillene i Nord-Norge
Contact person: Birger Carlsen
Address: Postboks 294
Postal code: 9483
Place: HARSTAD
Phone: 77041230
Fax: 77067363
E-mail:
Project participant(s): Moscow Art Trio (MAT), Huun-Huur Tu (HHT),
Alexander Skliar, Tromsø symfoniorkester,
Torgeir Vassvik, Wimme Saari, Staffan
Mossenmark
Total budget: 390000 NOK
Grant from the Barents Secretariat: 100000 NOK
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731012 BVT (forfase Barents TV)
The group of independent filmmakers from the North wants to create, in co-operation with colleagues from the Barents region, TV program in several parts. The program will spread knowledge through personal and close narratives about the people of the Barents region. The main goal in the pre-phase period is to establish network and sign formal agreements with films and producers in Norway, Finland, Sweden and Russia in order to to achieve a good and functional organization for implementing the main project.
Starting date: 01.06.2007
Closing date: 15.12.2007
Priority area: Kultur / Velferd
Geographical area: Russian part of the Barents Region
Project owner: JAB Film
Contact person: Lillian Sund
Address: Strandveien 95
Postal code: 9006
Place: TROMSØ
E-mail:
Project participant(s): JAB Film, Archangelsk city local television
Total budget: 621000 NOK
Grant from the Barents Secretariat: 300000 NOK
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731013 Development of Barents network of Human
Rights
The project partners want to by building network of HR-organisations for discussions and joint actions we aim to improve HR-situation in the region. In addition to general networkbuilding, we think it is possible to build subnetworks for students, and organisations fighting violence against women. They will organise one conference in Svanhovd, Kirkenes, and support meetings between student groups in Scandinavia and Russia, and organisations fighting violence against women in Hammerfest and Murmansk.
Starting date: 01.04.2007
Closing date: 31.12.2007
Priority area: Kultur / Velferd
Geographical area: Archangelsk oblast - Murmansk oblast
Project owner: Amnesty International Norway,
group 178 Hammerfest