The Karelian Resource Center of Non-governmental Organizations was visited by Tarvo Nieminen, the new head of the Petrozavodsk branch of the Consulate General of Finland, by invitation of the organization on the 31 August.
The distinguish feature of Petrozavodsk is that it regularly has the Days of different cities and countries that represent the history, culture, modern life of our foreign partners. The last autumn we hosted artists, masters, scientists from the Swedish sister city Umeå and German Tübingen.
On August 10th the final round table of the project “Social Lego” was conducted in the department of social and medical care for the elderly and disabled people of the center “Istoki”.
On August 15 the 12th Center of interethnic cooperation was opened in Kalevala within the framework of project “Common World: support for harmonization of interethnic relations in the Republic of Karelia”.
The virtual quiz "Do you know Germany" is held as part of the program "Days of Germany in Petrozavodsk".
The Quiz is organized by the Department of German and French languages of Petrozavodsk State University. The main purposes of the Quiz are:
In Lappeenranta, Finland, a meeting of representatives of the Thematic Working Groups (TWG) of the international project "ComUnYouth" ("Combating Unemployment among Youth") was held on July 10.
A new international project “NGOs for better life of aged people in Baltic Sea region” developed and implemented by the Charitable Foundation “Health of Karelia” began its work in Poland.
