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.
On 6th of Jule, 2016 in North (Arctic) federal university named after M. Lomonosov (NAFU) a round table was conducted. Representatives of Arkhangelsk, Republic of Karelia, Saint-Petersburg, Moscow, Denmark, Sweden and Finland took part in the event. The event was organized as a part of the project ‘Joining creativity’ aimed at promotion of economic cooperation and trade among Northern countries and northwest Russian as well as promotion of successful integration of firms engaged in creative industries in the region of the Baltic Sea. The project is being implemented since February, 2016 by ‘Karelian Resource Center of Non-governmental Organizations’ with financial assistance of Nordic Council of Ministers.
