Project Manager
Areskoug, Nils-GöranAmount granted
100 000 SEKYear
2012
Nordic Arena for Strategic Dialogue: Development of a virtual platform for knowledge integration. Against the backdrop of worrying trends of increased disintegration and confrontation in trade, politics and coordination in Europe and globally, the Nordic region appears to be a safe haven. Strategic dialogues promoting Nordic knowledge exchange therefore represent an opportunity to actualize a future potential based on shared values and deeply common history. Increased strategic and critical constructive dialogue on the future through uncontroversial cultural exchange aims to increase the sense of solidarity and improve the conditions for value creation and growth through cooperation in business, politics, academia and culture. The network of dialogue partners (Transdisciplinary Dialogues) is now being further developed through face-to-face dialogues at strategic level. Part of the knowledge dialogues are reflected on a continuously evolving online platform. This network-based knowledge integration now needs a basis in the form of a firmer organization that can provide stability and longevity to the cultivation of strategic dialogues between leading representatives from "small countries" on the map of Europe: Above all, this is about ways to address very similar challenges for the countries of the Nordic region and Switzerland through increased "cross-border" communication with the benefits that the concept implies in view.