Current affairs
12.7.2018
14.6.2018
Nordic Week was celebrated in Dar es Salaam
The Nordic countries were in the spotlight in Dar es Salaam last week, when the Embassies of Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark organized the third annual Nordic Week. This year's themes were environment and climate change and the highlights included a climate conference, a business seminar and a joint reception.
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23.5.2018
9.5.2018
Solving land use challenges in Tanzania – Innovative village land use planning methods supported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Private Forestry Programme (PFP), supported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, and the University of Turku in Finland have developed a Practitioners’ Manual on participatory mapping and planning tools for the village land use planning in collaboration with the National Land Use Planning Commission of Tanzania.
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23.4.2018
Finland’s inventory of the intangible: music, circus, cuisine and everything in between
Finland’s original approach to cataloguing intangible cultural heritage is collaborative and ongoing. The inventory includes many of the country’s singular strengths and inimitable quirks, some of which might become part of Unesco’s lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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23.3.2018
19.3.2018
13.3.2018
9.3.2018
Merkel wins award in Finland, chooses group in Niger as prize money recipient
Finland awards the International Gender Equality Prize, the first high-profile prize of its kind in the world, to someone who has advanced equality among genders. Rather than collecting the prize money, that person selects a cause to receive a major contribution.
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