Nordic Bildung Network / Nordiskt Sivistys Netverkið raises awareness about bildung in the Nordics. And we bring educators and other bildung professionals, semi-professionals, and bildung volunteers in the Nordics together.
The agenda will be two-fold:
To strengthen bildung, education for life and education in the Nordics today, including strengthening the awareness about the Nordic bildung history and bildung tradition.
To share knowledge about Nordic bildung and bildung methods with educators and decision-makers within the Nordics and around the globe.
Språket i Nordiskt Sivistys Netverkid kommer att bli en blandning av skandinaviska och engelska; most written communication will be in English.
Join the planning of the first ever Nordisk Sivistys Vika / Nordic Bildung Week
Fun, meaningful, and so important for our liberal democracy and thriving societies: En hel vecka i bildningens tecken över hela Norden. Any bildung institution, NGO, or association can become a co-organizer.
Læs mere her: https://www.globalbildung.net/nbn/kungalv-2026-planning-nordisk-sivistys-vika/ og inviter dine kolleger!
Organization
The Nordic Bildung Network is currently organized as a project under Nordic Bildung who will serve as the main organizer of Nordic Bildung Network activities. Nordisk Sivistys Vika will be a project under Nordic Bildung Network.
Join us online at:
linkedin.com/company/nordiskt-sivistys-netverkid/
facebook.com/groups/nordiskt.sivistys.netverkid
Nordic Bildung Network in the Global Bildung Network
Backing the creation of Nordic Bildung Network / Nordiskt Sivistys Netverkið
Participants at conference The Future of Bildung in the Nordics (in no particular order):
Lauri Tuomi, KVS, FI
Heidi Kinnunnen, KVS, FI
Ludvig Claeson, Musikkens studieforbund, NO
Professor Anne Greve, Oslo Metropolitan University, NO
Annina Kainu, Åbo University, FI
Sturla Bjerkaker, NO
Lennie Jansson, ReGeneration 2030, SE
Jonas Blendl, ReGeneration 2030, DE
Glenn Erik Haugland, TronTalks, NO
Niels Jakob Pasgaard, VIA University College, DK
Henrika Nordin, Bildningsalliansen, FI
Martin Ivarsson, Global Bildung Network, SE
Kim Hjerrild, Nordic Bildung, DK
Lene Rachel Andersen, Nordic Bildung, DK
Daniel Östergren, RHS, Örebro University, SE
Bildung in the five Nordic countries – a pre-project
The Conditions for Bildung and Education for Life in the Present-Day Nordic Education Systems – a pre-project.
Read more about the research pre-project here: https://www.globalbildung.net/bildung-in-the-five-nordic-countries/
The pre-project ran June 2024 through January 2025 and was funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Previous meetings in the Nordic Bildung Network
So far, we have had two physical meetings. A smaller meeting in Helsinki in June 2024 with 9 participants, where we decided to move along with creating a Nordic Bildung Network.
Marion Fields, Heidi Kinnunen, Harri Jokinen, Dora Hietavirta, Stian Juell, Lauri Tuomi, Lene Rachel Andersen, and Ludvig Claeson from Finland, Norway, and Denmark — plus Björn Wallen and Anna Ekström from Sweden who left before we took the picture — met in Helsinki at the KVS on June 13, 2024, for the first discussions about how to establish a Nordic bildung network.
The conference The Future of Bildung in the Nordics at Nordiska Folkhögskolan in Sweden with 35 participants from across the Nordics. Here we discussed in more detail how this network should proceed.
Mischa Sloth Carlsen from University of Copenhagen presents Project NordUng during the opening session at The Future of Bildung in the Nordics at Nordiska Folkhögskolan in Kungälv.
For now, and until more people have joined, Nordic Bildung will take care of the practicalities, and Nordic Sivistys Netverkid will be a project-based network of bildung-dedicated professionals. Making Nordic Sivistys Netverkid a real organization with bylaws and a chance for you to volunteer as a board member of yet another association with its own paperwork is not in the pipeline until the members insist.
We, the initiators, Ludvig Claeson (NO), Lene Rachel Andersen (DK), Lauri Tuomi (FI), Olli-Pekka Heinonen (FI), and Kim Hjerrild (DK) hope you would like to be active on the creative side and contribute to defining the content of the network. For more info and inspiration, please read our Mission Statement below and join our online and live events.
Nordic Bildung Network is hosted by Nordic Bildung