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Long-term loans from the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB)
NIB provides long-term complementary financing to projects that, in compliance with NIB's mandate, strengthen competitiveness and enhance the environment. NIB offers its customers -both private and public- tailormade loans and guarantees on competitive market terms.
The West Nordic Fund
The West Nordic Fund lends money to invest in companies in the Faroe Islands and Greenland, as well as to Icelandic companies, for co-operation projects between an Icelandic and/or a Faroese or a Greenlandic company.
Funding from the North Atlantic Tourism Association
The North Atlantic Tourism Association (NATA) aims to make the West Nordic countries' co-operation on tourism more effective by strengthening and co-ordinating existing initiatives and by implementing forward-looking projects to develop new activities and attractions. Projects must involve two out of the three countries in order to qualify for funding.
Residence programme for groups at the Nordic Arts Centre Dalåsen
Groups that work with visual culture, including design and architecture, are eligible to apply for a period of residence at the Nordic Arts Centre Dalåsen in Norway. Applications are only accepted from groups.
Grant financing from the Nordic Development Fund
NDF provides grant financing for climate change investments in low-income countries. Eligible areas for NDF grant financing include climate change mitigation and adaptation activities. NDF grants are provided mainly for technical assistance, i.e. consulting services, and for investments, i.e. goods, works, services, and for other applicable expenses in connection with technical assistance.
Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Public Administration
With an annual budget of some 270 000 Euro, the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Public Administration offers financial support to civil servants and other staff in the public sector to carry out study visits, internships, training or network activities in the region. Activities supported by the programme require the participation of a minimum of three countries, of these a minimum of one Nordic and one Baltic.
Nordic Innovation project funding
Nordic Innovation funds Nordic projects that boost innovation and competitiveness in the Nordic business sector and lead to commercial and sustainable development.
The Nordic-Baltic Mobility and Network Programme for Business and Industry
The Nordic-Baltic Mobility and Network Programme for Business and Industry gives financial support to different stakeholders in the fields of business and industry to carry out study visits, internships, on-the-job training or network activities. The objective of the programme is to strengthen and promote economic co-operation, entrepreneurship, regional cluster co-operation and innovation opportunities. The programme runs from 2009 - 2013 and is administered by the Nordic Council of Ministers' Office in Latvia.
Funding from the Working Group for Sustainable Production and Consumption
The Working Group for Sustainable Production and Consumption (HKP) is a working group under the auspices of the Nordic Council of Ministers for the Environment. The group funds Nordic projects within its field of expertise based on annual priorities. The group is a cross-sectoral co-operative forum for the environment, business and consumer sectors. The overarching goal for the group is that consumption and production takes place in a way that improves the state of the environment and health, while ensuring effective and sustainable use of resources.
Nordplus funding
Nordplus funds projects whose purpose is: to promote Nordic languages and culture and mutual Nordic-Baltic linguistic and cultural understanding; to help to develop quality and innovation in educational systems for lifelong learning in the participating countries, via partnerships, development projects, knowledge exchanges and networks; to support, develop, use and promote innovative products and processes in the education sector, through systematic exchanges of experiences; to improve and develop Nordic co-operation on education, and to help to establish Nordic-Baltic co-operation in the same area. Institutions and organisations are eligible to apply, not individuals.
Nopef provides financing for feasibility studies
The specific aim of the fund is to strengthen the international competitiveness of Nordic enterprises by providing co-financing for feasibility studies that support the internationalisation of Nordic enterprises. Nopef finances feasibility studies for small and medium-sized Nordic enterprises for business set up in a country outside the EU and EFTA.