Organization

Association of Finnish Children’s Cultural Centers, Finland advances the operation of professional cultural centers for children and adolescents in Finland. It promotes competence in the field of children’s culture as well as its visibility nationwide. Association also promotes the implementation of international cooperation projects and collaboration in children’s culture as well as cross-border networking of actors in the field. In international pro-jects, the main focus lies in the members’ professional development and adoption of new practices as well as sharing and making Finnish know-how more visible. We have 28 children’s centers as our members and they operate in more than 50 areas of culture and arts.

Project

As a co-ordinator of Creative Europe project, we aim to set the model for European Children’s Cultural Centers. We are bringing to this project the best knowledge and models used in Finland for all of Europe to profit. Knowing that every country has its original culture and structure, we are looking for partners that are ready to create national or regional models in practice, and take responsibility of their region in Europe. Together we will form a network of European Children’s Cultural Centers.

We are hosting International Cildren’s Culture Forum and ENO meeting 30.9.–2.10.2019 in Tampere, Finland. Theme is Every-body’s business: Inclusion in Culture and Arts Education and Implementation of Children’s Cultural Rights. During the forum, we will host a workshop on co-operation in European projects in children’s culture and arts pedagogy.

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Contact: Mr. Aleksi Valta, Executive Director
E: aleksi.valta@lastenkulttuuri.fi