“COOL KOTKA” Open Call in Finland

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In the CCI4Change project, public authorities and Culture and Creative sector practitioners and entrepreneurs work together to better engage with citizens and encourage them to reduce energy consumption. In May 2024 the 3 innovation seed money open calls are to be announced in Latvia, Finland and Sweden. Through the practical pilots the culture and creative practitioners will be invited to collaboratively tackle energy-consumption related challenges of the local authorities. 

The “COOL KOTKA” open call is organised by City of Kotka in collaboration with Xamk and Cursor Oy.

Are you a theatre director, photographer, playwright, composer, sculptor, new media artist or any other creative professional? Want to know how you can get involved in sustainable development? This is the opportunity for you!

2-4 projects will be selected from the applications, each of which will receive a maximum financing of EUR 10 000.

Application deadline: 31.05.2024

The full open call (in Finnish): here.

Information about “Switch on Kauguri!” open call in Latvia: here.

 Stay tuned as we update you about the open call in Sweden as well!

80% of “CCI4Change: Facilitation of Citizens Energy Consumption Behavioural Change in BS Cities and Municipalities” budget is Interreg BSR co-funded with the remaining 20% coming from the project partners.

Project is implemented by Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture (lead partner, the Secretariat located in Latvia); Jurmala Local Government Administration (Latvia); the City of Kotka (Finland); Scania Region (Sweden); Cursor Oy: Kotka-Hamina Regional Development Company (Finland); Föreningen Stapelbädden/STPLN (Sweden) and South- Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences Ltd (Xamk) (Finland).

Read more about the project here.