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The former chairman of the Sweden-Latvia Cooperation fund board Anders Ljunggren has deceased. He was not only the former chair of the fund but also the initiator for the three Baltic cooperation funds to be created. A true visioner with deep knowledge and understanding of the Baltic Sea region is gone.
Read MoreThe Sweden-Latvia Cooperation fund has dedicated a grant to enhance exchange and activities between Latvia and Sweden within the SSE Business Lab, a start-up incubator. The grant is SEK 50 000 annually over a three year period, starting in 2025, a gift to SSE in Riga as the school recently celebrated its 30 anniversary.
Read MoreThe Sweden-Latvia Cooperation fund works to support bilateral exchange and grants project funding twice a year. At the board meeting on the 25 October 2024, the board of the Sweden-Latvia Cooperation Fund allocated 123 000 Swedish kronor in grants. The grants fall in the categories project and travel, because this time no grants in the category media were approved. In addition to the 419 650 Swedish kronor allocated in the spring of 2024, a total of 542 650 Swedish kronor have been available for various Sweden-Latvian cooperation projects.
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The Fund´s Board at its meeting on April 15 2024, decided to allocate SEK 335 200 (EUR 29 200) for project applications in the spring season of 2024.
The Fund grants funding twice a year to foster bilateral relations between Sweden and Latvia. This year, a category of applications received concerned the commemorative events since the Baltic refugees arrived by boat in Sweden, named “Gotland - 80 years after”.
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