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20 THE CULTURAL FOUNDATION’S YEAR FUTURE CHALLENGES IN THE NORDICS

Cooperation on many fronts

The Finnish Cultural Foundation supports Finnish culture, not only by giving grants but also by starting
up its own projects and endorsing diverse initiatives, independently or in collaboration with others.

Research programme on
the challenges of the future

The Finnish Cultural Foundation is one of six Nordic foundations that are financing the Future
Challenges in the Nordics research programme. This programme supports research in the
humanities and social sciences on social and cultural challenges that are important to people
in the Nordic region. The programme’s opening seminar was held in September 2022.

Eleven subprojects received funding in 2021, totalling around EUR 10.5 million. The
research topics include the future prospects of young people in rural areas, ethnic
stereotyping, ageing in a digital world, energy peripheries, financial elites, elementary
schools, digital border controls, and automated decision-making in the public sector.

The seven-year research programme is helping to create joint projects that aim to generate
new information for decision-makers and to produce concrete benefits for society.

Finland’s most extensive cultural
education programme

KATRI NAUKKARINEN. IMAGE PROCESSING: FINNISH NATIONAL THEATRE. The Art Testers project offers all Anne F provided a dynamic
Finnish 8th graders 1–2 annual modern reinterpretation
visits in esteemed cultural
institutions. The fifth year of the of the story of Anne Frank.
project ended busily, as around
80,000 of the year’s more than
120,000 visits were conducted
between March and May 2022, due
to Covid restrictions prior to that.
In addition, an extensive selection
of remote cultural experiences
was released to make up for
pandemic-related cancellations.
The touching performances of
Anne F by the Finnish National
Theatre’s youth company proved
to be the most popular of these.

Once again, 100% of Finnish
middle schools have signed up for
the 2022–23 academic year, and
according to their wishes, they
were now able to choose whether
they wanted to carry out two
local visits or one local and one
elsewhere in Finland. The choices
were split around 50/50 between
the two options.