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This year, the Barents Cultural Scholarship was awarded to the Artists' Regional Assembly of Lapland in Finland. For 30 years, the Regional Assembly has engaged in active cultural cooperation in the Barents region by, among other things, producing international exhibitions, promoting the circulation of exhibitions and works, strengthening the networking and working opportunities of artists, and bringing high-quality art close to the inhabitants of its region. The cultural scholarship is one of the measures of the Barents cooperation, its Regional Assembly and the Joint Working Group of Culture. The Regional Assembly of Oulu Region has a representative of its own region in the group. The scholarship is awarded at the same time every two years in each of the four countries in the Barents region: Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia. The aim of the scholarship is to highlight cultural cooperation and artists in the Barents region and to encourage artists to work in the region. The scholarship also aims to make the Barents region…

Time: 10.11.2021, 9.00-11.30 Venue: TEAMS The Regional Assembly of Oulu Region and the Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment are launching the Renewing and Skilled Finland 2021-2027 EU regional and structural policy programming period in cooperation with a joint event on 10 November 2021 from 9 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. The event will be held in connection in cooperation with TEAMS and will be open to all developers in the region and to those interested in the EU's regional and structural policy programme. Programme 9.00 – 9.05 Opening of the event, Development Director Tiina Rajala 9.05 – 9.25 Preparation of the Renewable and Skilled Finland 2021-2027 programme, Development Manager Päivi Keisanen 9.25 – 9.35 Regional Programme for Northern Ostrobothnia, Development Director Tiina Rajala 9.35-9.45 Smart Specialisation for Northern Ostrobothnia 2021-2024, Project Manager Saija Tikkanen 9.45 – 10.00 ERDF TL 1 Innovative Finland, Development Manager Päivi Keisanen · RDI activities ·…

This year, the annual Northern Ostrobothnia Tourism Parliament will meet in Pudasjärvi on 10-11 November at the Tunturihotelli in Iso-Syöte. Local people, culture, stories and the local way of living will be of even greater interest to tourists in the future. The diverse cultural heritage of Northern Ostrobothnia in cooperation with its interesting stories brings many opportunities for tourism in the region. Knowledge of the local culture, nature and history of tourism companies and their ability to create interesting stories about them, as well as to build products and services around them, provide a strong competitive advantage. The speakers are Tiina Rajala, Development Director of the Regional Assembly of Oulu Region, Rauno Posio, Project Director at Visit Arctic Europe, Juha Kuukasjärvi, Entrepreneur at Tunturihotelli, Susanna Kyllönen, Project Coordinator at Cultural Tourism Project, Minna Hirvonen, Executive Director at Syöte Tourism Regional Assembly, Tomi Timonen, Mayor of the City of Pudasjärvi, Jussi Saarinen, Event Producer at Ruka-Kuusamo Tourism Regional Assembly, Professor of Tourism Business and International Master's Programme in Tourism Business …

The Regional Assembly of Oulu Region invites you to submit your tender for the design and piloting of tourism products and independent theme tours that utilise the hydropower construction heritage and reports of the Oulujoki river basin. Tender Document and Responses

Change Now – Leading the Economy of Wellbeing! The 14th Northern Ostrobothnia Wellbeing Forum 2021 will be held on 4 November 2021 at Kuusamo House in Kuusamo (Kaarlo Hännisentie 2, Kuusamo). The event will start at 12 noon. In recent years, the economy of well-being has emerged as an important social theme and its effects on public policy can be observed both in Finland and abroad. If development continues in the same direction, the well-being economy may become one of the most significant policy ideas, operating models and drivers of change in the 2020s. It has therefore been justified to make the well-being economy a new key theme in the region's well-being work and regional development. In the well-being forum, we hear the latest information and good practices related to the theme, increase cooperation and partnership, strengthen competence and acknowledge successful practices. The event will reward …

The Northern Ostrobothnia Digital Support project’s webinar ‘Digitally Better Everyday - Welfare in cooperation with Digitisation to the North’ on 15 October will culminate in a multi-annual project related to the regional development of digital support. Digital skills can already be considered one of the most important civic skills, but still up to one million Finns are at risk of being excluded from the digital society. The threat of digital exclusion particularly affects older people, but also other target groups, such as the working population, children and young people.  Strengthening digital skills can increase the fluency of everyday life and promote well-being, and thus strengthen people's participation in a digitalising society.  "Syyswebinar is one of the key events of the autumn and it focuses on securing better everyday life through digital support, but at the same time it is a kind of final seminar of the Northern Ostrobothnia Digital Support project," says project manager Maria Puotiniemi. Digital support has been developed in Northern Ostrobothnia since autumn 2018, when the Regional Assembly of Oulu Region participated in the Ministry of Finance…

The Northern Ostrobothnia Climate Road Map was adopted in February. Remember, we have 'everything counts!' There are resources for doing this, and the new programming period will bring more of them. To refresh our memory, the Regional Emblems tell us how we are heading towards carbon neutrality. It is good to remember that we do not own the land, we borrow it from future generations. Grab the climate road map's core messages here and let's put climate action on the air! Further information: Ritva Isomäki, Senior Specialist, tel. +358 40 685 4026

The regions of Eastern and Northern Finland will kick off the 2021-2027 EU regional and structural policy programming period in cooperation with a joint event on 3 November 2021 from 12 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event will be organised as a webinar and will be open to all regional developers, as well as funders and potential users of the EU's Regional and Structural Policy Programme. Programme The event will be hosted by Development Manager Eira Varis from the Regional Assembly of North Karelia. at 12-12.10 Opening of the event, Regional Director Markus Hirvonen, Regional Assembly of North Karelia at 12.10-12.20 Video message from Commissioner Elisa Ferreira at 12.20-12.40 Expectations for the implementation and performance of the programme period in Eastern and Northern Finland, Regional Development Director Johanna Osenius, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment at 12.40-13 Renewable and Skilled Finland Programme from the perspective of Eastern and Northern Finland, IP Secretary General Development Manager Päivi Keisanen, Regional Assembly of Oulu Region at 13-13.10…

Welcome to the Assembly. Congratulations on the election success. Most of you will be elected Regional Assemblylors. Twelve and a half years ago I sat as a young representative at a similar meeting and now it's safe to retire when you see new faces in the hall. I don't usually give long opening speeches, but now it's been over a year and a half since I've been able to talk live to a larger group of people. A lot can happen in four years. That was the case during the previous Regional Assembly, and it will be the case during the next term. We were sure that the new counties and regional elections would have been held long ago. We were preparing multidisciplinary counties in good speed and in cooperation with good cooperation across party lines, but suddenly a couple of years ago came to a complete halt. Now regional elections…

The Smart Specialisation and Smart Specialisation Strategy for Northern Ostrobothnia 2021-2024 is presented in a new video. Smart specialisation is a regional innovation policy in which regions recognise their strengths and areas for development. in cooperation with strengths, regions stand out and thrive, but from the point of view of preparedness, the tip must not be too narrow and the regions must renew- The objective of smart specialisation is to create innovation ecosystems in the regions that enable the businesses to renew itself. Cooperation between research and education decision-making bodies and companies to generate and implement new innovations is one of the pillars of the strategy. It is also important to complement local know-how by working together in cooperation with others. Partners can be found in their own country or region, but increasingly in international networks. The video was created in cooperation in cooperation with the Regional Assembly of Oulu Region and its stakeholders…