Societies
representatives from some eight societies in all, and conducted in accordance with the agenda issued earlier, it proved an excellent opportunity to discuss a wide range of issues and to see how we move forward now that Covid is behind us. A new landscape is before us, or so we would like to believe. All decisions to be taken were unanimously approved. Full details are given in the minutes, which have been circulated.
Viola player Ami-Louise Johnsson after her recital, together with CoScan’s Chairman Alexander Malmaeus Photo: Chris Howell, CoScan
The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland by Sanni Lappalainen The Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland has expertise in Finnish culture and society. Its work supports the internationalisation of Finnish contemporary art and helps artists, researchers and social and cultural actors to create international networks. The Director of the Institute is Dr Jaakko Nousiainen. The Institute was founded in 1991 and it is a non-profit, private foundation funded by The Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture. It is one of 17 Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes. We promote equality and the diversity of Finnish culture and strive to diversify research and science globally.
We are also a proud member of EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) London network. Building partnerships between Irish, British and Finnish organisations is at the heart of the Institute. We do this by identifying signals of change in the
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