Older articles

– I grasped the opportunity to participate at the belly dancing workshop together with women from both communities. We have a lot of academic events, but it is also important to bring people together on a cultural level, says project officer Tulin Aker (far right).

Recently opened in May, “Home for Cooperation” has already proven the ability of bringing people together. – All the events have been bi-communal, and that is exactly our goal, says project officer Tulin Aker. Read more

The Association for Historical Dialogue and Research cordially invites you to join the Home for Cooperation Inauguration Concert & NGO Festivities 6th May - 9th May. Read more

Appliqué by Susan Vargas exhibited at the Centre for Environmental Education of Salamiou. EEA and Norway grants in FM2004-2009 financed five individual projects and 33 NGO-projects in Cyprus. The environmental school in Salamiou is one of the individual projects.

Colourful compositions and appliqués by Susan Vargas are exhibited from 10th April to 8th May at the Centre for Environmental Education of Salamiou in Cyprus. Read more

Ingrid Schulerud gets a tour of the house in the buffer zone. The opening ceremony will take place in May 2011. 
Photo: Håkon Fossmark/Norwegian Embassy in Athens.

After years of planning and hard work: A home for cooperation is about to rise in the buffer zone between northern and southern Cyprus. Read more

The Norwegian Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion highlights gender equality as a key element of economic development and democracy. Read more

EEA and Norway Grants- supported renovation works have recently started on the bi-communal Home for Cooperation Centre in the UN controlled buffer zone in Nicosia, Cyprus. Read more

Anders Erdal, Financial Committee Chairman, together with Marie Osnes and Hjortur Sverrisson from the Financial Mechanism Office of the EEA Grants visited the Agora. 
Photo: Knut Steinfeld.

The future archeological sites will have iPhone-applications where you can search all the findings, photos and reports from the excavation area. With the support of the EEA- and Norway Grant, Agora intends to be the pioneer within this new technology. Read more

Takis Neophytou and Sverre Stub in front of The Red Cross Society. The last years the foundation have recieved support from the EEA- and Norway Grants

With support from Norway, The Cyprus Red Cross Society hosted in February a three day seminar on “Communication, Learning and Quality of Life” in Limassol. Read more

This house will be the bi-communal centre for dialogue and cooperation in Nicosia.

The EEA and Norway Grants support a new bi-communal centre focused on education and intercultural dialogue in the UN protected area in Nicosia. Read more

Ninos Savvides. 
Photo: Photo: Aslân Farshchian.

Cyprus wants to increase it’s aid to less developed countries. The EEA and Norway Grants are instrumental to make that happen. Read more

The Norwegian NGOs met their Cypriot partners and learnt a lot about the situation at the island. Read more

Ambassador Sverre Stub opened the Norwegian workshop. 
Photo: Aslân Farshchian.

Two intensive days in Athens gave useful information to both Greek and Norwegian EEA Grants partners. But it also came with a warning. Read more

33 NGO projects have been approved for funding from the EEA and Norway grants in Cyprus. Read more

50 projects, 10 of them with Norwegian partners, have been approved for the 2004-2009 EEA grant period in Greece. They range from protecting freshwater reserves to improve traffic in Thessaloniki. Read more

A symbolic ceremony took place 30 June in the U.N. buffer zone in Nicosia, Cyprus to signify the commencement of Home for Cooperation – Educational and Research Centre, an EEA Grants project financed through the Financial Mechanism for the period 2004-2009. Read more

Ambassador Stub visited the Riparian Forest of the Nestos Delta on Saturday, 21st June 2008, which is a project financed through the EEA Grants, financing period 1999-2003. Read more

The Thalassocosmos Cretaquarium in Gournes, Crete was officially opened in July 2006. The project is one of 29 projects in Greece funded under the EEA Financial Mechanism 1994-1998 (mostly financed by Norway). The aquarium was already open to the public in December 2005, and became an immediate success with more than 100,000 visitors having passed through its doors since then. Enjoy a vi Read more