University of Helsinki

Listen to two podcasts on the socio-political aspects of languages in mainly Sweden and Finland. The discission includes: Finnish speakers in Sweden;…

Watch a film about the flag of the Åland Islands and its significance for the identity of this group of Swedish-speaking islands that are a part of…

The Nordic Embassies site in Berlin – 'Nordische Botshaften' – allows Finland, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Denmark to work closely together on shared…

Listen to three podcasts about gender equality in the Nordics and some suggestions for improvement - two in English and one in Norwegian.

The history of Åland’s legal status reflects key security issues in the area of the Baltic Sea for the last 100 years or more

An overview of perspectives on the epic poem.

Elias Lönnrot was a philologist and a collector of Finnic-Karelian traditional poetry, which he compiled in order to create the Kalevala.

Listen to these two podcasts to find out more about the Nordic countries’ maritime connections: Why do the Nordic countries see themselves as maritime…

Proficiency in English is both widespread and high-level in the Nordic countries, and there are legitimate historical and socio-political reasons for…