Kolarctic ENPI CBC (European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument, Cross-Border Cooperation) is one of the ENPI financing instruments of the European Union. ENPI programs are being implemented on the external borders of the EU.
Kolarctic ENPI CBC works by granting financing to projects. So far, 13 projects with lead partners and partners from all over the region have been financed by the program.
Kolarctic ENPI’s list of projects financed so far spans from maintenance of low volume roads in Lapland and Arkhangelsk to establishment of a Barents Cross Border University.
Here are some other projects supported by Kolarctic ENPI:
Kolarctic Salmon is a project that aims at merging modern science with traditional salmon fishing knowledge to create a future sustainable, long-term and knowledge-based management of the common Atlantic salmon stocks in the Barents region. The project´s area reaches from the Norwegian Nordland county in the west to the Russian Pechora region in the east. A considerable part of the wild salmon stocks of the Atlantic live on this area.
Kolarctic Sports and Recreational Activities is a project that aims to increase sports and recreational cross-border activities in Kemijärvi (Finland), Kandalaksha, Polarnie Zori and Kirovsk (Russia).
NEDA ORDYM is a project that is being implemented in Finnish Lapland and Nenets autonomous district and Komi republic in Russia. The project will create, develop and market culture and package tour services on ethnically, ethically and ecologically sustainable basis from the regions’ indigenous peoples’ own perspective.
The Kolarctic ENPI CBC program area includes Nordland, Troms and Finnmark counties in Norway, Norrbotten in Sweden, Lapland in Finland, Murmansk and Arkhangelsk regions and Nenets autonomous district in Russia. A minimum requirement is that there is one participant from the Russian program area and one participant from the Finnish or Swedish program area. (In some cases one Russian and one Norwegian partner is enough.)
