NAPA contributes to this vision with four focus points
- Arctic perspectives are seen and recognized throughout the Nordic region
- Children and young people in Greenland experience that they have opportunities to realize themselves in a diverse Nordic community
- Contribute to increasing Nordic trust in civil society
- Sustainability in cultural life by involving and engaging the cultural environment so that the cultural actors' projects and competencies elevate Nordic civil society as a whole in an environmental, social and competitive perspective
Therefore NAPA must
Contribute to Arctic perspectives being made visible and recognized throughout the Nordic region by:
- Communicating and facilitating Nordic co-operation with Arctic perspectives
- Building Nordic trust through work with language, culture and identity
- Cultivating an accessible and engaging cultural life
- Creating close collaborations with civil society, artists and artists' associations throughout the Nordic region, local and Nordic business, political actors, local and Nordic cultural institutions
Work towards more Greenlandic actors applying for and receiving funding from support programs in the Nordic region by:
- Informing about the possibilities
- Being in dialogue with the target group
- Contributing to building a common Nordic network
- Activating and stimulating young people in Greenland to take an active part in cultural production and communication
NAPA's Cultural Support Programme
NAPA supports projects that are a creative collaboration between Nordic or Arctic actors meeting one or more of the following criteria:
- Engages and involves children and young people
- Are sustainable in an environmental, social and / or competitive perspective
- Promotes Arctic perspectives throughout the Nordic region
NAPA's governing documents
- Letter of grant from the Nordic Council of Ministers (in Swedish)
- Handbook for the Cultural Support Program (in Danish)
- Strategy and vision Nordic Council and Nordic Council of Ministers
- Cross-sectoral strategy for children and young people (in Norwegian)
- Cultural policy cooperation program
- Strategic mandate for the institution
- Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers