What we do
Projects that change smaller places
Every project in the network starts with a real question from a real town — and ends with people who have learned to work across borders.
Running now
Current projects
Completed work
Project archive
2025
We Can
Citizen participation in rural Jēkabpils, Latvia — dialogues, research, films and a community leaders' camp led by an ICN expert.
2022 – 2023
Entrepreneurship in Zemgale
EEA grant cooperation between Zemgale Planning Region in Latvia and Norwegian partners on entrepreneurship education and social enterprise.
2022 – 2023
Leaders of Eco-Change
Bialystok-based project on the management of natural resources, funded through Active Citizens under the EEA grants.
2016 – 2019
TENTacle
Flagship project of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region on green mobility and the benefits of the TEN-T core network corridors.
2015 – 2016
Young Eyes
Mirror workshops letting young people describe and redesign how they see their own home towns.
2004 – 2015
Project archive
Older project notes and announcements kept from the previous website.
2010 – 2012
PURR
Potential of Rural Regions — an ESPON targeted analysis led by Notodden with partners in Latvia, England, Wales and Scotland.
2009 – 2012
Trans in Form
Eleven partners transforming smaller towns: reuse of premises, town centre facelifts, regional scenarios and the Attractivity Barometer.
2008 – 2011
Zemgale (EEA)
Regional development cooperation between Zemgale Planning Region in Latvia and Norwegian partners.
2008 – 2011
Vidzeme Centre for Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Cesis District Council and Østfold County Council building an innovation and entrepreneurship support structure in Vidzeme.
2009
Informal education in Šiauliai
Training the trainers: an EEA project strengthening non-formal education for children and youth in the Šiauliai region.
2008 – 2009
E-health Latvia – Norway
Telemedicine and e-health exchange between hospitals in Zemgale and Blefjell hospital in Norway.
2008
European Blues Trail
Cultural cooperation linking blues towns and festivals, with Suwalki and Notodden in the lead.
2005 – 2008
Innovation Circle (TACIS)
The Russian branch of the Innovation Circle project, with activities in Pskov, Murmansk and partner towns.
2005 – 2007
Innovation Circle (Interreg IIIB)
The project that gave the network its name: 14 partners in 7 countries and more than 300 people trained in the Innovation Academy.
2002 – 2004
PIPE
Where it all started: young people working internationally on Planning, Identity, Participation and Entrepreneurship.