The network is a product of the Interreg Aurora financed project Bothnia Business Heritage 2023-2025. The network lives on after the project and aims to connect cultural heritage actors with an interest in product development. The network’s activities aim to create opportunities to cooperation as well as strengthen competence with help from the network’s members.
The purpose of the Botnia Business Heritage Network is to increase the cultural heritage actors’ offers to businesses, for example products and services. The network also offers competence development and exchange of experience between the cultural heritage actors and enables potential collaborations.
As a member you get a wide contact area with cultural heritage actors around the Gulf of Bothnia. You’ll also receive a newsletter where you can read about when the next meeting will take place, and other interesting things related to collaborations and product development.
Lead Group 2025-2027
The network is today run by a lead group consisting of four different cultural heritage actors from the gulf of Bothnia. Let us introduce ourselves (from right to left):
– Mikaela Kurula. Operations manager at Anders Chydenius Vicarage association and board member of the Arctic Museum Nanoq, Pietarsaari/Kokkola.
– Erika Rönnbäck. Museum educator at Hägnan open air museum in Gammelstad, Luleå.
– Nina Sten, Project manager at Kvarken boat museum and Brinken open air museum, Malax.
– Gunilla Sand, Museum Director at Stundars open air museum in Korsholm.
Contact us by email: mmf.brinken@gmail.com
Read more about the Bothnia Business Heritage project (2023-2025)
- The project aims to promote and highlight industrial and maritime heritage around the Gulf of Bothnia, while strengthening the connection between the past, the present, and the future. Heritage and knowledge about the past can be a resource for businesses for generating added value and credibility in marketing, branding, and development.
- A cross-border cooperation, strengthening the link between cultural heritage actors and modern businesses – and thereby creating mutual benefits.
– the cultural heritage actors becoming more business wise and developing their mission to pass on the cultural heritage.
– companies getting to know their roots providing added value and credibility in marketing, branding, and development.
Results we wish to achieve with the project
- An active cross-border network for cultural heritage actors to share experiences and best practices, also in the future.
- A stronger link between cultural heritage actors and businesses: new, sustainable models for cooperation.
- New, sustainable products and services to sell to businesses.
- A guide for cultural heritage actors where the process of developing new, sustainable products and services is explained and made easy to follow.
Partners in the project
- Centria University of Applied Sciences (lead partner)
- Novia University of Applied Sciences
- KulturÖsterbotten
- Västernorrlands museum
- Skellefteå museum
- Luleå tekniska universitet, LTU
Businesses and cultural heritage?
We have contacted about 500 companies around the Gulf of Bothnia to invite them to answer a survey and participate in an in-depth interview. 46 of them answered, and here you can take part of the results.
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Sustainable Development Goals
Bothnia Business Heritage Project applyes UNESCO’s sustainable development goals. We have selected six goals that are relevant to the project:
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Project contact
Linda Lindroos
TKI-asiantuntija/RDI-expert/FUI-specialist
Centria UAS, Jakobstad
linda.lindroos@centria.fi
+358 504679835
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