Under the joint headline, NORTH ATLANTIC OPPORTUNITIES, NORA hosts a half‐day conferencecombined with two parallel project development seminars with one common goal: to explore and seize the opportunities for collaboration that exist among countries that share not only their geographical location around the North Atlantic Ocean, but also have a number of similar challenges and opportunities.

The conference program can be seen here.

It is a Nordic objective to strengthen the North Atlantic cooperation. International challenges demand transnational solutions, and in the North Atlantic it is natural to incorporate the neighbouring regions of Canada, Scotland and Northern Ireland into projects forming the future through a common endeavour.

A closer cooperation with our neighbours to the west is obvious, as these countries and regions face many of the same challenges and opportunities facing the NORA Region. These issues include, for example, outmigration from sparsely populated coastal communities; the need for new solutions regarding the environment, energy and tourism; research in and the exploitation of marine resources and aquaculture, and the possible extraction of raw materials like hydrocarbons and minerals.

North Atlantic Opportunities is arranged by Nordic Atlantic Cooperation (NORA).

NORA is an intergovernmental agency financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Its activities are supplemented by grants from within the various collaborating regions: the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland and the west coast of Norway. NORA operates under the aegis of the Nordic Council framework, which fosters Nordic goals and values both regionally and internationally. This framework enables NORA to stimulate and facilitate transnational collaboration via a project‐based platform.

North Atlantic Opportunities is made possible by a special grant from a Nordic Council of Ministers
allocation with the purpose of facilitating a closer Nordic cooperation with the neighbours to the west.