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On 9-10 March 2023, the Swedish network of the Anna Lindh Foundation organised a regional network meeting at the World Culture Museum (Världskulturmuseet) in Gothenburg, with the participation of members and alumni of the Anna Lindh Foundation Swedish network and network coordinators from Denmark, Finland, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.   The meeting programme includes networking activities, practitioner’s lab workshop, and open mic presentations of intercultural dialogue projects by members and network coordinators from Finland, Denmark and Germany. The Executive Director of the Anna Lindh Foundation, Josep Ferré, presented the Foundation Strategy 2022-2025 and its working priorities.

On 11 May 2023 morning took place the Intercultural Morning Coffee around the topic: Talking About My Generation. During this meeting, 3 speakers talked about the importance of intergenerational dialogue as a mean of prevention and creating solutions to our global problems. How can leadership and power be shared between generations? What are the most common stereotypes that exist between generations? How do we counter ageism? How do we gain access to the filter bubbles around each generation?

On 12-14 June, the Swedish Network hosted the Anna Lindh Foundation institutional meetings with the Board of Governors, Advisory Council and Network Coordinators in the framework of the Sweden’s presidency of the EU Council. The meetings were hosted by the Swedish network coordinator at the World Culture Museum in Gothenburg with the support of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Those meetings focused on how to tackle the issues encountered by the coordinators. They were presented to the board of the Anna Lindh Foundation of which Mari Neuvonen from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland is the chairman.