السويد

Munkebäcksgymnasiet

National Network
السويد
Address

Skånegatan 18
412 51 Göteborg
السويد

Telephone
0046 31 367 17 08
Fax
0046 31 367 17 01
E-Mail
susanne.kallanvaara@educ.goteborg.se
E-Mail (2)
bengt.broberg@educ.goteborg.se
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
1963
Fields of Activity
  1. Youth and education
General Information
General public upper secondary school funded by the community. Number of staff: 50 Number of students: 550 Involved in a European project about culture and minorities Budgetary resources: 30 million SEK    
Mission and Objectives

Munkebäcksgymnasiet in Göteborg; Sweden is an upper secondary school with a media profile. The school has around 550 students and 50 employees. The students can choose between three different branches: social science and media, estetics and media, estetics and music. The media students can furthermore choose between photo, film or digital design later on in their studies.
PREP is another program for students who are not eligible for national programs due to failure in grammar school. Instead of separating these students, they are integrated in the regular student group during their first year. Special action plans are set up for each individual in order to raise their level of attainment. There is also a large language introduction program for newly arrived immigrants in Sweden. About 20 percent of our students have an immigrant background. Some have arrived in Sweden with their parents as refugees, others were born in Sweden and their families have recently received permanent residence. Quite a few students have arrived without any parent at all.
 

Main Projects / Activities

The school is situated in the very centre of Göteborg and our students come from all districts of Göteborg. The average student´s socio-economical background is middle class, lower middle class or lower class. The average student also has a relatively low overall final grade from grammar school. Some of the students have special difficulties in learning, for instance dyslexia and dyscalculia. The school therefore has two special teachers dedicated to meet those students´ needs and make them reach course-related goals. In the first year students sometimes have to attend extracurricular lessons three times a week to catch up or improve their skills in different subjects. Our school also has a health care team of our own, including a nurse and a welfare officer and the main object of the school is to make as many students as possible pass their A-levels.

How can you contribute to the Network in your country?

We have great resources when it comes to music and media presentations, photography and film editing which we think may be useful to the network in our country.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We are very interested in bringing Europe and other parts of the world mor together so that we can have a feeling of belonging instead of separation. This network seems to fulfil this need and open doors to collaboration with other organisations with the same goals.

Contact (1) Full Name
Susanne Kallanvaara
Job Title
Primus Magister
Head of the organisation
Bengt Broberg
Contact (2) Full Name
Emma Wallmark
Job Title (2)
Teacher

Museum of Forgetting

National Network
السويد
Address

Tvåbackarbrinken 2
602 28 Norrköping
السويد

Telephone
+46 73 656 92 88
E-Mail
erik.berggren@liu.se
E-Mail (2)
kosec@isak.liu.se
Mobile Phone
+46 73 656 92 88
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
2007
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information
The Museum of Forgetting is a space for reflection, debate and exhibition of contemporary issues with a focus on social, political and cultural forgetfulness. By borrowing the name of ”The Museum” we adopt a critical approach to the construction of collective memories, and highlight its unavoidable costs, and revenues, in terms of forgetting. We work voluntarily and all our revenues and stipends are going back to cultural producers which we engage, as we are a strict non-profit operation, and also because we are a nomadic cultural initiative. We have no fixed costs inbetween our events and exhibitons but have managed with the help of surrounding sponsors and supporters to borrow abandoned industrial spaces for our arrangements and mobilize workers and skills that we need for each occassion. At this point our movements and our changing contours and constellations have become our signum.
Mission and Objectives

Our projects, exhibitions and events, are not tied to any one traditional form of expression or genre, but come together in the ambition to look critically at contemporary issues in the crossfire between memory and forgetting.
The project started out from an ambition to look critically at the way the dominant media organisations dealt with the Iraq War. We placed the light on the absence of historical reflection and lack of deliberate articulated thought on future consequences within medias coverage. They, possibly out of an ambition to be impartial and objective, choose most of all to transmit NEWS in the present, i.e. reporting on details from the ongoing war. Yet, the innumerable amounts of details, deaths, bombs and so forth became increasingly difficult to fit into an overarching narrative, an understanding, any understanding, of the events. It is as if medias coverage most of all contributed to the thickening of the "fog of war". This later changed and a more sober phase entered with more of historical reflection and critical reporting.
This is how we started out with several discussions, events and art exhibitions. From this point we have moved on to raise questions about memory and forgetfullness in relation to gender, America, multiculturalism, private vs public etc.
Our next project will be an art exhibition showing Cartoons from Arabic countries. Our ambition is to highlight something that was completely forgotten in the so called Cartoon crisis, namely the long and rich tradition of Arabic satirical cartoons and drawings. The works will be exhibited in Beirut and Norrköping at the same time, as well as electronically, synchronized, on two different websites of major newspapers in Sweden and in Libanon.

Main Projects / Activities

Art exhibition: "Lets have another war.
Art exhibition: "Our Broken American Hearts"
Photography, Sculpture: "If God was a Woman"
Group exhibition, senior art-students: "Private Parts"
Open art hall for amateurs: "3m3 of Fame"
Movie evening "Falluja - reporting and resistance" "Control Room" and "Caught in Crossfire"
"The Forgettingmachine" a round-table with leading Swedish intellectuals on the war, the space for resistance and the element of forgetting.
See details on our website.

Contact (1) Full Name
Erik Berggren

Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities

National Network
السويد
Address

Fredsgatan 2
10321 Stockholm
السويد

Telephone
+4610-456 12 00
E-Mail
Sofia.Haggman@varldskulturmuseerna.se
E-Mail (2)
anna.lundstrom@varldskulturmuseerna.se
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
1980
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. International/Cultural relations
General Information

The Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquitites Museum is one of four national museums of world culture in Sweden. It is a state museum with support from the Ministry of Culture.

The Museum houses Sweden's most important archaeological collections of ancient and historical relics from the Mediterranean countries. We put on display objects from the nearly 500,000 collection. 

The museums' mission is to use the international cultural heritage to provide a perspective that helps people orient themselves in this transition.

The Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities was founded in 1954 through a merge of the Cyprus collections and the Egyptian Museum. Collections are mostly archeological materials from Swedish excavations in the Mediterranean area, mostly the Swedish Cyprus expedition in 1927-1931. There are also objects collected by Swedish royalty, diplomates and travelers. 

Mission and Objectives

The overall objective of the activities of the World Museums is that cultural heritage should be used as an active force in promoting sustainable global development.

Our ambition is to provide perspectives that help people to deepen and renew their worldviews in an increasingly internationalized world. Based on what's happening in the community to work through a combination of skill, artistry and involvement give our visitors experiences that entertain, challenge and inspire to action.

Main Projects / Activities

The Medelhavsmuseet houses Sweden's most important archaeological collections of ancient and historical relics from the Mediterranean countries.

Our current exhibitions include: ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt , Cyprus collections. 

We have school visits, family programme for children. 

Permanent exhibitions: 1710 sqm about Cyprus, Ancient Greece and Rome, The Near East, Islamic Art, the Gold room, the Expedition, and the study gallery.  

Number of permanent objects on display: 4400 

Contact (1) Full Name
Sofia Häggman
Job Title
Museum Curator
Head of the organisation
Ann Follin
Contact (2) Full Name
Anna Lundström
Job Title (2)
Head of Content and Learning

Musiker utan gränser/ Musicians Without Borders

National Network
السويد
Address

Tellusborgsvägen 64
Stockholm
السويد

Telephone
0704 965212
Telephone (other)
6168800
Fax
08 61688 80
E-Mail
annengs48@gmail.com
E-Mail (2)
musikerutangranser@hotmail.com
Mobile Phone
0704965212
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2009
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Media
General Information
Musicians Without Borders is a nongovernmental organisation that started in 2009, following an initiative by Anna-Lena Engström. The purpose of the association is to create, through artistic means, dialogues beyond ethnic, cultural, religious and political boundaries. We are 22 members. 
Mission and Objectives

to work for peace and understanding among musicians and singers. no problems with religion ,culture or sex or traditions. to start a choir for children.
The mission is to sing all peoples songs.

Main Projects / Activities

http://www.musikerutangranser.se/projekt
Musiker Utan Gränsers kulturdag 2016
Den 6-11 augusti 2016 gästades Musiker Utan Gränser av kören och orkestern Yanbou' al Mahaba - The Foutain of Love Choir - från Jordanien. Under deras vistelse i Stockholm skedde kulturutbyten vid olika workshops. Höjdpunkten under dessa dagar var den 9:e augusti, då kören/orkestern, under en konsert i Eric Ericssonhallen på Skeppsholmen, framförde oratoriet ”Jesus, the Fountain of Love”.
Konserten inleddes med ett öppningstal av domprosten i Stockholms domkyrkoförsamling Hans Ulfvebrand. Förutom oratoriet, bjöds det på olika musikaliska inslag av medlemmar från Musiker Utan Gränser. Bland annat framfördes Ylva Q Arkviks verk ”Human Rights”. Konserten genomfördes med stöd av Eric Ericssonhallen, Stiftelsen Carpe Vitam, Stockholms Katolska Stift och Sensus.
STABAT MATER - Moder Marias delade sorg med världens alla kvinnor (8-9 april, 2017)
I evenemanget ingick ett framförande av G.B. PERGOLESIS tonsättning "STABAT MATER" och uruppförande av verket "MATER", skrivet av den svenska kompositören YLVA Q. ARKVIK, med text av MARIE TONKIN. Dessutom musik av och med iranska sångerskan ANIS MOIN och recitation av skådespelaren ANNELI MARTINI. I framförandet ingick även en konst-/fotoutställning, som man kunde ta del av innan konserten, i pausen och en stund efter konserten.
Evenemanget var en hyllning till världens alla kvinnor, oavsett religion eller etnicitet, med fokus på de som har förlorat ett barn eller en nära anhörig - något som är väldigt viktigt i en tid med pågående konflikter och flyktingkris. Medverkade gjorde solister, dansare, konstnärer, HÖGALIDS DAMKÖR och HÖGALIDS KAMMARORKESTER.
Produktion: MUSIKER UTAN GRÄNSER i samarbete med THEMEOLOGY PRODUCTIONS & PUBLISHING, NBV, HÖGALIDS FÖRSAMLING och ERIC ERICSONHALLEN. Med stöd från STOCKHOLMS STAD.
 

Contact (1) Full Name
Anna lena Engström
Head of the organisation
Scenkartellen
Contact (2) Full Name
Liselotte Öhman

National Museums of World Culture | Statens Museer för Världskultur (Head of Network)

National Network
السويد
Address

Södra vägen 54
412 54 Göteborg
السويد

Telephone
0046702777041
E-Mail
rasha.shaaban@varldskulturmuseerna.se
E-Mail (2)
anna.lundstrom@varldskulturmuseerna.se
Organisation Type
Public Institution
Year of Establishment
1999
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. Environment/Sustainable development
  4. Gender
  5. Heritage
  6. Human rights
  7. International/Cultural relations
  8. Research
  9. Youth and education
General Information

National Museums of World Culture was established in 1999 and is a government agency.

The agency consists of the Ethnographic Museum, the Museum of Mediterranean and the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm and the Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg. 

The National Museums of World Culture (World Museums) was formed as a response to changes globally as well as domestically. Internationalization has increased and we experience a more globalized world, while the former culturally and ethnically quite homogeneous Sweden is becoming more multicultural.

The World museums' mission is to use the international cultural heritage to provide a perspective that helps people orient themselves in this transition.

Mission and Objectives

The National Museums of World Culture is responsible for displaying and bringing to life the various cultures of our world, in particular cultures outside of Sweden. Furthermore, the agency is to document and illustrate different cultural manifestations and conditions as well as cultural encounters and variations from a historical, contemporary, national and international perspective. Finally, the agency shall promote interdisciplinary knowledge and various forms of public activities. The agency head office is situated in Gothenburg.

The National Museums of World Culture (Världskulturmuseerna) is the coordinator of the Anna Lindh Foundation network in Sweden.

The Swedish network receives an annual support from the Swedish Ministry of Culture for holding activities with members of the network and establish cross border collaboration to facilitate partnership for the Swedish civil society. In addition, the Swedish network is supported by the Anna Lindh Foundation through the network support scheme.

The Network is open to institutions, organisations and other partners who adhere to the principles and the mission of the Anna Lindh Foundation which work on the basis of democratic, pluralistic, and multilateral values.

Membership in the Swedish network is open to NGOs; Public institutions, including local and regional authorities; public and private "not for profit" Foundations; other "for profit" partners promoting "not for profit" activities and corporate social responsibility policies. However, the Network is not open to political parties or organizations and projects owned by political parties nor to individuals.

Main Projects / Activities

Agency activities are carried out at Etnografiska museet/Museum of Ethnography, Medelhavsmuseet/Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities and Östasiatiska museet/Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm as well as Världskulturmuseet/Museum of World Culture in Gothenburg.

The flagship programme of the Swedish network is: Celebrating Our Diversity. 

In January 2024, the Swedish network launched Actions for Diversity initiative to support network activities for promoting intercultural dialogue, inclusion and active citizenship. 

Contact (1) Full Name
Rasha Shaaban
Job Title
Projects Manager / Network coordinator
Head of the organisation
Ann Follin (Director)
Contact (2) Full Name
Karl Magnusson
Job Title (2)
Chief of Staff

Newly elected advisory committee

الصورة
ALF Advisory Committee 2020.jpg

In December 2019, we opened the call for nomination of new advisory committee members. The process resulted with the election of the following members:

1. Bertil Björk (STPLN)

2. Josefin Stenmark (Bilda)

3. Parul Goush (Peers Bridge)

Nomination and voting took place online.

The mandate of the current committee is January 2020 – January 2022.

The first meeting of this committee took place on 5 March 2020 at the World Culture Museum in Gothenburg.

 

Nordisk Hjälp - Nordic Aid

National Network
السويد
Address

Scheelegatan 13
212 28 Malmö
السويد

Telephone
+46-40-21 29 33
E-Mail
info@nordiskhjalp.com
E-Mail (2)
taim@nordiskhjalp.com
Mobile Phone
+46 (0)763155039
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2005
Fields of Activity
  1. Human rights
General Information

Nordic Aid is a politically and religiously independent non-profit association. The organization's main task is to help refugees and needy people and fight poverty both with long-term development projects that are rights-based and with urgent humanitarian efforts that are needed based.

Nordic help in emergency situations follows the Red Cross' codes in its international relief work and follows the Giva quality code to maintain a good standard of its work, the association is also a member of CHS to maintain a standard of its international work.

The association also has operations in Sweden and works for the benefit of society and helps children, young people and vulnerable people, fights racism and violent extremism, promotes integration and helps newcomers.

Nordic Aid also has a sponsorship business, where sponsors in Sweden are involved and help children in affected countries.

Mission and Objectives

Nordisk Hjälp (Nordic Aid) wants to change the way the public feels about refugees. We are focusing on fugitives in the Middle East, mainly children, women and the elderly, as we find their situation today frightingly inhuman. We wish to create opinion among the public and extend the international understanding as well as the understanding of human rights and their importance. We want to work against racism and help to create peace.

Main Projects / Activities

We give essential assistance to people in need in the Middle East, i.e. we send or go there with food packages and clothing. We also provide medical assistance, send wheelchairs and ambulances, and give necessary school tools for pupils in need. We have 850 sponsors that each have a sponsorship for one orphan. We also work on new projects that aim to teach young people about human rights and the importance of volunteer work.

Contact (1) Full Name
Taim Al Yousef
Job Title
Chairperson
Head of the organisation
Taim Al Yousef

Nya Kompisbyrån

National Network
السويد
Address

Magnus Ladulåsgatan 3
118 65 Stockholm
السويد

Telephone
+46793375697
E-Mail
mardin@nyakompisbyran.se
E-Mail (2)
hanna@nyakompisbyran.se
Mobile Phone
+46793375697
Mobile Phone (other)
+4676028 64 24
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
2014
Fields of Activity
  1. Democracy and community development
General Information

Nya Kompisbyrån is a non-profit organization that strives to increase social inclusion and cohesion by bringing together newcomers to Sweden with established Swedes. We link people with common interests to meet for a coffee (in Swedish fika), a dinner, or another fun activity of their choosing. These days we also offer online meetings and events for our participants.

Our job is to make integration easy and accessible for everyone. Nya Kompisbyrån is the result of a merger of previously separate organizations Invitationsdepartementet och Kompisbyrån. Since 2014, we have matched over 40,000 people in Sweden.

Our participants are between the age of 18-90 years old and from over 130 countries.

Nya Kompisbyrån receives continuous financial support from the foundation Axel Johnson to develop and upscale novel approaches and activities. Axel Johnson operates the initiative Axelerate.

Mission and Objectives

We believe in a society where people meet, talk and build relations. A society where social exclusion and xenophobia are replaced with a welcoming culture and social cohesion.

Our vision is to increase the sense of community in the society by enabling meetings between people with different backgrounds, experiences, and cultures.

Our meetings lead to improved Swedish language skills, larger social networks, increased chances to get a job, greater mutual understanding, and enriched societies.

We offer simple forms of social inclusion that are easy and fun to take part in.

Facilitating multicultural dialogue we see as an important means for fighting social inclusion and xenophobia and promoting fundamental rights, mutual understanding, and a sense of community.

Main Projects / Activities

All our main activities aspire to link people with different backgrounds yet with common interests to meet for a coffee (in Swedish fika), dinner or online.

We create friendship that leads to: 97 % of the new Swedes feel more or much more welcome in Sweden after a dinner, 95 % of all our participants feel that they have learned something new about another culture, and 28 % of the participants who were jobseekers got a job or internship with the help of their new friend.

Contact (1) Full Name
Mardin Baban
Job Title
Executive Director
Head of the organisation
Mardin Baban
Contact (2) Full Name
Hanna Lindgren
Job Title (2)
Project Manager

Ögonblicksteatern

National Network
السويد
Address

Västra Strandgatan 7B
903 26 Umeå
السويد

Telephone
090-140014
Telephone (other)
090140008
E-Mail
info@ogonblicksteatern.se
E-Mail (2)
mario@ogonblicksteatern.se
Mobile Phone
0705633336
Organisation Type
Non-Governmental Organization
Year of Establishment
1974
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
General Information

Ögonblicksteatern is a professional independent theatre with subsidy from the municipality, the region, the Swedish Arts Council and from varied foundations.

We play about our time and direct the spotlight where society rubs. To the invisible, the undiscovered, the unseen and the impermissible to make it accessible and enchanting.

We want to show new images of reality by seeking the hitherto invisible and unseen. We are constantly trying to find new stories to portray on stage. To believe that another reality is possible, new images of reality need to be presented. In the issue of accessibility, Ögonblicksteatern has found a great artistic development potential for the performing arts. We work to put all bodies and thoughts in focus by working with an ensemble of people with norm-breaking and norm-following functionality.

We have our stage centrally down by the river in Umeå and in addition to theater, concerts, lectures, meetings and much more take place here. We believe that all culture is created in the meeting, that what is created is never static, that culture is to give everyone access to a place where you can get an impression and give expression. As part of this, Ögonblicksteatern works to make the performing arts accessible to everyone. The venue is fully accessible and we work with various artistic means to create opportunities for everyone to take part in and practice performing arts. Everyone has the right to a place, everyone has the right to culture!

Mission and Objectives

Our aim is to make the stage mirror the reality and we do this by allowing different types of bodies and stories on the stage.

Today our area of competence, apart from theatre and dramatic art, are accessibility, normative power systems and democratic rights. Ögonblicksteatern create theatre to make norms visible and questioned. To make the theatre accessible, we must examine the world around us and our way of giving it form. To be able to believe that another reality is possible we need new images/descriptions of reality to be offered.  

Main Projects / Activities

Performing Arts, Festival Normal, Ten words may be one life.

https://www.ogonblicksteatern.se/aktuellt

Contact (1) Full Name
Ingunn Grande
Job Title
Executive
Head of the organisation
Mario Castro Sepulveda