Countering Hostilities in the Cultural Domain in the Nordic-Baltic region

Countering Hostilities in the Cultural Domain 2025

The project supports Nordic-Baltic states and regional organisations in:

a) Assessing current work across the Baltic Sea states on handling defence-related challenges in the cultural domain;
b) Aligning thinking, projects, and initiatives, and sharing identified lessons;
c) Exploring needs and options for capacity development, alignment, and cooperation.

Regional workshop, 14-15 October 2025, Tallinn, Estonia.

WORKSHOP OUTCOME DOCUMENT available here

The workshop was hosted by the Ministry of Culture of Estonia in cooperation with the Nordic Center for Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict (CHAC), Denmark, and the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden.

The workshop brought together participants from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Poland, the Netherlands, and Denmark, as well as regional organizations such as the Nordic Council of Ministers, the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), the European Union (External Action Service – EEAS), and NATO Multinational Division North (MND-N). More than 50 participants contributed to the workshop, primarily stakeholders from ministries of culture and their subordinated agencies (e.g. heritage boards and museums), and defence, resilience, and armed forces structures.