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Nordic Science Centre Association
The Nordic Science Centre Association (also known as NSCF, abbreviated from the Swedish name ''Nordisk Science Center Forbund'') was established in a meeting in Finland in October 1987. The first chairman of NSCF was Per-Edvin Persson, long-time director of Finland, Finnish Science museum#Science_center, science centre Heureka (science center), Heureka. Starting from 2017, the chairman is Hanne Haack Larsen from Experimentarium in Denmark. NSCF helps to establish the contact between the science centres (i.e. exhibition and activity centres whose goal is the Popular science, popularisation of science and who aim to teach through Interactivity, interactive exhibits and demonstrations) in Scandinavian countries, Scandinavian and Baltic Countries. The aim of the association is to encourage the cooperation and the exchange of ideas between its member institutions. Contact and cooperation are facilitated by the annual meetings and the newsletter that is issued five times a year. Several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
