Kainun institutti – kvensk institutt (before 2005 known as ''Norsk senter for kvensk språk og kultur'') is a center for

Kven KVEN (1520 AM, "La Voz 1520 AM & 96.3 FM") is a commercial radio station that is licensed to Port Hueneme, California and serves the Ventura County area. The station is owned by Gold Coast Broadcasting and broadcasts a Spanish-language news/tal ...

culture and

language Language is a structured system of communication. The structure of a language is its grammar and the free components are its vocabulary. Languages are the primary means by which humans communicate, and may be conveyed through a variety of met ...

. It is located in

Børselv Børselv (, ) is a village in Porsanger Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located at the base of the Sværholt Peninsula, along the east side of the Porsangerfjorden, at the outlet of the river Børselva. The village of B ...

in Porsangi (Porsanger) municipality in

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. It was opened in January 2007. The chair at the institute is ''Hilde Skanke''. In total six people are employed at the institute. Funding is provided by the Norwegian government. The board of the institute consists of one member from: Norske Kveners Forbund/Ruijan kveeniliitto, (Porsanger) municipality, Pyssyjokilaiset and Ruijan Kväänit,

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway an ...

, and

Finnmark University College Finnmark University College ( no, Høgskolen i Finnmark or HiF) was a university college with three campuses throughout Finnmark, Norway. In August 2013 Finnmark University College and the University of Tromso merged to form what is now called the ...

. The institute main tasks of the institute are: *Educational and information work about the Kvens both nationally and internationally. *Increase the usage of the Kven language locally. *Further develop the Kven language, including writing a dictionary and education material for the Kven language. *Cultural arrangements. Also located at the center is the Kven language board that was established on 13 April 2007.Login

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* Kven culture Language regulators Porsanger Organizations established in 2007 2007 establishments in Norway {{Norway-org-stub