74 discuss whether import of skilled labour from Russia to Norway should form part of the Barents Secretariat’s grant programme . Recruiting the most skilled and able workers for jobs abroad, saving crisis-ridden enterprises in Norway, leaving local Russian enterprises with those less skilled and able, is hardly in line with the overall aims of the Barents co-operation. In order to reach its objectives, the Barents co-operation is heavily dependent upon being perceived as being equally beneficial to the Russian and Norwegian side. On the other hand, it could be said that the project makes the skilled Russian labour even more skilled and attractive in the labour market, and since they have chosen not to settle permanently in Norway, they may easily move back and contribute with their improved skills to the industrial development in Russia.
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Kola Saami radio
#Institutions involved and funding. The project owners are the Saami Council, NRK Sámi Radio, Yle Sámi Radio, SR Sámi Radio and SVT Sápmi. The owners of the Kola Saami Radio are the Saami Council (90 percent) and the two local Saami organisations, OOSMO and AKS (ten percent). The Saami Council is a voluntary Saami organization (NGO) with Saami member organisations in Finland, Russia, Norway and Sweden. It was founded in 1956. The Kola Saami Radio is an Interreg-Sápmi project. The funding from the Barents Secretariat forms part of a larger financing scheme in which several sources contribute, and amounted to 670.000 NOK in the period 2002-2005. The project was financed by a wide range of sources – the Norwegian MFA, the Saami Parliament of Norway, the regional authorities of Troms and Finnmark, EU Interreg Sapmi, SIDA Öst, the Finnish MFA, the Barents Secretariat, Nordic Council of Ministers, Institusjonen Fritt Ord (the Freedom of Expression Foundation), Eurasia Foundation, the Swedish and Finnish sections of the Saami Council, Norrbotten region and the Lappin Liitto, as well as the project owners NRK, YLE and SR – Sámi radio. There has been no Russian financial contribution although in the pre-feasibility study the local radio, the GTRK Murman, was meant to have a role. NIBR Report 2008:4
