Cross-cultural and cross border connections are the foundations of creativity and new ideas. These connections are always between people and the ideas emerge as people formerly unknown to each other meet and share thought and action.
What exactly happens when people meet, when they share ideas, exchange views and form partnerships? What is it like to go abroad or work at home with colleagues from foreign countries and develop concepts and projects? What does crossing physical and mental borders mean, and what kind of challenges and opportunities does it create?
These questions are at the heart of our work at The Finnish Institute in London. This book celebrates the Institute's first 20 years in London. It is about international encounters in the realm of he civil society and it presents some of those who have witnessed it in action.