Scandinavian Culture Center

National Network
Egypt
Address

13 Markaz El-Maalomat street, Morabaa El Wozra 1175, Sheraton Heliopolis
Cairo
Egypt

Telephone
+202 226 711 61
Fax
+202 226 785 92
E-Mail
sameh.egyptson@egyptson.se
E-Mail (2)
jasmine.ruottinen@scandinavian-center.com
E-Mail (3)
info@scandinavian-center.com
Mobile Phone
+46 707 267 161
Mobile Phone (other)
+20 18 611 53 01
Website
http://www.scandinavian-center.com
Organisation Type
Private Company
Year of Establishment
2009
Fields of Activity
  1. International/Cultural relations
  2. Youth and education
General Information
The structure of SCC includes 6 employes, a chairman, a managing director, an account manager and three other employes. The SCC partners and cooperation partners for this time of applications, Egyptson Group AB which is the current sponsor to SCC. Other cooperations are with Center for Middle East Studies in Lund and CTR Lunds University. Since the center opened in June 2009 the budget is postponed to december 2010. Main Projects in the center are Educational and Cultural, such as teaching scandinavian languages, Arabic for Scandinavians, Cultural dialogs, art exhubitions, cultural seminars, cultural exchanges. Current art project at SCC is an art exhibition by Swedish artist Kicki Hankell. Coming project is an art project cooperation led by Jan Cardell.
Mission and Objectives

The SCC is a meeting point for Cultural exchanges between Scandinavia and Egypt through out dialogs and language. Our mission includes cooperating with Scandinavian artists and researchers to exhibit their work in Egypt.

Main Projects / Activities

As the only Scandinavian Center in Middle East and Africa we offer language educational programmes, an opportunity to learn Swedish, Norwegian and Danish in Egypt. No other institutes teaches the Scandinavian languages. We offer Arabic Courses to Scandinavian students who wish to come and study Arabic at our center and we offer the students accommodation as well. Our activities includes to be a part of the Scandinavian community living in Egypt and offer them a meeting place at the center where they can meet other Scandinavians and make friends and to help to preserve the Scandinavian Culture and traditions. To be a part of cultural dialogs and exchanges between the Scandinavian countries and Egypt. SCC has also taken the initiative to create a an non profit educational programme in a suburb to Cairo-Shobr-el skema, which is one of the poorest suburbs in Cairo. Our objective is to help to improve peoples living conditions by teaching them to read and write, teach them English. Our main targets are children, youth and women.

Contact (1) Full Name
Sameh Egyptson
Head of the organisation
Scandinavian Culture Center
Contact (2) Full Name
Jasmine S Ruottinen