Cross-border cooperation in the Nordic countries is strongly anchored in regional and local actors, who have seen a natural need for and benefits from co-operation across the Nordic region's land and sea borders.
 
                    
	The Nordic Working Group on Globalisation and Cross-border cooperation  has published a catalogue gathering examples of projects from each of  the 11 cross-border committees that receive support from the Nordic  Council of Ministers. The projects presented are only a selection of the  many cross-border co-operation projects and joint activities that have  been implemented with Nordic support over the past three decades. The  aim of the catalogue is to provide anyone who is wondering about the  benefits of Nordic co-operation with a series of examples of successful  initiatives that have produced good results. The aim is also to display  the Nordic way of co-operating across borders.