The Norden Association in Sweden has about 17 000 members. Private persons, organizations, companies, schools and libraries are members of the association. Members are offered different kind of packages, seminars and offers, books, magazines and other material of special nordic interest or concerning nordic issues. Like other interest groups, the Norden Association distribute publications on various themes of Nordic co-operation. The association's own magazine, "Nordens Tidning"  informs about actual nordic issues, it is published 4 times/year. The association also publishes a yearbook. The local branches of the association arrange studycircles, seminars, trips, study tours etc, with nordic issues and questions in focus.    
      
The Norden Association works with a broad variety of issues. Policy-making, information, friendship-towns systems, publications and mobilityprojects are important issues to the association. Targetgroups of the mobilityprojects administrated by the association are schools, both teachers and pupils; young people wanting to work in another nordic country: Nordjobb; russian and baltic managers wanting to learn the Swedish way of making business: Nordpraktik.    

From an organizational point of view, the Associations wish to act as modern interest groups and are anxious to strengthen Nordic co-operation in all fields. The policy-making function, the ambition to influence the official organs to take the necessary decisions is very important.