Nordic research shows that there were no negative risks associated with pregnant women receiving the COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic. On the contrary, there were benefits for both the pregnant woman and the unborn child.
Combined with insights into the social, environmental, economic and demographic context, our effort will yield a deep quantitative understanding of past pandemics that will allow us to draw a detailed picture of pandemic and epidemic diseases in the pre-modern era.
New safety assessments of epilepsy medication are initiated because a Nordic research study concludes that epilepsy medication during pregnancy can lead to autism and intellectual disability in children.
NordForsk is issuing a call under the Nordic-Russian Cooperation Initiative in Higher Education and Research, and encourages research projects with partners in Greenland to apply for funding with an additional fund. The call has a budget of approximately NOK 2 million and the deadline is 17 October 2019.
Interdisciplinary research projects on everything from narwhal tusks to asylum policy and pandemic history are delivering game-changing results for the Nordics. This is the conclusion from committee head Jan Philip Solovej.
The Nordic Centre of Excellence (NCoE) Initiative on Food, Nutrition and Health is a joint effort to enhance the scientific quality and international visibility of Nordic research within this field.
Funding is expected to be provided for up to eight research and innovation projects. The decision regarding which projects will be awarded funding will be taken in late autumn 2020.
