Wastewater can be an important source of knowledge about antimicrobial resistance. Wastewater treatment plants should therefore be part of the emergency response strategy to notify authorities of precursors to potentially dangerous events, according to new research.
The Nordic Council of Ministers has commissioned NordForsk to initiate a call on Sustainable fisheries from healthy seas. Available budget is NOK 40 million, and the call deadline is 28 May 2024.
Six projects will explore the medium to long-term consequences beyond the COVID-19 pandemic in order to better prepare for the next crisis and two projects will provide knowledge for handling the societal security consequences of an antimicrobial resistance crisis.
A new NordForsk funded research project will examine the concept of Nordic added value in research, and why Nordic added value is so important in the era we live in.
Around 40 percent of the project leaders who have sent applications are female, and around 60 percent are men. All Nordic countries including the Åland Islands, Greenland and the Faroe Islands are represented in the pile of applications.
The "Happy Salmon" project aims is to contribute with knowledge and solutions for a successful Atlantic salmon smolt production using novel sustainable feeds and that are applicable in modern recirculating landbased farming systems.
NordForsk is issuing a call for proposals on Japan–Nordic collaborations on health data research. The call has a total budget of approximately NOK 25 million, and the deadline for the call for proposals is 7 October 2021.
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.
What can we learn about COVID-19 by studying the 18th-century smallpox epidemics and other past pandemics? A new Nordic research project will make use of Nordic health data to study pandemics from a historical perspective to better prepare the Nordic region for future pandemics.
