The Nordic Committee on Bioethics recently organised the conference Bioethics of clinical innovation and unproven methods in collaboration with Centre for Legal Studies in Welfare and Market at the University of Copenhagen. How are clinical innovations and unproven methods developed and introduced in western Nordic health-care systems? What is the legal and regulatory environment concerning unproven methods in medicine? What ethical principles should guide work on emerging treatments and experimentation in hospitals? These three questions were addressed in separate sessions in a day of fruitful discussions.
NordForsk is now issuing a call for proposals for research and innovation projects on digitalisation of the public sector. The call has a budget of EUR 7,4 million and the deadline for submissions is 16 January 2020.
More than three million farmed salmon die each year in the Faroe Islands. A Nordic research project reveals that heart conditions are among the causes of the high mortality rate.
What is "Nordic added value", and how is this concept understood and utilised by stakeholders in Nordic co-operation? This is the subject of a study conducted by researchers at the University of Helsinki.
If the Nordic region is to be the most integrated region in the world by 2030, the conventions on taxes, labour market, and social rights should match today's more complicated work and family life, writes Johan Strang.
The goal of this project is to, for the first time, create a joint Nordic long-term academic collaboration on pandemic preparedness using advanced mathematical modelling and systematically collected health data from a broad range of sources.
How can small communities in the Nordic region prepare for climate change? Nordic researchers have analysed the preparedness measures of local communities and come up with new recommendations on how they can further strengthen their preparedness.
Multidisciplinary project with the aim of producing new scientific knowledge on the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on child wellbeing and identifies policy options to enhance child-wellbeing and resilience in Nordic countries.
