Forests are home to a rich variety of flora and fauna, and are important for climate change mitigation and a large timber industry. How do you design a forest policy that takes all these considerations into account? Finland is a pioneer.
In these projects, there’s a large proportion of young women researchers and the content of the projects ranges widely from political communication, Viking warriors, homelessness, old law books, popular culture, and older migrant groups to research on refugees from Ukraine.
The Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NOS-HS) receives 106 applications under call for proposals for funding covering a series of Nordic exploratory workshops.
Major advancements in many fields now make it possible to personalise medical treatment. Still, there are too few products facilitating this in practice, particularly when it comes to treatment that patients themselves carry out at home. The Nordic POP project is looking to change this. “Our goal is to develop pharmaceutical products and technological solutions of the future, where personalised medical treatment is the common link,” says Professor Ingunn Tho of the Nordic POP project and the University of Oslo School of Pharmacy.
NordicPATH’s overall objective is to establish a new model for citizens’ participation and collaborative planning in Nordic countries to create healthy and people-centred cities. The project is tackling complex environmental impacts such as air quality and climate change and is developing a method specifically targeted for the governance and the conditions of the Nordic countries with potential replicability and scalability to other countries.
Increased out-of-classroom interaction and sharing of tacit knowledge among school staff helps create better environments for migrant students to integrate and feel like they belong at school, shows NordForsk funded project.
Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland have welcomed many Ukrainian refugees since Russia invaded the country two and a half years ago. But as the war drags on, governments are starting to change course.
Research-based knowledge is essential for a successful green transition. NordForsk has decided to fund ten research projects on the green transition in the Nordic and Baltic states.
We are living in a time of multiple crises, and now researchers want to investigate the resilience of Nordic families with children. If families with children are doing well, it strengthens the resilience of society, according to the researchers.
New university co-operation educates next generation of researchers in precision psychiatry. The aim is to develop and implement new tools for disease prediction and personalised treatment.
