At the same time NordForsk is happy to announce that the United Kingdom has decided to increase its contribution from 1 to 2 million GBP. The plan is to fund up to 10 research and innovation projects.
Living on 18 small islands in the North Atlantic, the Faroese people are used to wild weather. But what should they be doing to prepare for the increasingly extreme storms caused by climate change? Researchers warn that the climate debate often overlooks the Nordic Region’s smaller communities.
The deadline for a call for proposals for projects on research to combat the COVID-19 pandemic was June 16. The call is a collaborative effort between research funders from the Nordic countries, Estonia and Latvia.
Two ongoing research studies funded by NordForsk are providing important new knowledge about COVID-19 related to pregnancy and mental health. The director of NordForsk emphasises how the Nordic Region is leading the way in research on health data.
The ultimate goal of PHATE is to provide comprehensive risk assessments and adaptation tools that account for the large-scale oceanic processes and the ecological connectivity of the Arctic region.
The ALAMOT project seeks to explore how legal and policy frameworks are currently being implemented and how they can be used to respond to and shape the actions of diverse stakeholders in the Arctic.
For hundreds of thousands of years, human species have migrated across the globe. An interdisciplinary research team has found stone tools used by early humans in Tajikistan and is looking into how our ancestors lived to understand our evolutionary past.
