NordForsk; the Academy of Finland; Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development; Forte, the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare; the Swedish Energy Agency and the Research Council of Norway are issuing a call for proposals under the Nordic Research Programme on Sustainable Urban Development and Smart Cities. The call has a budget of NOK 50 million and the deadline for the call for proposals is 4 June 2019.
Neither digital technologies, software, nor procurement processes connected to the digitalisation of the police and law enforcement are neutral or technocratic. They are deeply politicised and embed different kinds of notions about the future and political choices, researchers claim.
Nordic societal security in light of the emerging global and regional trends is the title of the call for proposals which drew 28 proposals. The plan is to fund up to four projects from a total budget of NOK 44 million.
The aim of Critical Understanding of Predictive Policing is to investigate how institutional and social values, digital affordances, and organizational politics are conceived and embedded in data-driven police innovations.
We pride ourselves on a Nordic school model where everyone has equal access to education, but that was not necessarily the case for all students when the pandemic was upon us, new research suggests.
Hate speech and actions break down social cohesion, increase tensions between groups and create enemy images. Researchers suggest how the Nordic countries can avoid further polarisation.
Remote and flexible working arrangements became common during the pandemic. But how well does it really work? A Nordic-Baltic research project is investigating the consequences of the new working life for managers and employees.
The threats from the American president have made the Greenlandic population to demand their rights and raise their voices, says PhD student Arnarak Patricia Bloch.
