The Faroe Islands’ recent membership of NordForsk’s board marked an important step on the way to a greater role in Nordic research co-operation. According to various groups, the Faroe Islands has a significant contribution to make in the areas of oceans and fishing, health and the Arctic.
Research shows that vulnerable citizens are excluded from the digitalisation process. A major problem is the lack of the involvement of citizens in the development of future public digital services. In a project funded by NordForsk, researchers want to carry out what they call an intervention in Nordic public libraries for the benefit of both service developers and vulnerable citizens.
Increased extreme weather in the Nordic countries will increase the risk of weather-related crises. Therefore, Fire and Rescue Services should receive specialised training to deal with longer and more violent natural events, according to Nordic researchers.
Based on an initiative from the deans of the Nordic medical schools, the Joint Committee of the Nordic Medical Research Councils (NOS-M) has decided to fund a Nordic online course for medical students in personalised medicine.
There was a time when disinformation and conspiracy theories mostly were associated with uneducated and marginalized people. Today, we are witnessing a shift, and it has now become a strategic tool also for Nordic mainstream-politics.
The world’s push for clean energy depends on critical minerals such as lithium and rare earth elements. But while they are essential to cutting emissions, their extraction often threatens fragile environments and Indigenous livelihoods.
KOMKRIS examines how Nordic and Baltic societies enhance societal resilience and crisis governance in the face of increasingly complex and hybrid antagonistic threats, such as disinformation, violent radicalisation, and geopolitical tensions.
Nordic cities have qualities to draw on when it comes to greenspace, social inclusion and public health. But they are also segregated, characterised by health-related divides and by differences in accessibility to urban amenities. Without careful consideration the health and well-being of city-dwellers can be negatively influenced in overly densified and congested cities, despite sustainability ambitions.
