In connection with the Session of the Nordic Council 2018, NordForsk organised the lunch seminar “Opportunities and challenges for Nordic health data research for Nordic members of parliament. The purpose of the seminar was to demonstrate the untapped potential for Nordic use of cooperation on health data, and to highlight existing barriers and bottlenecks that pose obstacles to Nordic research based on registry data. The 2018 session was held at the Storting in Oslo.
Since the war in Ukraine broke out, 300,000 Ukrainian refugees have been granted temporary residence in the Nordic region. What will happen to them when there is peace in Ukraine? The Yemelianenko family had to flee for their lives and now they dream of staying in Norway.
The results from a recently completed research project on gender equality within the IT industry show that both stereotypical perceptions of women and lacking encouragement of women to apply for technology subjects are the biggest obstacles to achieving gender equality in the field.
Since 2015, the European Union's migration policy has increasingly focused on migration control and border surveillance in Africa and the Middle East. New research shows the unintended consequences of this policy and recommends a more balanced approach.
Open Science and Open Access have become buzzwords we are hearing often these days. Fittingly, the value of Nordic and international cooperation in this field was discussed at the major NeIC 2019 conference Nordic Infrastructure for Open Science, held recently in Copenhagen. In connection with the conference, one of the pioneers of Nordic cooperation stated in an interview with NordForsk that Open Science makes the world a fairer place, where it is no longer just the wealthy who benefit from research.
Nordic countries are at the forefront of the green transition and are leading the way in the development of a more sustainable economy. But some regions succeed better than others. Why is this so, and how can other regions learn from them?
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.
