NordForsk’s new initiative will promote high-quality interdisciplinary research that combines and integrate skills from multiple disciplines. The first call for proposals under the Nordic Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research has a budget of NOK 120 million and the deadline for submissions is 13 November 2019.
The Nordic region is a world leader in digitalisation, also in the area known as the Internet of Things. This gives us a unique opportunity to promote sustainability and a circular economy, according to the authors of a new report.
The objective of the Nordic Bioeconomy initiative is to generate new knowledge on how to promote and advance the transition to a bioeconomy-based society in the Nordic countries.
Personalised medicine is an important priority area for the Nordic co-operation in medical research. Nordic universities have now joined forces to set up a massive open online course (MOOC) targeting personalised medicine where medical experts from the Nordic countries have contributed.
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.
