Society

“Research is very valuable to our work,” says Marit Endresen, Director of Department at the Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection.

Shorter spells of night work, more time to recover between shifts, and increased individual work-time control. These are some of the recommendations from an extensive Nordic research project funded by NordForsk.

Bengt Sundelius is chair of the programme committee for NordForsk’s Nordic Societal Security Programme. We asked him to identify some of the challenges facing the Nordic region at this very moment.

The seven PostDoc fellowship applications to the call under the Nordic Neutron Science Programme are from Swedish and Danish universities.

Societal security has high priority on the Nordic political agenda, but it would be simplistic to paint the Nordic region as completely uniform, says authors behind newly published book