The Nordic Council of Ministers has commissioned NordForsk to initiate a call on Sustainable fisheries from healthy seas. Available budget is NOK 40 million, and the call deadline is 28 May 2024.
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.
It is difficult to sell salmon in the chiller cabinet if it tastes and smells bad. Unwanted bacteria in the farming ponds cause bad odour, but now researchers are coming up with possible solutions.
Farmed salmon in the Nordic countries are fed soya from Brazil. Now researchers are proposing Nordic-produced raw materials as a sustainable supplement.
The research call on Green Transition had a closing date of 5 December. NordForsk received 112 applications by the deadline. The applications include researchers from all the Nordic and Baltic countries.
Livestock are important for food security. In the DigiVet project the researchers have studied how livestock data is currently used across the Nordics, the United Kingdom and Estonia, and how technology regulatory frameworks might provide societal benefit by improving the public-interest uses of these data.
Many of the textiles produced today have a huge impact on the environment. Consequently, Nordic researchers have now developed prototypes of what could become the sustainable textiles of tomorrow.
