Society has much to gain from enhancing the effectiveness of the health sector, and funding is now available for research projects aimed at developing innovative products, services and concepts that can be implemented in a practical manner in the health and welfare systems.
The Nordic Programme on Health and Welfare seeks to meet the need for increased Nordic research cooperation within health and welfare. Funding is available for research projects addressing inequalities in the distribution of health and welfare.
Nordic Trial Alliance aims to increase the number of clinical trials in the Nordic region. A call has been issued with 6 million Norwegian kroner aimed to support ongoing Nordic clinical research studies or expansion of ongoing national studies into Nordic ones.
The project will approach educational inclusion from a holistic and an intersectional perspective highlighting ethnicity, social class, gender, and educational needs when comparing the three cities: Helsinki, Reykjavik and Amsterdam.
The Nordic Centre of Excellence «Quality in Nordic Teaching» (QUINT) will focus on teaching quality in Nordic classrooms asking questions like: In what way does teaching make a difference to student learning and engagement across and within school subjects, with and without digital-rich support, in mono- and multi-cultural contexts across the Nordic countries? How can classroom videos be effective tools for teacher training? Does the use of video-technology and other digital systems generate potential for new forms of collaborative research between researchers and practitioners?
Current societal changes put pressure on the values and political ideals underlying the Nordic democratic educational project and its practical realisation. JustED focuses on the crucial question: How do systems, cultures and actors in education facilitate and constrain justice in the context of globalising Nordic welfare states?
The overall goal of the Nordic initiative on Health and Welfare is to improve health in the Nordic countries by finding solutions to societal and public health challenges through high-quality research.
The Nordic Societal Security initiative is a multidisciplinary research area designed to generate new knowledge about what is required to ensure the safety and security of the Nordic countries' inhabitants.
The aim of the NordForsk Initiative for Interdisciplinary Research is to promote excellent bottom-up research that combines and integrate skills from multiple disciplines.
The aim of the research area is to promote cooperation between the knowledge communities in the Nordic countries in order to enhance opportunities and address challenges to sustainable urban development and smart cities
