Employers and authorities need to update their understanding of what is needed in the future labour market. It’s not about what they think is needed today, but about what will be needed tomorrow.
During the pandemic, we experienced the greatest encroachment on our freedom since the Second World War. Now Nordic researchers are investigating whether the measures were proportionate.
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.
During the pandemic, the authorities introduced support programmes for companies to avoid laying off employees. Some called it a sleeping pillow, others a necessary measure. Now research shows that the subsidies may have helped the Nordic countries avoid an economic downturn.
NordForsk announces funding for one Nordic research school to strengthen collaboration among Nordic universities and enhance the quality of innovation and entrepreneurship research.
For hundreds of thousands of years, human species have migrated across the globe. An interdisciplinary research team has found stone tools used by early humans in Tajikistan and is looking into how our ancestors lived to understand our evolutionary past.
NordForsk has received 87 applications for a call on antagonistic threats. The research will generate new knowledge to increase societal security in the Nordic and Baltic region.
The Nordic and Baltic countries are facing challenges due to a growing elderly population. NordForsk has awarded funding to seven projects that will generate knowledge to help prepare and equip the health and social care systems for these demographic changes.
