Navigation

Newsletter

Subscribe to the latest news from the Nordic Labour Journal by e-mail. The newsletter is issued 9 times a year. Subscription is free of charge.

(Required)

Tags

Editorial

Will we get the artificial intelligence we deserve?

Aug 26, 2024 The Nordic countries have a special responsibility to influence the development of AI systems to ensure they are safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory, and environmentally friendly.
Swedish hospital uses AI to the benefit of patients and staff tema

Swedish hospital uses AI to the benefit of patients and staff

Aug 26, 2024 What are the challenges with AI and which are the good examples that can be replicated? Skåne University Hospital is already using AI to diagnose and treat cancer patients. We look at AI in Skåne from three angles, inspired by the new technology at Skåne University Hospital.
Nordic Innovation at 50 – AI important now, but where are we in 2073? tema

Nordic Innovation at 50 – AI important now, but where are we in 2073?

Aug 26, 2024 “Everyone” is talking about AI these days. Nordic Innovation’s 50-year-old history shows that they were engaged in AI projects as early as the 1980s.
Danish AI cuts wind turbine downtime tema

Danish AI cuts wind turbine downtime

Aug 26, 2024 Danish Reblade uses AI to help drones land safely on wind turbine blades to carry out repairs using robot technology. The company also uses AI to recruit the best talent from around the world.
Finland wants to teach the world more about AI tema

Finland wants to teach the world more about AI

Aug 26, 2024 In the 1990s, Finland performed magic with mobile telephony and technology. Now the country wants to become a leader in artificial intelligence. The message is being spread around the world through a Finnish training program that has already taught a million people elementary AI.
“Develop a Nordic AI strategy or get overtaken by multinationals” tema

“Develop a Nordic AI strategy or get overtaken by multinationals”

Aug 26, 2024 The Nordic region should develop a common strategy for ethical AI. That is the conclusion from an expert group that has studied Nordic collaboration on artificial intelligence.
The Norwegian automated ferry that can be operated as easily as a lift tema

The Norwegian automated ferry that can be operated as easily as a lift

Aug 26, 2024 A wide range of new workplaces could become available in the wake of autonomous ferries.
Iceland ditches crypto mining for AI: “A great opportunity for Nordic data centres” tema

Iceland ditches crypto mining for AI: “A great opportunity for Nordic data centres”

Aug 26, 2024 The number of data centres has increased rapidly in Iceland in the last few years. Critics say they mostly serve crypto mining, which is not considered the most useful way to use valuable green energy.
Everyone talks about AI, but is it not just more digitalisation? tema

Everyone talks about AI, but is it not just more digitalisation?

Aug 26, 2024 What is the difference between artificial intelligence and normal digitalisation? What will be the consequences for the labour market? Will it lead to more jobs or fewer?
News

Mixed Nordic reception for EU traineeship directive

Aug 22, 2024 Once again, the European Commission is proposing regulations on matters that the member states manage best themselves, argues the Swedish parliament. It is now submitting a “yellow card” against the Commission's proposal for an EU directive on better conditions for trainees, put forward in spring 2024.
Young Norwegians increasingly unhappy with working life News

Young Norwegians increasingly unhappy with working life

Aug 15, 2024 The 2024 Working Life Barometer shows more people are struggling financially, more fear losing their jobs or becoming ill and many young people are unhappy with working life.
Editorial

The Nordic labour market turns 70 – but is it being fully explored?

Jun 20, 2024 Being able to work in a neighbouring Nordic country without applying for a work or residency permit is a given for Nordic citizens. But why do we no longer do it?
Hyllie – the district that symbolises the Nordic labour market tema

Hyllie – the district that symbolises the Nordic labour market

Jun 20, 2024 A private initiative became the beginning of a dynamic district halfway between Malmö Central and Copenhagen Airport. The Eurovision Song Contest was recently staged here and in June, participants this week gathered to celebrate 70 years of the common Nordic labour market.
Swedish minister: Still room for improvement to the common Nordic labour market tema

Swedish minister: Still room for improvement to the common Nordic labour market

Jun 20, 2024 Sweden’s Minister for Employment Johan Pehrson has painted a picture of the Nordic region as a beacon in northern Europe, offering hope and opportunities to people. But what does the agreement on the common Nordic labour market really mean beyond what is already regulated by the EU?
Fresh report: Nordic citizens can work anywhere in the region. So why don’t they? tema

Fresh report: Nordic citizens can work anywhere in the region. So why don’t they?

Jun 20, 2024 It would seem we are so comfortable in our home countries that we see few reasons to apply for work in or move to a different Nordic country.
What does the common Nordic labour market mean to you? tema

What does the common Nordic labour market mean to you?

Jun 20, 2024 The Nordic Labour Journal asked some of the participants at the conference marking 70 years of the common labour market what it means to them – personally or for their respective countries' labour markets.
National rules dominate the common Nordic labour market tema

National rules dominate the common Nordic labour market

Jun 20, 2024 A new Øresund agreement has been signed. But there are still challenges facing commuters who regularly cross a Nordic national border to get to work.
Danielle - from Party Swede to seamstress tema

Danielle - from Party Swede to seamstress

Jun 20, 2024 Like tens of thousands of other Swedish youths, Danielle Backström travelled to Norway to work. She became one of the “Party Swedes” who worked in restaurants, cafés and bars. Since then, she has worked as a home carer and with plants. Now, she is training to become a seamstress.
The story of the common Nordic labour market tema

The story of the common Nordic labour market

Jun 20, 2024 The common Nordic labour market was established with little fanfare in 1954. Yet over time it has become one of the main pillars of the Nordic cooperation.
“It had to be the Nordics” – why a Danish priest chose Norway tema

“It had to be the Nordics” – why a Danish priest chose Norway

Jun 20, 2024 Anne Anker Bolstad is one of many Danish priests working in Norway, where there is a great priest shortage.
a
This is themeComment