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Creating synergies for life science cooperation in the Öresund Region
Feb 27, 2023 Is a bridge enough to expand the common labour market in the Öresund region, or is more needed? The answer from Medicon Valley Alliances’ CEO is: We must also become better at identifying and using the factors that benefit both Denmark and Sweden and explore the potential of this.
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Crises test the strength of the Nordic welfare models
Sep 07, 2011 The economic crisis hit Iceland like a hurricane. The political power balance in Finland ended up being radically different after the June election and one month later Norway suffered a terror attack. But the challenges also demonstrate the Nordic welfare society’s strength.
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Cross-border education at the Cap of the North extended
Oct 23, 2015 Since 1991 Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian youths on at the Cap of the North have been able to meet and get vocational training under the auspices of Utbildning Nord (Education North) — a unique cross-border education strategy. On 19 October the scheme was extended until 2019.
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Oct 2016
Cycling into the future
Oct 14, 2016 There are great digital ambitions in the Nordic region: “Sweden will be a world leader in exploiting the opportunities of digitalisation”. Danish businesses will be “among the best in Europe when it comes to using IT”. But despite the grand words, there is also a worry that the Nordic region is lagging behind countries like the USA and China.
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Dagfinn Høybråten’s new Nordic project: health cooperation
Oct 08, 2013 Much tighter cooperation between Nordic health services is in the pipeline and if it succeeds the cooperation model can easily be expanded to include other policy areas which would help develop the Nordic welfare model. That’s the vision of the project’s chief architect, Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers Dagfinn Høybråten.
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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.
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Danish Activation Centres provide link to working life
Oct 03, 2010 There's no better place to train for working life than in a workplace. That's the basic idea of Denmark's new Activation Centres. They work with the most challenging group of unemployed people, yet results are good. David Andersen is supported by his mentor Tina Andersen at the Kvickly supermarket.
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Danish expert: Support young people to get pregnant, not to freeze their eggs
Mar 25, 2024 Female employees in large American companies can have their eggs frozen and delay having children – as a workplace benefit. A leading Danish infertility expert recommends Nordic employers and governments take an opposite approach and support young people to have children while they are students or newly employed.
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Danish foundation supporting more research on welfare states
Jan 28, 2022 The Rockwool Foundation has shares in a major Danish industrial concern and billions of kroner in assets which help fund research into the welfare state’s challenges. That is the kind of research the Nordics need more of, believes the foundation’s president Elin Schmidt.
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