Northern Dimension Institute Policy Brief 6 – September 2019 Healthy ageing innovations in care for older residents of remote northern areas The number of older people is rising in all developed societies. Taking care of them is a tremendous challenge, especially in remote and rural areas. Our innovation is based on understanding the needs of older people living in remote …
A Science Communication Handbook is published in the framework of the NDI Think Tank Action. The Science Communication Handbook provides researchers with guidelines of effective science communication. The handbook includes practical tools and examples that will help researchers to plan communication and interaction to support their research projects goals. Science Communication Handbook (link to the PDF) The Handbook is based …
Northern Dimension Institute Policy Brief 5 – June 2019 Euro-Asian land transport links – opportunities for rail Growing trade volumes between Asia and Europe, changes in the goods structure and new localization patterns of industries and businesses in Asia and to some extent even in Europe in combination with strategic infrastructure and operational improvements on Euro-Asian land-routes, in particular by …
Northern Dimension Institute Policy Brief 3 – February 2019 Ensuring the Sustainability of Euro-Asian Transport Connections Growth in Euro-Asian trade and rising interest in the Arctic call for coordinated policies Trade volumes between EU and Asia, particularly China, are constantly growing, which challenges the capacity of existing Euro-Asian land and maritime connections. Together with trends in global logistics, such as …
Northern Dimension Institute Policy Brief 4 – January 2019 Healthy Ageing Calls for a Holistic Approach Ageing is a challenge and an opportunityBy 2020, the number of people aged 60 years and older will outnumber children younger than 5 years globally. This challenges ageing societies with increasing costs related to population ageing and with a growing need for …
Northern Dimension Institute Policy Brief 2 – January 2019 The curbing of black carbon emissions offers many benefits for the Arctic Black carbon emissions are a global problem with special significance for arctic regionsTemperatures in the Arctic are rising clearly faster than the global average temperatures. The main reason are increasing amount of greenhouse gases, but black carbon, …
Northern Dimension Institute Policy Brief 1 – January 2019 Designing innovative public services Contemporary challenges that ND area governments face are increasingly sophisticated and complex. This is due to the rapid development of technologies that blur the boundaries between the government and citizens, and because of societal changes such as ageing of the population and increasing immigration flows. …
Nordic Council of Ministers and Nordic Council of Ministers Secretariat have published the Nordic Bioeconomy Programme: 15 Action Points for Sustainable Change, which combines environmental, social and economic ambitions for a more sustainable Region. The bioeconomy is of fundamental importance to the national economies of the Nordic countries, and especially important for rural development in large parts of the Region. …
Nordic Council of Ministers has published a reprint of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ State of the Nordic Region 2018 about the Nordic Bioeconomy. Authors: Refsgaard, Karen Teräs, Jukka Kull, Michael Oddsson, Geir Jóhannesson, Torfi Kristensen, Iryna Abstract:The Rapidly Developing Nordic Bioeconomy is a reprint of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ State of the Nordic Region 2018. The …
Baltic Development Forum (BDF) has commissioned a report on the Baltic Sea Region economies. The report looks back at the economic journey of the BSR countries in the past 20 years. The report is written by Dr David Skilling, Director of the Landfall Strategy Group. Over the past two decades, the Baltic Sea Region – from the Baltic states …
