Funktionshinder
25 apr 2024
Personer med funktionsnedsättning drabbas hårt av ekonomiska nedskärningar
När ekonomin stramas åt får det stora effekter för personer med funktionsnedsättning. Hur illa är läget i Norden just nu? Och hur kan [...]
Välfärdspolitik
17 apr 2024
Lyft fram välfärdsfrågorna i kommande Helsingforsavtal
Förra sommaren tillsatte Nordiska rådet en arbetsgrupp med uppgift att diskutera en revidering av Helsingforsavtalet, ett avtal som brukar [...]
Dövblindhet
10 apr 2024
New publication about living with CHARGE syndrome
Our new publication Re-CHARGE – Voices about living with CHARGE syndrome, presents a series of case studies and interviews. One of the fea [...]
Barn & unga
28 mar 2024
The Nordic Youth Summit is expanding to the Baltics
Lithuania will be hosting the first Nordic-Baltic Youth Summit. After two successful Nordic Youth Summits, the arena is expanding to encompa [...]
Barn & unga
1 feb 2024
“Leaders rarely talked to children”
“Decision-makers were poorly prepared to hear and involve youth during the pandemic.” That is what the majority of the 120 youth partic [...]
Funktionshinder
30 jan 2024
Nyttan av universell utformning går att mäta – men metoderna och utmaningarna är många
Universell utformning handlar om att från början skapa lösningar som fungerar för så många som möjligt. Men kostar det mer att utform [...]
Barn & unga
29 jan 2024
Don’t cherry-pick a youth “alibi”!
Don’t just use youth to put a stamp of approval on decisions they weren’t part of! That is one of the five principles that The Norwegian [...]
Barn & unga
6 dec 2023
120 youth signed action plan for the future at summit in Iceland
Environment, education, and youth participation. Those were some of the most intensely debated topics when 120 young persons from the Nordic [...]
Välfärdspolitik
28 nov 2023
Nordic cities strengthen their work for age-friendly cities
Building age-friendly cities and communities can reduce public spending on healthcare and social care, while making use of the resource that [...]
Välfärdspolitik
22 nov 2023
Age-friendly communities help us stay healthy and active
By 2040, about 25 per cent of the Nordic population will be aged 65 or older. But we're not ageing evenly everywhere. For over a decade, Nat [...]
Funktionshinder
9 nov 2023
New technology makes the labour market more inclusive, but several big challenges lay ahead
Persons with disabilities are employed to a lesser extent than the rest of the population. At an expert seminar in Copenhagen, solutions for [...]
Funktionshinder
6 nov 2023
Universal design – from visions to practice in everyday life
The visionary thinking of universal design, and the transition of the idea and values into practice in everyday life in the Nordic countries [...]