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Renewcell awarded the Nordic Council Environment Prize for clothes recycling

Renewcell awarded the Nordic Council Environment Prize for clothes recycling

Swedish company Renewcell has won the 2023 Nordic Council Environment Prize for its groundbreaking solution for recycling and reusing textiles into new clothes and products.

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Iceland’s Labour Minister: Challenges of a fair green transition must be faced together

Iceland’s Labour Minister: Challenges of a fair green transition must be faced together

Guðmundur Ingi Guðbrandsson has been Iceland’s Minister of Social Affairs, Labour and Nordic Cooperation since 2021. In that role, he has led Iceland’s Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers this year and will chair a summit with representatives from Nordic trade unions, employers and governments in Reykjavik in December.

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Nordic preparedness put to the test

Rarely has the scout motto been more apt than right now. When the leader says “Be prepared!” the scouts answer “Always prepared!”

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Info Norden: 25 years of facilitating Nordic movement

Info Norden: 25 years of facilitating Nordic movement

For the past 25 years, Info Norden has been answering questions and learning things from people who want to move between Nordic countries in order to live, work, study or start a business. Info Norden is now seen as an important part of the Nordic Vision 2030 – to be the most sustainable and integrated region in the world.

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The need to facilitate mobility in the Nordics

“My ambition is to make commuting within the Nordic region as unhindered by red tape as possible, both for the worker and the employer. And cross-border commuters should be able to work from home without it having consequences for the amount of tax they pay.”

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Karen Ellemann – Nordic through and through

Karen Ellemann – Nordic through and through

The Nordic Council of Ministers’ new Secretary General takes on responsibility for the Nordic cooperation as challenges are piling up – on security policy, the environment and the Nordic model itself. But she is an incurable optimist and believes the Nordic vision can be achieved.

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The future of the Nordics depends on journalism

The future of the Nordics depends on journalism

Journalism plays a crucial role in how the Nordic countries face current and future challenges. What, where, when, how and not least why must be reported by independent media employing well-informed journalists. The keywords for the Nordic Journalist Centre are knowledge sharing and networks.

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More culture, less bureaucracy – the keys to a more mobile Nordic labour market

More culture, less bureaucracy – the keys to a more mobile Nordic labour market

By 2030, the Nordics should be the world’s most integrated, sustainable and competitive region. The open Nordic labour market is key to fulfilling that ambition. But mobility is low and may need to be stimulated by administrative and cultural measures, according to recent research.

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LAMPA – Latvian democracy festival with Nordic inspiration

LAMPA – Latvian democracy festival with Nordic inspiration

To strengthen democratic conversation culture through the exchange of ideas and by seeking understanding between people of diverse opinions. That is the purpose of the Latvian LAMPA festival, which has grown bigger each year since its inception in 2015.

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Estonia and the Nordics – from aid to equal cooperation

Estonia and the Nordics – from aid to equal cooperation

At the Nordic Council of Ministers’ office in Tallinn, they will happily tell the story of how the Estonian President Lennart Meri regularly used to visit the information office in 1991.

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