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Creating synergies for life science cooperation in the Öresund Region nyhet

Creating synergies for life science cooperation in the Öresund Region

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.
Disabilities vs. the labour market nyhet

Disabilities vs. the labour market

Young people with disabilities and their access to the labour market will receive special focus when Sweden takes the helm at the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2008.
Metoo - also at the Oslo ministers' meeting nyhet
| Dec 2017, #metoo

Metoo - also at the Oslo ministers' meeting

"This is a huge thing," says an engaged Ylva Johansson, Sweden's Minister for Employment. The working environment was a topic for debate during the Oslo labour ministers' meeting. There she explained the scale of #metoo in Sweden. Next year her country will be heading the Nordic Council of Ministers, focussing on integration, the future of work and measures to stop work-related crime.
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Will platform companies fit into the Nordic model?

Does the Uber driver have an employer? Is the ‘self-employed’ actually an employee? And what will the zero hours worker live from if he or she does not get to work enough hours?
Work environment gives Nordic growth sectors competitive edge innsikt

Work environment gives Nordic growth sectors competitive edge

How can the Nordic region face the challenges of growing globalisation? Where is the potential for growth and rising employment? Nordic researchers recommend measures which could help authorities and businesses make better use of growth opportunities.
The research project against all odds: Olli Kangas on Finland’s universal basic income tema

The research project against all odds: Olli Kangas on Finland’s universal basic income

Does Finland’s experiment with a universal basic income prove that this could be a solution for the future? We will not know until 2020. But in one way, the research project has already been a success – the fact that it was possible to carry it out at all.
Faroe Islands heading for dream target – 50,000 citizens tema
| Feb 2017

Faroe Islands heading for dream target – 50,000 citizens

For several months – in fact for many years – the Faroese have been waiting for the magical number 50,000. And it is about to arrive! The latest official update says 49,820, the real figure is even closer to 50,000 and it is now only a matter of weeks.
New challenges for working life research tema
| Oct 2015

New challenges for working life research

Big Data is the new buzzword for the enormous increase in stored information across the world. But how will this information stream influence working life and working life research?
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| June 2016

”Trade unions must organise people working though platforms”

The sharing economy represents a challenge to the labour market as we know it. In the face of this development, the Swedish trade union Unionen has just entered an agreement with German IG Metall. The aim is to find tools for how to organise the growing part of the labour force which works through online platforms.
Iceland starting to ponder EU membership tema

Iceland starting to ponder EU membership

Iceland applied for EU membership in 2009, after the collapse of the banking system almost bankrupted the country. The government at the time, led by the EU-friendly Social Democratic Party, believed membership was vital for financial stability. The Euro was also seen as better than the small and unstable krona.
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