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Denmark's massive bid for youth employment and education tema

Denmark's massive bid for youth employment and education

Fighting youth unemployment is a top priority in Denmark. A range of new measures are in place to get more young people into education.
"More hard issues should be discussed at the Nordic Council" tema
| Nordics

"More hard issues should be discussed at the Nordic Council"

Protect democracy, fight fake news and protect biological diversity. These are issues on the agenda for Iceland’s 2020 Presidency of the Nordic Council. Another focus area is to improve knowledge of Nordic languages.
Nordic trade unions “too distant from rest of EU” nyhet

Nordic trade unions “too distant from rest of EU”

Who gains the most out of being a fly on the wall at the Council of Nordic Trade Unions congress in Oslo – the journalist or the social anthropologist? I suspect the latter, but since I am a journalist I will present the big news first: Iceland will host a tripartite meeting on green and just reform on 1 December 2023.
Fredrik Karlström works hard to make Åland more diversified interview
| Autonomy

Fredrik Karlström works hard to make Åland more diversified

Fredrik Karlström has become a veteran of Nordic labour market cooperation. The Minister for Industry and Trade in Åland’s government pops up in pictures everywhere in the Nordic Labour Journal archives. The first was taken in 2012, where he poses with Nordic colleagues on the quayside in Longyearbyen in Svalbard.
Estonia welcomes Sweden and Finland into Nato nyhet

Estonia welcomes Sweden and Finland into Nato

One year after Finland joined Nato, Sweden has also become part of the Nato family. This brings them together with Norway, Iceland and Denmark, members since the start in 1949.
Partnerships could create more jobs in Europe tema

Partnerships could create more jobs in Europe

Labour market measures and various types of training are not enough, no matter how good they are. Job creation is the crucial thing and it must happen through cooperation between the public and private sectors and civil society. These were some of the conclusions when labour market experts met at the annual Employment Forum in Brussels.
Danish Activation Centres provide link to working life tema

Danish Activation Centres provide link to working life

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.
Municipal job activation in the firing line innsikt

Municipal job activation in the firing line

Denmark has made municipalities solely responsible for job activation and employment projects for the unemployed in what has proved to be a very controversial reform.
Elves, dogs and reindeer suffer as tourists disappear from Arctic Circle nyhet
| Finland

Elves, dogs and reindeer suffer as tourists disappear from Arctic Circle

There seems to be more visitors to the post office than anywhere else in Rovaniemi’s Santa Claus Village – despite the risk of infection. Auli Sihvo has worked there for 20 years and seen how Santa has improved Lapland's commercial pulling-power.
Sounding the alarm for Nordic languages tema

Sounding the alarm for Nordic languages

Expectations are high for the updated declaration on a Nordic language policy which is now being implemented. New technology and digitalisation are included as tools to strengthen the smaller languages and interest in language. But will young people rather use English?
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