Children & young people
8 Oct 2024
Empowering youth to shape democracy at the Nordic Baltic Youth Summit
More than 250 young leaders from the Nordics and the Baltic countries gathered in Vilnius, Lithuania, for the first ever Nordic Baltic Youth [...]
Children & young people
18 Sep 2024
Ensuring good living conditions for children in low-income families
Families with a persistently low income suffer from economic, social and health challenges. Children growing up in these families risk exper [...]
Children & young people
8 Jul 2024
Nordic cooperation supports screening for domestic violence in the first 1000 days
Pregnancy and the first years of life are an important window of opportunity for screening for domestic and honour-related violence. In Swed [...]
Children & young people
17 Jun 2024
Young people have different views on mental health than authorities
Mental health is not just depression or the focus within healthcare on individual diagnoses. When youth representatives met to discuss menta [...]
Children & young people
22 May 2024
The Nordic Barnahus model examined in new book
The Barnahus model is designed to give support to children who have experienced violence and abuse, and make sure that they are not retrauma [...]
Children & young people
14 May 2024
New report will analyse Nordic pupils’ councils during the pandemic
What can we learn from pupil’s councils and youth participation during the pandemic? Researchers from the University of Iceland have start [...]
Children & young people
3 May 2024
Nordic youth organisations invited to raise their voice on mental wellbeing
What does youth need to increase mental wellbeing? That is one of the main questions that will be discussed when youth organisations meet fo [...]
Children & young people
26 Apr 2024
Spotlight on digital media and children’s and young people’s wellbeing
Children and young people spend a major part of their time online, and social media platforms are important parts of their social lives. The [...]
Children & young people
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 [...]
Children & young people
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 [...]
Children & young people
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 [...]
Children & young people
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 [...]
