19
May
2021
Disability issues
Tactile Language Part 5: Language development in the tactile modality through outdoor activities
How do we communicate with someone without using our vision or hearing? There are many ways for communication partners to support and help d [...]
25
May
2021
Disability issues
Inclusive future of work
Technological and digital development is advancing at a furious pace. Artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and new ways of performing t [...]
2
Jun
2021
Disability issues
Climbing the wall: Assessment of cognition through video analysis
Climbing can be used to assess cognition in persons with congenital deafblindness. It can be particularly valuable when it comes to observin [...]
10
Jun
2021
Welfare policy
Webinar on: Åldersvänliga städer i coronapandemin – utmaningar och nya lösningar
Vilka utmaningar har de nordiska åldersvänliga städerna mött under coronapandemin? Vilka nya lösningar har man tagit fram för att frä [...]
8
10
Sep
2021
Public health
Nordic Alcohol and Drug Researchers' Assembly 2021 (NADRA)
Due to the uncertain situation with the coronavirus pandemic we have decided once again to postpone the Nordic Alcohol and Drug Researchers [...]
14
16
Sep
2021
Disability issues
Today’s knowledge for tomorrow’s actions – a Nordic perspective on Deafblindness
Due to the uncertain situation with the coronavirus pandemic we have decided to postpone the conference. Today's knowledge for tomorrow's ac [...]
8
2021
9
Dec
2022
Welfare policy
Nordic Welfare Forum 2021: The Nordic model and social sustainability
In times of crisis, the Nordic welfare model is challenged. It usually copes relatively well and retains its strength and stability. This is [...]
Completed
11
May
2021
Completed
Integration
Segregation, Covid-19 and living conditions - myths meet research
Why has the pandemic hit immigrant groups the hardest? The media picture and the political argumentation in for example Denmark, claim that [...]
Completed
21
Apr
2021
Completed
Welfare policy
Indigenous people and dementia assessment
“Ultimately, this is a matter of legal certainty. While a dementia examination of a Sami person consists of the same elements as an examin [...]
Completed
15
Apr
2021
Completed
Disability issues
Tactile Language Part 4: Language must be sensorily accessible
How do we communicate with someone without using our vision or hearing? There are many ways for communication partners to support and help d [...]
Completed
8
Apr
2021
Completed
Disability issues
Humour and playfulness within social cognition
“To share laughter with another not only reveals a moment of shared connection within a communicative partnership but may also reveal some [...]
Completed
23
Mar
2021
Completed
Disability issues
See, listen and include! Participation for children and young people with disabilities in the Nordic region
Welcome to our webinar about participation for children and youth with disabilities in the Nordic countries. In the webinar we explore the u [...]
Completed
8
9
Mar
2021
Completed
Disability issues
Seminar on mobility and sign language in the Nordic countries
Seminariet flyttas fram och nya datum meddelas i maj 2021. Hur funkar det för teckenspråkiga att flytta mellan de nordiska länderna? Vilk [...]
Completed
5
Mar
2021
Completed
Disability issues
Tactile Language Part 3: When Trine says GRANDMA… What is on her mind?
How do we communicate with someone without using our vision or hearing? There are many ways for communication partners to support and help d [...]
Completed
24
Feb
2021
Completed
Integration
Webinar: om negativ social kontroll och hedersförtryck ur ett nordiskt perspektiv
De nordiska länderna har kommit olika långt i ambitionen att inga kvinnor eller män ska utsättas för negativ social kontroll/ hedersrel [...]
Completed
19
Feb
2021
Completed
Disability issues
Tactile Language Part 2: Partners’ contribution to language development in a bodily tactile modality
How do we communicate with someone without using our vision or hearing? There are many ways for communication partners to support and help d [...]
Completed
21
Jan
2021
Completed
Disability issues
Tactile Language Part 1: A circle model
How do we communicate with someone without using our vision or hearing? There are many ways for communication partners to support and help d [...]
Completed
10
Dec
2020
Completed
Welfare policy
Welfare in Sparsely Populated Areas - The Organisation of Healthcare and Social Services
One of the greatest challenges facing the sparsely populated areas of the Nordic region is the recruitment and retention of staff in the hea [...]
Completed
9
Dec
2020
Completed
Welfare policy
Nordic welfare forum 2020 - save the date
Nordic welfare forum 2020 is postponed to 2021 [...]
Completed
3
Dec
2020
Completed
Integration
Young refugees in Nordic countries - health, education and employment in an equity perspective
This online conference is based on results from the cross-disciplinary Nordic research project Coming of Age in Exile (CAGE) on the health, [...]
Completed
30
Nov
2020
Completed
Disability issues
Save the date: Today’s knowledge for tomorrow’s actions – a Nordic perspective on Deafblindness
Continuing development of services for people with deafblindness depend on innovation, research and technology. What do we see now – and w [...]
Completed
27
Nov
2020
Completed
Disability issues
How can future workplaces work better for people with disabilities?
New technologies, as Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have a significant impact on the future of work. But what do we know about how it wil [...]
Completed
25
26
Nov
2020
Completed
Disability issues
Webinar: En egen stämma - dialogisk praxis i kommunikation
Under två eftermiddagar håller vi detta webbinarium med teorier om kommunikativa relationer och exempel på hur du kan använda dessa teor [...]
Completed
19
Nov
2020
Completed
Welfare policy
Webinar: Indigenous people and investigation of dementia
Webbinariet är framflyttat till våren 2021. [...]
Completed
18
Nov
2020
Completed
Welfare policy
Practical Examples from Digitally Transformed Service Models in Existing Organisations
Our Nordic welfare models are being challenged in sparsely populated areas with an ageing population, a dwindling tax base and consequent di [...]
Completed
17
Nov
2020
Completed
Disability issues
Democracy and Disability - how to create broader political participation in the Nordic region?
Studies show that people with disabilities are not as involved as those without disabilities in the political systems in the Nordic countrie [...]
Completed
5
Nov
2020
Completed
Welfare policy
Combating loneliness and social isolation for the older adults
What do we know about loneliness and social isolation among the older adults in the Nordic countries? What are the consequences of involunta [...]
Completed
3
Nov
2020
Completed
Welfare policy
Roadmap for Service Innovation
Roadmap for service innovation is the most sophisticated tool in the Nordics, which supports digital transformation of earlier physical serv [...]
Completed
27
Oct
2020
Completed
Disability issues
Webinar: Smart cities are universally designed cities
High accessibility in our urban environments benefits everyone, not just the elderly or people with disabilities. But how do we build cities [...]
Completed
20
21
Oct
2020
Completed
Disability issues
Webinar on Revealing hidden potentials - Assessing cognition in individuals with congenital deafblindness
This webinar is based on the book: Revealing hidden potentials - Assessing cognition in individuals with congenital deafblindness, recently [...]
Completed
7
Oct
2020
Completed
Welfare policy
Webinar: Demens och intellektuell funktionsnedsättning - från misstanke till diagnos
De första symptomen på demens vid intellektuell funktionsnedsättning kommer ofta redan i 50-årsåldern men kan vara svåra att upptäcka [...]
Completed
5
Oct
2020
Completed
Disability issues
Digitalization in social services - Opportunities and barriers for people with disabilities
Social and public services are increasingly digitized, and important functions for participation in society are transferred to digital solut [...]
Completed
30
Sep
2020
Completed
Disability issues
Webinar: Tactile working memory scale
How can we identify working memory in persons with deafblindness? And how can we use this knowledge to help develop their potentials? This [...]
Completed
17
Sep
2020
Completed
Public health
Webinar: Demensomsorg för invandrare
Antalet människor i Norden med demenssjukdom förväntas öka och det gäller även personer som invandrade till Norden mellan 1960 och 199 [...]
Completed
8
10
Sep
2020
Completed
Public health
Nordic Alcohol and Drug Researchers' Assembly 2020 (NADRA)
Due to the current coronavirus pandemic we have decided to postpone the Nordic Alcohol and Drug Researchers’ Assembly (NADRA). NADRA will [...]
Completed
16
Jun
2020
Completed
Integration
Webinar: Bydelsmødrar och Stadsdelsmammor i Norden - Att ge andra det stöd man själv hade behövt när man kom till ett nytt land
Vid webbinariet samtalar Bydelsmödrar från Norge, Danmark och Sverige om likheter och skillnader länderna emellan, om utmaningen att nå [...]
Completed
2
Jun
2020
Completed
Public health
Webinar: The effects of the corona pandemic on alcohol consumption, smoking and drug treatment services
Welcome to the Nordic Welfare Centre’s webinar on the effects of the corona pandemic related to alcohol, tobacco and drug use on 2 June at [...]
Completed
14
May
2020
Completed
Disability issues
Webinar: Tactile language
When we add a linguistic value to bodily tactile expressions and recognise tactile languages as natural languages, we are able to communicat [...]
Completed
28
Apr
2020
Completed
Integration
Webinar on Migrant Women and the Nordic Labour Market - Challenges and Opportunities
Welcome to the Webinar on Migrant Women and the Nordic Labour Market - Challenges and Opportunities on April 28th at 13.30 EEST and 12.30 CE [...]
Completed
28
Apr
2020
Completed
Integration
CANCELLED Nordic Conference on Migrant Women and the Nordic Labour Market - Challenges and Opportunities
We have, due to the current situation with covid-19 decided to cancel this conference which was planned to take place in Helsinki on April 2 [...]
Completed
1
Apr
2020
Completed
Integration
Webinar: Unaccompanied children and youth in the Nordic countries
Hur mår de ensamkommande unga som nu är i färd med att etablera sig i länderna? Hur har det gått för de ensamkommande flickorna? Hur v [...]
Completed
23
Jan
2020
Completed
Public health
Tulisiko kannabiksen käytön rangaistavuudesta luopua? (ENG)
Seminaari pohjoismaisesta kannabispolitiikasta ja -lainsäädännöstä [...]
Completed
27
Nov
2019
Completed
Welfare policy
Webinar: New initiatives on indigenous peoples and dementia
Den första nordiska konferensen om urfolk och demens som gick av stapeln för precis ett år sedan resulterade i olika slutsatser och förs [...]
Completed
12
14
Nov
2019
Completed
Deafblindness
Hvis du kan se det, kan du understøtte det’- Development of tactile language
För att personer med medfödd dövblindhet ska utveckla ett taktilt språk, behövs att samtalspartnern uppfattar yttringarna, bekräftar o [...]
Completed
10
11
Oct
2019
Completed
Folkesundhed
Nordic expert meeting on FAS/FASD
The Nordic Welfare Centre warmly welcome practitioners, researchers and officials to a Nordic expert meeting on FAS/FASD, 10-11 October 2019 [...]
Completed
25
Sep
2019
Completed
Integration
Nordic Conference on Inclusion
Alla är eniga: civila samhället är en oumbärlig resurs när det gäller att skapa delaktighet och inkludera flyktingar och nyanlända. M [...]
Completed
23
Sep
2019
Completed
Velfærdspolitik
Careware Nordic Masterclass - Techs for tackling social isolation
The Nordic Welfare Center, together with the Municipality of Aarhus, is hosting a Nordic Master Class for Welfare Technology. The seminar wi [...]
Completed
18
19
Sep
2019
Completed
Handicap
Student mobility and disability in the Nordic countries – Torshavn
Welcome to a seminar on student mobility for everyone in the Nordic region [...]
Completed
10
Jun
2019
Completed
Handicap
Alandica Debatt - Student mobility and disability in the Nordic countries
Studenter med funktionsnedsättning vill studera utomlands i samma utsträckning som sina studiekamrater. Ändå är gruppen underrepresente [...]
Completed
5
Jun
2019
Completed
Velfærdspolitik
Nordic Day 2019: An age-friendly Nordic region for all
The fact that more people are living longer is a good thing – but an ageing population is a significant issue that impacts our social syst [...]
Completed
14
15
May
2019
Completed
Folkesundhed
Nordic workshop: Who decides the relevance and validity of knowledge?
What is the definition of useful, meaningful, and valuable knowledge? Who decides and influences this definition and what are the institutio [...]
Completed
15
Apr
2019
Completed
Disability issues
Higher education for all – Accessible Exchange
Welcome to this seminar about mobility in Higher Education in the Nordic Region, and how this mobility can be promoted. [...]
Completed
4
Apr
2019
Completed
Handicap
Deafblindness and integration
Welcome to attend a course on deafblindness and integration. [...]
Completed
3
Apr
2019
Completed
Integration
Full-day Nordic conference: Segregation in the Nordic Region – inclusion, young people, and policy
The aim of the conference is to provide inspiration and successful examples of development work around the Nordic Region in order to combat [...]
Completed
25
28
Mar
2019
Completed
Handicap
Communicative relationships
Hur kan vi upptäcka, uppfatta och förstå personer med medfödd dövblindhets egen stämma och autentiska kommunikation? Genom videoexemp [...]
Completed
29
Jan
2019
Completed
Integration
Webinar: Inkludering i arbetslivet, del 2 av 3 – Utrikes födda kvinnors etablering
Ta del av lärande exempel på insatser som kan skapa ett mer jämställt deltagande på den nordiska arbetsmarknaden. [...]
Completed
15
Jan
2019
Completed
Handicap
Student mobility and disability in the Nordic countries – Odense
Welcome to a seminar about how more students with disabilities can study abroad. [...]
Completed
5
Dec
2018
Completed
Handicap
Bodily-Tactile Languaging Congenital Deafblindness
The meeting between congenital deafblind’s authentic expressions and cultural-language practice [...]
Completed
4
Dec
2018
Completed
Welfare policy
Nordic Welfare Forum 2018
The Nordic countries are facing different kinds of welfare challenges. When the welfare systems are put under pressure, individuals are at r [...]
Completed
22
23
Nov
2018
Completed
Folkesundhed
Health Equity in the Nordic Region
Increased health disparities and a welfare state under pressure - how can we strive towards good and equal health in the Nordic region? [...]
Completed
19
Nov
2018
Completed
Disability issues
A region for all – cooperation on disability
Welcome to this afternoon seminar on Nordic and European cooperation on disability– how can we create a region for all? [...]
Completed
15
Nov
2018
Completed
Handicap
Student mobility and disability in the Nordic countries - Reykjavik
Welcome to a seminar about how more students with disabilities can study abroad. [...]
Completed
17
Oct
2018
Completed
Integration
New in the Nordic countries - work inclusion of migrants
One of the major challenges for the Nordic societies is to learn how to benefit from the skills of refugees and immigrants. [...]
Completed
15
16
Oct
2018
Completed
Velfærdspolitik
Creating age-friendly cities in the Nordic region
Life expectancy in the Nordic region is increasing and the proportion of elderly is growing rapidly. Even though this is a positive developm [...]
Completed
2
3
Oct
2018
Completed
Public health
Healthy Life for Children
We warmly welcome experts and professionals to the seminar Healthy Life for Children in Reykjavik 2-3 October. The seminar is for invited gu [...]
Completed
19
Sep
2018
Completed
Public health
Seminar on smoke-free places
The Nordic Welfare Centre warmly welcome officials and experts to a seminar on smoke-free places, 19th September 2018 in Iceland. The semina [...]
Completed
29
31
Aug
2018
Completed
Public health
Nordic Alcohol and Drug Researchers' Assembly 2018 (NADRA)
We warmly welcome Nordic researchers and others working with social and health approaches as well as alcohol and drug issues to the Nordic [...]
Completed
28
Aug
2018
Completed
Public health
Drinking habits among young people and the elderly
The Nordic Welfare Centre welcomes you to a seminar on drinking habits among youth and the elderly in the Nordic countries, 28 August 2018. [...]
Completed
27
May
2018
Completed
Integration
Nordic Day 2018: Early intervention contributes to successful integration
Around 200 000 child and adolescent asylum seekers came to the Nordic region between 2011 and 2016. Although most came with their families, [...]
Completed
22
24
May
2018
Completed
Disability issues
Meaningful activities for people with congenital deafblindness
Are you interested in exploring meaningful activities for people who are congenitally deafblind? Read more about the content and join us for [...]
Completed
25
Apr
2018
Completed
Public health
What’s the Nordic way concerning cannabis? Recent developments in control, policy and treatment
Use of cannabis in the Nordic countries is either stable or increasing with some regional variation between the countries. Meanwhile some co [...]
Completed
9
Apr
2018
Completed
Welfare policy
Careware Nordic Masterclass - Safety at home
The Nordic Welfare Centre and The City of Aarhus will host The Second Annual Careware Nordic Masterclass on the 9th of April in Aarhus. [...]
Completed
16
18
Oct
2017
Completed
Disability issues
Nordic Forum on Disability 2017 - Human Rights, Disability and Research
Welcome to this Nordic meeting place for researchers, policy makers and civil society. During three days we will discuss the implementation [...]
Completed
25
Jun
2017
Completed
Integration
Nordic Day 2017
At this year’s Nordic Day, the Nordic Welfare Centre will talk about working methods developed locally in order to enable newly arrived mi [...]
Completed
19
Apr
2017
Completed
Disability issues
The second Nordic expert seminar on employment and disability
Welcome to this seminar aimed to discuss examples of best practice and suggest areas and projects that should be prioritized in the The Nord [...]
Completed
10
Jan
2017
Completed
Disability issues
Use of video-analysis as a tool for the assessment of cognition in individuals with congenital deafblindness (CDB)
During the course an introduction is given on cognition, cognitive assessment in individuals with CDB and the use of video-analysis. [...]
Completed
10
Nov
2016
Completed
Disability issues
Do persons with a Sámi background and disability face other challenges than other persons with disability? Do the Sámi culture offer other opportunities for persons with disabilities? What conditions do the local, regional and national society have to offer in order allow Sámi persons with disability to live to their full potential?
Come and learn about the latest research in the field and what the United Nations are doing to handle issues in relation to indigenous peopl [...]
