Children & young people
27 Jan 2025
Upcoming report spotlights children’s right to be heard
The four year-long projects on children’s and young people’s right to be heard in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is ramping up toward [...]
Children & young people
22 Nov 2024
Norway strengthens child rights in groundbreaking policy update
Norway has revised its policy framework to ensure that children's best interests are thoroughly evaluated before implementing new reforms. T [...]
Children & young people
4 Nov 2024
Insights from workshop will shape new report on student councils
Lack of safe spaces, low representation, and inaccessibility in schools are major barriers preventing students with disabilities from democr [...]
Disability issues
21 Oct 2024
“We need less barriers in leisure activities, education and politics“
Decision-makers should listen to young persons with disabilities – and there are several ways to get them to listen. The Nordic Youth Disa [...]
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
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 students councils during the pandemic
What can we learn from students councils and youth participation during the pandemic? Researchers from the University of Iceland have starte [...]
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 [...]
Children & young people
25 Sep 2023
“The voice of youth can make a change”
In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic and the current war in Ukraine, it's clear that decisions impacting children and youth were made w [...]
Children & young people
17 Aug 2023
Nytt nätverk om betydelsen av barnets första 1000 dagar i livet
De första åren av ett barns liv är avgörande för att lägga en god grund för mental och fysisk hälsa senare i livet. Ett nytt nordisk [...]
Children & young people
8 Jun 2023
Young people were deprived of essential parts of their youth
“Young people have missed many important transition rites such as graduations, dances, or other celebrations such as festivals and concert [...]
Children & young people
22 May 2023
New report shows restricted childhood and interrupted youth due to covid
Higher levels of anxiety and boredom and decreased well-being among children and young people during the pandemic. But also, positive result [...]
Deafblindness
8 May 2023
Parents crucial when children with deafblindness develop language
"Every time I went to a course aimed at professionals working with deafblindness I thought 'But this is what parents need to learn!'", says [...]
Children & young people
3 Apr 2023
“If you don’t do it well before a crisis, then you don’t stand a chance”
"By demonstrating examples, we can inspire change." That was the conclusion from one of the participants when the report Child and youth par [...]
Children & young people
21 Mar 2023
Checklist to ensure child and youth participation during crisis
Every young person is entitled to be heard and involved in matters that concern them. But how can decision makers safeguard meaningful child [...]
Children & young people
16 Mar 2023
Här är ungdomarna som blev mer ensamma när pandemin tog slut
Vissa barn och unga fick äntligen de anpassningar de behöver – tack vare covid-19-pandemin. Men de fördelar som uppstod i och med den p [...]
Children & young people
9 Mar 2023
New report about children’s participation and influence during Covid-19
Institutions working for and with children and youth in the Nordic region were not prepared to protect children’s rights when the Covid-19 [...]
Children & young people
16 Jun 2022
Young people prepare decision-makers to involve them in crises
During the covid-19 pandemic, Nordic authorities focused on establishing effective ways to stop the spread of the infection. Consequently, s [...]
26 Apr 2022
Nordic Day 2022: Children and youth in the shadow of the pandemic
The Nordic countries have strong traditions of promoting the well-being of children by emphasizing the right to inclusion and participation [...]
Public health
14 Apr 2021
New report: School achievement and health development in the Nordic countries
Education plays a particularly important role in explaining health outcomes in the Nordic countries. Our new report aims to highlight knowle [...]
Disability issues
4 Feb 2021
New report: Unequal opportunities to participate for children and young people with disabilities
Nordic studies reveal that children and young people with disabilities do not have the same opportunities as their peers. They describe an e [...]
Integration
19 Feb 2020
Evaluating promising methods when there is a lack of evidence
There is a broad consensus that in the case of children and young people, early intervention pays off primarily as benefits to the individua [...]
Disability issues
24 Jan 2020
Hon kämpar för större inflytande för grönländska unga med funktionsnedsättning
- På Grönland är unga med funktionsnedsättning trötta på att människor tycker synd om dem. De vill vara starka och självständiga. [...]
Disability issues
22 Jan 2020
Better decisions when young people with disabilities are involved
Organisations for young people with disabilities must be invited to forums where decisions are being made, they must be invited at an early [...]
Disability issues
11 Jun 2019
Ingen ska lämnas efter – temat för nordiska FN-möten
I veckan pågår ett antal viktiga möten i FN:s högkvarter i New York. Syftet är att främja rättigheter för personer med funktionsneds [...]
Disability issues
23 May 2019
”Hos oss är barn först och främst barn”
För trettio år sedan fungerade Múlaborg Leikskóli i Reykjavik som många andra förskolor på den tiden. Barn med funktionsnedsättning [...]
Public health
7 May 2019
“Traditional education promotes equality”
In the Nordic countries, health is linked to educational attainment to a higher extent than to income. Studies have now shown that the progr [...]
Disability issues
22 Mar 2019
FN-konvention om rättigheter blev till barnbok på Färöarna
En illustrerad barnbok om en teddybjörn som heter Lukka. Det blev den kreativa lösningen när Tóra við Keldu och Ása Olsen på Färöar [...]
Public health
4 Mar 2019
Schools can boost positive health among students
Positive health can be boosted among school students. In many parts of the Nordic region schools are implementing health promotion measures [...]
Public health
11 Oct 2018
“Weight stigmatization is a socially accepted form of discrimination”
The proportion of children who are overweight or obese has risen and is now approaching 20 percent among 5-year olds in many European countr [...]
Public health
22 Aug 2018
Alternativa stödverksamheter vill få unga att må bättre
Den självupplevda psykiska ohälsan ökar i Norden, men endast ett fåtal av ungdomarna mår tillräckligt dåligt för att kvala in för a [...]
Integration
4 Jun 2018
Nordic Day 2018: Exempel på lyckad inkludering
De nordiska länderna tog tillsammans emot cirka 200 000 asylsökande barn och unga under åren 2011 till 2016. De flesta kom med sin familj [...]
Welfare policy
10 Apr 2015
Skolan en viktig framgångsfaktor för fosterbarn
I rapporten "Barn kan inte vänta" har Nordens välfärdscenter sammanställt resultat från forskning kring barn i fosterhem med inriktning [...]
