Nordic HWT for Emerging Futures: Building Resilient Digital Welfare Systems
This two-day event brings together Nordic researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to examine how digital health and welfare technologies can be developed and implemented in ways that are sustainable, evidence-based, and resilient to structural pressures. It is a bottom-up initiative designed to consolidate an emerging Nordic research community and forge new collaborations across disciplines, sectors, and national borders.
Programme themes
Theme 1: Nordic Collaboration and Regional Resilience in Digital Welfare
Theme 2: Digital Welfare Competence, Data, and Evidence-Based Practice
Programme at a glance:
Monday, 30 November
– Welcome & framing: Digital transformation and the Nordic welfare challenge
– Session I: Nordic collaboration and regional resilience in digital welfare
– Workshops round I: Mapping the landscape (parallel sessions)
– Reception & Poster session
Tuesday, 1 December
– Session II: Digital welfare competence, data, and evidence-based practice
– Session III: Trust & data protection in HWT
– Workshops round II: Co-developing the Nordic roadmap (parallel sessions)
– Panel: Nordic digital welfare – from evidence to action
– Concluding reflections & roadmap presentation
Registration on a first-come, first-served basis.
The symposium includes a poster session, with the possibility of travel grants for early-career researchers.
Call for posters: More information about the call and poster submissions. Poster submissions should be done by 30 September 2026.
The symposium is organised by the IT University of Copenhagen and the Nordic Health and Welfare Technology Research Network (HWT) in partnership with the Nordic Welfare Centre, the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research, and the Swedish Centre for Rural Health.
Funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.
Photo: IT University of Copenhagen, press photo
