Symposium: Nordic Health and Welfare Technology

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. Registration will open late in late August.

The symposium includes a poster session, with the possibility of travel grants for early-career researchers.

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.
Full programme and registration details to follow.

Funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Photo: IT University of Copenhagen, press photo