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- Erik Winther Paisley elected President of the Nordic Youth Council
- Oct 30, 2011
- Erik Winther Paisley of the Danish Young Conservatives was elected President of the Nordic Youth Council (NYC) at its annual Session on 30 October.
- Climate Change in the Classroom – a role playing game for Nordic school children
- Sep 20, 2011
- At the UN climate summit in South Africa in December 2011, the world's leaders will meet to find a solution for the challenges to our climate. The Nordic Council of Ministers is funding the project “Climate Change in the Classroom”, where school children will role play as delegates at the climate conference in Durban 2011.
- New Nordic study looks at the relationship between school meals and learning
- Sep 01, 2011
- A new Nordic report looks at the relationship between food in schools and pre-schools and the significance of school meals for children's health and ability to learn. While one can talk about the Nordic welfare model in general, there are radical difference in the countries regarding the provision of food in schools and pre-schools.
- PISA restricts innovative thinking in education
- Apr 14, 2011
- One of the conclusions of an extensive new study of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in the Nordic education system is that PISA restricts innovative thinking in education. More entrepreneurial forms of teaching would, for example, help cut the drop-out rates that plague education in some of the Nordic countries.
- Nordic Council of Ministers' call for DKK 500,000 for good language tools
- Mar 01, 2011
- The Nordic Council of Ministers announces a competition for proposals for the development of products to be used in its venture to improve the understanding of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish amongst children and young people in all the Nordic countries.
- The Nordic Climate Day is joined by climate festival in Finland
- Feb 24, 2011
- It has now been decided to organise the Nordic Climate Day again this year, 2011. In addition, the Finnish Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers, in co-operation with the Aalto University in Finland, will organised a major climate festival, which in turn will be linked to the Climate Day events.
- Secure jobs for young people in the future
- Oct 22, 2010
- The theme of the Nordic Youth Council’s annual Session from 29-31 October in Reykjavik will be young people and the job market.
- Jobs on youth agenda
- Oct 01, 2010
- Young people and the labour market will be the theme of the annual Session of the Nordic Youth Council 2010 in Reykjavik.
- Youth – Voice of the Future
- Sep 30, 2010
- Listening to young people´s voices, hopes and expectations is vital in today´s rapidly changing world. This is especially true in a Nordic context where the aim is to create the best living conditions in the world for youth. One of the major projects executed towards this direction in the Nordic countries was asking young people about their perspectives and visions, well being and lifestyles through a comparative research in 2009.
- Praise for Nordic efforts on mercury
- Jun 11, 2010
- During the UN mercury conference in Stockholm, considerable positive attention was paid to the work done on the issue by the Nordic countries. Delegates from all over the world have acknowledged the role of the Region and the Council of Ministers in attempts to restrict the use of mercury.
- School exchanges will improve Nordic interest
- Mar 29, 2010
- Minna Lindberg, President of the Nordic Youth Council (NYC), calls for greater contact between schools in the Region to promote interest for Nordic co-operation with young people.
- Nordic Climate Day again in 2010
- Feb 16, 2010
- The Nordic Council of Ministers has decided to repeat last year's Nordic Climate Day for school pupils in all five Nordic countries. It will once again be on 11 November. The climate has also been selected as a priority topic in the educational programme Nordplus, which runs in both the Nordic and Baltic countries.
- Nordic MPs on field work in Frederiksberg
- Jan 27, 2010
- How can we promote creativity and innovation in the Nordic educational systems? 15 Nordic MPs from the Nordic Culture's Culture and Educational Committee will see examples of this when they visit the teaching seminar Metropol in Frederiksberg.
- Climate film prize to Faroes
- Dec 08, 2009
- First prize in the Nordic climate film competition REClimate has gone to the Faroe Island. The Nordic Council of Ministers' made the announcement at COP15 in Copenhagen. The €2,000 prize went to Jákup Klein, Jóannes Martin Johannesen and Hermann Mørkøre for their film Burden.
- Winners of Nordic Climate Day competition named
- Dec 02, 2009
- Young people in the Nordic Region are afraid of what climate change may bring. Yet they also show great willingness to change their own habits and help cut CO2 emissions, a joint Nordic climate competition held in the run-up to the UN Climate Summit has revealed.
- Convention on the Rights of the Child turns 20
- Nov 20, 2009
- Children and young people are meant to be active and informed members of society and the Nordic Council of Ministers is publishing a new book on the subject to mark the twentieth anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
- EU honours Nordic Language Pilots
- Oct 26, 2009
- The manager of the Nordic Council of Ministers' new language project, the Nordic Language Pilots, has just won the EU's language prize 2009. Project Manager, Lis Madsen, is being honoured by the EU for her great work in promoting understanding of the Nordic languages.
- Ticking bomb of youth unemployment
- Sep 30, 2009
- "The sharp increase in youth unemployment has to be stopped," says the Nordic Council's Welfare Committee. Statistics show that youth unemployment is significantly higher than average unemployment in almost all of the Nordic countries.
- Watch youngsters who quit school
- Sep 29, 2009
- As many as 20 per cent of youngsters drop out of school in certain areas of the Nordic region, often because they can't cope. The Nordic countries should work together to put a stop to this negative trend, stressed the Social Democratic Group in the Nordic Council.
- Creativity important for Nordic school kids
- Sep 14, 2009
- Creative subjects should be encouraged in schools, says the Nordic Council’s Culture and Education Committee. The politicians are calling for the ministers of education to ensure that creative subjects are an option in schools or cultural schools in municipalities across the Nordic region.
