Children and young people
The Nordic Council of Ministers’ strategy states that “the Nordic Region must be the best place in the world for children and young people”. This means that the Nordic Region must lead the way in efforts to promote the welfare of children and young people, to ensure that children and young people are aware of their rights and are able to exercise them, and to ensure the participation of children and young people in decisions that concern them. Children and young people are important right now, not just in the future.
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Social and health lessons learned from the pandemic
The Nordic Council of Ministers for Health and Social Affairs met online today to discuss what has been learned during the COVID-19 pandemic – both positive and negative. The point of the meeting was to come up with proposals for how the Nordic countries might become better at working t...
Is poorer language comprehension weakening the Nordic community?
The people of the Nordic Region have long believed that language and culture bind us together. Historically, our countries have enjoyed close cultural, linguistic and political links. But how well do people really understand the neighbouring Scandinavian languages today, and what does t...
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The competencies of the future
The idea behind the agenda for the competencies of the future is to better prepare people of all ages for the society that lies ahead. We want everybody in the Nordic Region to have the knowledge and skills to cope with a more complex future. Perhaps just as importantly, we also want th...
