Across the Nordic region, tourism strategies are filled with confident language about “innovation,” “transformation,” and “future‑proofing.” Yet when one examines the concrete outputs...
Finland is entering a period where demographic pressures and labour shortages are converging into a structural challenge. Economists, research institutions, and business organisations have...
A forumNordic investigation into the innovations, fractures and emerging governance experiments shaping the future of water in the North In March 2026, Swedish hydrologist Kenneth M Persson issued...
Top Defence & Security Innovations Shaping Tomorrow Finland’s defence and aerospace ecosystem, an unusually dense constellation of deep‑tech SMEs, advanced manufacturers, and rapidly scaling...
There’s a particular Davos light, the kind that falls coldly on glass and snow, making even the most utopian talk feel provisional. In that light, Yuval Noah Harari said what many had been...
The Nordics believe in free trade and open markets - we oppose monopolies and quasi monopolies. Thus we support Europe’s challenge to US browser and social‑media dominance centers on...
On the ferry from Ísafjörður, the sea has a way of flattening thought. The bow points toward the old, empty north, Hornstrandir, and the water, always shifting, takes on the grey of layered...
SUBMERSE’s audacious plan to turn the world’s seabed cables into a shared instrument, while governments race to keep their secrets hidden In the deep oceans, where visibility fades into...
As 2026 begins, the Nordic life science landscape is undergoing one of its most significant regulatory shake‑ups in a decade. Denmark, Sweden, and Finland — usually aligned in health ...
Lessons from Five Global Case Studies Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are increasingly recognized as critical for addressing climate change, biodiversity loss, and socio-economic resilience. However,...
By Nicholas Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, forumNordic In an increasingly interconnected world, the stability of the United States—economically, politically, and morally—has long served as a...
Innovation thrives when scientific research thrives. Scientific research thrives when there is a big pool of well-educated people nurtured in schools and universities thrive where people think,...
Researchers in Norway have proposed that limits should be imposed on the use of energy in cloud data centers. They argue that Norwegian politicians should not be sponsoring the race for influence by...