Nordic Innovation

Congratulations to the Nordic Health App Award 2024 winner! We are super excited to announce Swedish Visiba for winning the Nordic Health App Award 2024! From the jury motivation: Visiba is a patient-centric solution, utilizes AI to support healthcare professionals and is easily integrated into existing care systems. By reducing unnecessary ambulance dispatches and emergency visits, Visiba helps save resources and prioritizes the most urgent cases. This essential feature sets it apart from many other applications. Visiba was founded I 2014 and their aim was to make healthcare more accessible by enabling patients to easily and securely communicate with healthcare professionals online. Today Visiba's virtual care platform is used by over 2,500 healthcare services and 34,000 healthcare professionals. Visiba UK, Visiba Sverige, Visiba Norge, Katherine Leung Thordur Reynisson, Rasmus Malmborg, Freyr Hólm Ketilsson, Unni Kvisvik, Nima Jokilaakso, PhD, Marie Rørdam Fenger,Sabina Westerholm Anders Tunold-Hanssen #NordicHealthAppAward The Nordic Council of Ministers and The Nordic Council #nordicsolutions #nordicinteroperability, #NordDEC, #ORCHA

Thanks a lot for a great visit! 🙏 Together with our sister organisations NordForsk and Nordic Energy Research we had the pleasure of welcoming the Swedish ambassador to #Nordic Center last week. The three institutions presented their work towards vision 2030 and Svein Berg gave examples of concrete innovation projects such as the NEA Nordic network for electric aviation - a project aiming to speed up the implementation of electric aviation in the Nordic countries. Read more about that project here: https://lnkd.in/dSdYcW4Q Thanks a lot for a great visit. You are always welcome at Nordic Center and we look forward for future collaboration. Mikael Eriksson Sveriges ambassad i Oslo Svein Berg Arne Flåøyen Guttorm Aanes Maria Eklöf Kevin Johnsen Lena Henriksson Mari B. Emil Gejrot Bodil Aurstad Håkan Lind

Will you be in Reykjavik next week? Then, remember to register for the #Nordic Health App Award 2024! 👇 The award is taking place for the second time. Last year’s winner was the Swedish app Paindrainer AB - a self-management device designed for individuals suffering from chronic pain. Join us when we announce the winner of the #Nordic Health App Award 2024, and help us to celebrate and recognize all the innovative digital health solutions developed in the Nordic countries. Read more and register: https://lnkd.in/giikJpZn The award is taking place in conjunction with the Arctic Circle and we invite everyone interested in digital health innovation and Nordic cooperation to come and join us for a festive afternoon. Rasmus Malmborg Thordur Reynisson Anders Tunold-Hanssen Heilsutækniklasinn - Iceland Health Tech Cluster #nordicsolutions The Nordic Council of Ministers and The Nordic Council The Nordic Interoperability Project

20 hydrogen trucks to be deployed in Iceland in 2025 and 100 to be deployed in Norway! That was announced earlier this year as a result of Nordic Innovation's Next Wave project! Join us for our second event at Arctic Circle and explore the pivotal role of hydrogen in shaping the future of transportation! This will be an insightful event offering a sneak peek into how this innovative approach to goods transport will revolutionize the environmental impact of traditional supply chains. Meet the speakers: Jón Björn Skúlason, Icelandic New Energy Richard Dieter Frenz, MAN Truck & Bus SE Roy Zakrzewski, MAN Truck & Bus SE Per Øyvind Voie, VIREON Guðmundur Ingi Þorsteinsson, Blær Lin April Løstegård, Norwegian Hydrogen Forum Read more: https://lnkd.in/dtZ9fb_a We look forward to seeing you in Reykjavik next week! Nina Egeli Hege Louise Guttormsen The Nordic Council of Ministers and The Nordic Council Brintbranchen Hydrogen Sweden Evig Grønn AS GreenH AS

The #Nordics - a Silicon Valley for Minerals? Last week was a good week for the #Nordic mining industry! The first #Nordic Forum on Raw Materials took place in Stockholm and gathered experts from the mineral and raw material industries to discuss, share knowledge and most importantly – to network! The #Nordic region holds a huge potential for many of the critical raw materials identified by #EU! The aim of the #Nordic Forum on Raw Materials is to strengthen cooperation across the mining and minerals sector to positioning the region as a role model in global, sustainable mineral production in line with #vision2030 – the Nordics as the most sustainable region in the world. As Svein Berg said in his opening remarks: “Without the mining industry there will be no green transition.” The Forum is supported by Nordic Innovation and organized by Svemin, FinnMin - Kaivosteollisuus ry and Norsk Bergindustri. While the Forum took place, the Swedish Presidency hosted a meeting between the #Nordic business ministers to discuss how to best include metals and minerals in #Nordic co-operation. The meeting stressed that access to critical metals and minerals is key to the Nordic and EU 2030 climate and digital goals. Read more about that here: https://lnkd.in/dYbjyK6K Thanks to all our partners, speakers, the Nordic business ministers and everyone contributing to putting critical raw materials on the agenda! Håkan Lind Peter Munch-Madsen The Nordic Council of Ministers and The Nordic Council Maria Sunér Karen Ellemann Ebba Busch Wille Rydman #rawforum Emma Härdmark Dan Koivulaakso Nordic Forum on Raw Materials

Are you going to Arctic Circle this year? Join is for an interesting discussion about the investment opportunities that lies within the Arctic Ocean Economy! The Ocean Economy represents a vibrant and promising investment sector, with the potential to drive sustainable growth, innovation and combat climate change. In this session we will explore innovative financing mechanisms and investment opportunities supporting a more sustainable ocean economy. Speakers: 👉 Virginia E. Vegas, FRONTTIER AS 👉 Thordur Reynisson, Nordic Innovation 👉 Even Ovnerud, Oxidane Venture 👉 Verineia Codrean, McKinsey & Company 👉 Fertram Sigurjonsson, Kerecis 👉 Linn Indrestrand, Port of Hirtshals - Hirtshals Havn Read more: https://lnkd.in/dgZ34BrH Emil Gejrot Håkan Lind The Nordic Council of Ministers and The Nordic Council #nordiccooperation

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! 👏 We are happy to share that registration for this year's #Nordic Circular Summit is now open - Join us for this year's summit focusing on the enterprise of circular economy! Can entrepreneurs and startups close the Nordic circular economy gaps? We are looking into the enlightened entrepreneurship for evolving the new circular market in the Nordics and beyond. Read more and register: https://lnkd.in/djvCeFYd We look forward to seing you in Helsinki! Marthe Haugland Peter Munch-Madsen Hanna Törmänen Hege Louise Guttormsen Natural State Nordic Circular Hotspot Martin Hagen Einar Kleppe Holthe Cathrine Barth #nordicsolutions #nordiccooperation Thea Martinsen

Knowledge gab is a barrier to co-location at sea, and #Nordic cooperation can play a key role in changing that! – that was one of the key messages in the discussions during the ‘Nordic conference on co-location in marine industries’ organized by Nordic Innovation, Jordbruksverket and Landsbygdsnätverket and funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers. Among the conclusions were also: 👉 Co-location is not easy - it is still a new concept that needs to be developed 👉 We need to move from theory to practical knowledge and learning by doing 👉 Trust is key to building co-location projects, but it takes time and efforts to build trust in new types of partnerships 👉 A neutral facilitator is important in developing collaborations 👉 It is important to be able to take risks – we need a system for risk management 👉 There is already a lot of knowledge out there, but it needs to be gathered, shared and put together. This type of conference is an important tool for that Nordic cooperation as a facilitator and enabler for co-location at sea is also underlined in the latest Nordic Innovation report “Barriers to co-location at sea” which was launched during the conference. The report highlights the need for a coordinated approach and recommends the Nordic cooperation to take the leadership in developing co-location projects at sea. Read more about that here: https://lnkd.in/d944zhru Thanks a lot to our partners for establishing a really important and valuable conference - it was great to see such engagement and discussions from the participants. Thordur Reynisson Emil Gejrot Håkan Lind The Nordic Council of Ministers and The Nordic Council Karen Ellemann Asmundur Gudjonsson Magnar Pedersen Jógvan Hugo Gardar Katrin Vilhelm Poulsen #nordiccooperation

“What we can’t grow we have to mine, and what we mine, we do responsibly.” In collaboration with The Geological Survey of Norway, SGU, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) / Geologian tutkimuskeskus (GTK) and GEUS we presented and discussed the latest news within traceability of critical raw materials in Helsinki on Friday. A project funded under Nordic Innovation’s Sustainable Minerals program has investigated how rare earth elements can be traced along the value chain with the purpose to increase circularity in mining. The partners have also developed a new database classifying secondary resources and their critical raw material potential in the Nordic countries. The purpose of the database is to create a knowledge base for better decision making to increase the reuse of mining waste.   As Erika Ingvald from SGU said: “We can’t live without waste as a resource” Read more about the results here: https://lnkd.in/d4eXJw6f The event was followed by an excursion to a secondary raw materials site. Thanks a lot to our project partners for doing a really great job! As Peter Munch-Madsen said in his opening remarks: “you are like a small family, but you all have the same vision of creating more circular mining.” Håkan Lind Kati Kiviniemi Tommi Kauppila Lauri Solismaa Anja Fonseca Charlotte Nilsson Kylesten Mari Prestvik Birgit Thorsen Kaarina Ringstad #nordicsolutions #nordiccollaboration

Are you visiting the ITS World Congress 2024? Then you should join us at the Nordic+ Pavilion! Besides from being part at the Pavilion, our advisors Nina Egeli and Hege Louise Guttormsen will also participate in four sessions during the conference week. They will among other discuss the role of data sharing and collaboration to create more resilient, smart, seamless and connected mobility and transport solutions. Data sharing and collaboration are important elements in green mobility and can play a key role in making the Nordics the most integrated and sustainable region in the world by 2030. We look forward to discuss this and much more with international mobility actors! Read more about our acticities at the ITS World Congress 2024: https://lnkd.in/djYDdkkg See you there! #nordicmobility #nordicsolutions ITS Nordic