The project will result in a knowledge base that deepens, broadens and challenges current understandings of competitiveness. This will be achieved through an analysis based on studies from Nordic as well as European and international contexts, bringing gender and equality perspectives into issues of relevance.
In 2026, NIKK will launch an initiative focusing on vulnerable living conditions among the LGBTI community in the Nordic region. The initiative builds on NIKK’s previous initiatives with the aim of utilising, highlighting and further developing the results of our previous projects. The main focus of the project will be to highlight these themes at some of the events held in the region during the year.
Since 2021, the Nordic LGBTI Fund has been financing projects to strengthen the equal rights of LGBTI people in the Nordic region. Actors from the autonomous regions are underrepresented in approved projects, which risks limiting their participation in Nordic cooperation. In order to strengthen the knowledge base and counteract this underrepresentation, NIKK will, on behalf of the Nordic Council of Ministers, conduct a targeted call for proposals for the Nordic LGBTI Fund in 2026 to encourage more projects, where the main applicant comes from a self-governing area in the Nordic region. In addition, NIKK will produce a publication summarising key studies in the field and mapping key actors, policies, legislation and ongoing initiatives in the autonomous regions.
Living Conditions of LGBTI People in Rural Areas of the Nordic Region
NIKK has been tasked with conducting a review of how the Nordic countries work with honour-related violence and oppression. The study will provide an overview of the work in the Nordic region by highlighting what problems/challenges are identified and how the work to meet them is organised by describing the main actors, tasks and initiatives.
In order to stimulate a Nordic discussion on welfare resilience, the Nordic Council of Ministers has initiated this project, which is carried out by NIKK. The project has a cross-cutting approach: the knowledge produced is relevant to several sectors within Nordic co-operation and therefore contributes to strengthened collaboration between both policy areas and actors active within them, as well as between researchers and other experts.