Daily News from Scandinavia

Report: More public procurement education and training needed

NordenBladet — A report on public procurement education and training in Finland in 2021 was published as part of the Procurement Finland programme...

Senior Specialist in higher education and science policy to strengthen cooperation in higher education...

NordenBladet — Birgitta Vuorinen joined the Finnish Embassy in London in early January as a senior specialist in higher education and science policy....

273,700 unemployed jobseekers in January

NordenBladet — The number of unemployed jobseekers decreased by 59,100 from January the year before. The number of new vacancies reported in January...

Research project to examine gender impacts of collective agreements

NordenBladet — The ‘Gender impacts of collective agreements from the perspective of equal pay’ project, which is funded by the Ministry of Social...

Digital identity cards will improve management of personal data

NordenBladet — In future, everyone who wants one will be able to get a digital identity card for their smartphone alongside their traditional...

Foreign Minister Haavisto to meet UK Foreign Secretary

NordenBladet — Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto will visit London on 22 February and have a meeting with UK Foreign Secretary Elizabeth...

Climate Policy Roundtable meets to discuss assessment of measures in Medium-term Climate Change Policy...

NordenBladet — The Climate Policy Roundtable will hold its 13th meeting on Tuesday 22 February. The meeting will focus on the assessment of...

European affairs ministers to prepare for March European Council and discuss strengthening EU crisis...

NordenBladet — The EU General Affairs Council will meet in Brussels on 22 February. The topics of the meeting will include preparing for...

Discretionary government grants for CSOs’ Europe information awarded for 2022

NordenBladet — The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has granted EUR 445,000 in discretionary government grants to civil society organisations (CSOs) for their Europe...

Information exchange in the electricity retail market enters a new era – Datahub goes...

NordenBladet — Datahub, the centralised information exchange system for the electricity retail market, went live on 21 February 2022. Datahub centralises the data...