The Nordic Gender Equality Fund finances collaborations that promote gender equality.
Through the Fund, the Nordic Council of Ministers issues an annual call for proposals for funding projects in which at least three organisations, from at least three Nordic countries, collaborate.
The aims of the projects can be to contribute new knowledge, a sharing of experiences or Nordic networks.
NIKK administers the Fund on behalf of the Nordic Council of Ministers, including calls for proposals, assessment of proposals, and monitoring of results.
2021 Following standardized methods for questionnaire development, this project will develop and validate a questionnaire to assess sexual harassment in a standardized manner, across the Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The Danish questionnaire Inventory of Workplace Sexual Harassment (IWS) will be translated into Norwegian and Swedish. Using these Norwegian and Swedish versions of the »
2021 This project aims to carry out a critical analysis of how Nordic ideals regarding management and organisation impact the work environment of employees within service and retail. The project has a particular focus on ideals concerning customer orientation, often perceived as “natural” and self-evident to Nordic service organisational practice. We analyse the consequences of prioritising »
2021 The project maps and evaluates the pension systems in the Nordic countries, to see how they impact equality. The results will be collated in a report, together with suggestions for improvement. The report will be presented at a Nordic summit meeting on equal pensions and disseminated to relevant Nordic target groups in several ways. Parallel »
2021 Through the Safe schools project, the organisations Likestillingssenteret KUN (NO), Ekvalita (FI), and Elevernas Riksförbund (SE) will develop a joint Nordic method based on norm criticism, in order to create an inclusive and equal school with a focus on increased student participation. This will be achieved through five distinctive work packages which involve students’ councils, »
