The MAINTAID-ED project expands Nordic collaborative teaching through systematic co-creation. Building on successful Finnish-Norwegian-Swedish partnership that engaged students and educators in developing four teaching modules, the project now integrates Denmark and Iceland through focus group interviews with social work and nursing faculty and students. The sustainability framework employs Diffusion of Innovations theory to systematically spread educational practices across Nordic universities.

The dissemination encompasses national and Nordic pedagogical seminars and webinars targeting higher education teachers and curriculum developers. Train-the-trainer workshops enable educators to adapt content for local contexts. Long-term maintenance structures include systematic content update mechanisms integrating emerging research and policy developments, sustained open-access hosting, and partnerships with Nordic university networks.

Femicide – the gender-based killing of women – represents the most extreme form of gender-based violence. Yet in the Nordic-Baltic region, public discourse and prevention efforts largely focus on partner-related killings. This narrow lens obscures femicides occurring outside heteronormative relations, where LGBTIQ+ women, trans women and sex workers face heightened risks. In Denmark, 30% of femicides take place outside intimate relations, but these cases remain poorly understood and under-analysed.

Without harmonised data or intersectional perspectives, systemic patterns of exclusion, hate crime motives and institutional gaps in protection remain invisible. Drawing on the Center for Violence Prevention’s experience with 25 years of femicide monitoring, this project addresses knowledge gaps by examining how sexual orientation, gender identity and social marginalisation shape vulnerability, access to justice and protection.

The Nordic HIV Preparedness Project addresses the growing need to protect HIV and LGBTIQ+ communities in an era marked by geopolitical instability, hybrid threats, and increasing discrimination. Although HIV is a manageable condition with proper treatment, access to medication and healthcare is vulnerable during crises. HIV medicines are not currently included in national preparedness plans across the Nordic region.

By bringing together HIV and LGBTIQ+ organizations from all Nordic countries, the project aims to develop shared strategies to ensure continuity of care, strengthen resilience, and safeguard human rights. Through digital meetings and a Nordic conference, partners will identify risks, exchange experiences, and aim to co-create a Nordic HIV Preparedness Framework. The project aims to enhance cross-border cooperation, increase individual and organizational preparedness, and provide concrete recommendations for integrating HIV-specific needs into national emergency planning.

This project aims to strengthen civil society’s ability to combat technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) by turning EU legislation—such as the Digital Services Act, the AI Act, and the Violence Against Women Directive—into concrete advocacy and support tools. The project addresses a critical knowledge gap among CSOs regarding how to interpret and leverage these laws effectively. Through Nordic collaboration, it will provide training, advocacy toolkits, and foster transnational partnerships. The desired outcome is improved implementation and enforcement of EU laws, enabling CSOs to better protect women and LGBTI individuals from online abuse and to hold digital platforms accountable.

The project centres on (gender) equality in times of crisis and explores how future Nordic resilience strategies can better support equality goals. In times of overlapping crises – security, climate, -and health – urgent responses often override long-term structural equality goals. This risks sidelining gender commitments, despite evidence that crises are not gender-neutral: norms and inequalities shape both exposure and resilience. The project will conduct a literature review, stakeholder interviews, collect Nordic best practices, and foster network-building activities.

Desired outputs include a report with findings and recommendations and an online Nordic conference to foster a future network on gendered resilience in the Nordics.

This project is a Nordic initiative led by ThaiWISE–Hela Människan i Malmö to promote gender equality, fair working conditions, and the integration of Thai women in the massage industry. Building on Sweden’s successful pilot model Nuad Thai Nordic (NTN), it aims to adapt and expand this approach in Norway and Finland through collaborative networks.

The project’s capacity-building activities include adapting and sharing training materials, supporting partner-led training, and promoting the NTN model to grow membership in Norway and Finland. Cross-border learning and study visits will strengthen collaboration and knowledge exchange. Ongoing policy engagement with Thai Embassies, Nordic institutions, and local stakeholders will support regional cooperation and advance gender equality.

The project strengthens regional collaboration on gender equality and labor rights by expanding the NTN model and fostering cooperation. It aims to empower Thai women, reduce exploitation, and develop tools and policies to improve working conditions and gender equality.

The project challenges dominant gender narratives in Sámi society by highlighting diverse voices, perspectives and experiences. Using gulahallat—a Sámi tradition of dialogue—it creates arenas where men, women and LGBTQIA+ persons can reflect on gender roles, ideals and diversity on Sámi terms. The work builds on Gender Talks in Sápmi and deepens discussions on Sámi masculinities, women in reindeer herding and intergenerational stories.

Through inclusive and cross-border dialogue spaces, documentation, and a handbook on gulahallat, the project will contribute to strengthen Sámi society’s ability to address equality and inclusion. Desired outcomes are broadened public narratives on gender, stronger tools for Sámi communities, and more inclusive, socially sustainable societies across Sápmi.

An international backlash is taking place against LGBTI rights, with increased stigmatization and a scaling back of civil liberties in the US and Europe. The Nordic region, has seen a rise in hate and intolerance as reported by national queer organisations. Similar attacks on the rights of queer people are taking place online. The project intends to track whether online platforms are pushing hate-driven indoctrination to users.

A 2024 study by Dublin City University found that brand new YouTube and TikTok accounts, registered as belonging to teenage boys, were exposed to anti-feminist content within 23 minutes. Within hours, over 75% of their feeds were filled with hate-driven narratives. Thus, social media algorithms risk radicalizing young men by feeding them hateful content at an alarming rate.

Project partners aim to replicate this experiment — this time focusing on anti-LGBTI content. Using new social media accounts with controlled search patterns, we will track whether or not platforms are pushing hate-driven indoctrination to users – and if they are, how fast and how aggressively homophobic and/or transphobic content is being recommended.