The project aims to produce and make available statistics on the distribution between men and women in leading positions in Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish listed companies, and to map and evaluate laws and other measures taken to increase the representation of women in management groups and boards in these countries.

The method is a comparative survey of representation on the boards and management teams of Swedish, Norwegian and Danish listed companies. The project will also compare legislation and other measures to increase gender equality in the countries concerned, and, via surveys, examine employees’ and managers’ perceptions of career opportunities from a gender equality perspective. This knowledge, together with previous research, will be used to identify possible shortcomings and success factors in the measures taken by the different countries and to develop recommendations.

The project also aims to produce new and increased knowledge that can form the basis for developing policies and other initiatives in the Nordic region.

Ukrainian women have fled to the Nordic countries in large numbers since the war broke out in February 2022. This is a unique group as many of them come without a partner and with children and benefit from some policies. We want to explore in a comparative study in three Nordic countries; Iceland, Norway and Sweden, how they have integrated in the labour market. 

By examining this through focus group interviews with Ukrainian women, and interviews with experts working in labour and immigration, the consortium intends to identify enablers and obstacles to labour market integration for this particular group. Furthermore, the project will suggest measures to support their labour market integration to create equal opportunities in the labour market. The project will additionally gather examples of good practice in labour market integration. The results will be used to inform policy to help improve the integration of Ukrainian women and wider migrant/refugee groups.   

TUNDRA is an innovative initiative aimed at empowering women-led growth-stage climate-tech companies through tailored access to experts, funding, and partnerships, particularly those in the Arctic region.

Women-led Climate tech ventures in the Arctic region face unique scalability challenges as a result of limited access to role models, networks and funding. While early-stage ventures receive support through different initiatives, there is a gap in assistance for later-stage companies.

Through events that provide opportunities for networking and access to expertise, the program will offer a support system for women-led climate tech ventures in the Arctic region.

The project aims to support participating companies to grow their business by expanding their market reach, and finding funding opportunities. Additionally, the program aims to raise awareness about the challenges faced by women founders and strengthen the role of women leaders in the ecosystem. The tangible outcome of the project will be a comprehensive report providing data about gender equality in entrepreneurship in the Arctic region, with a specific focus on climate tech.

The conference examines linkages between gender equality and the ongoing climate crisis in the Nordic business context. The main objectives are to strengthen collaboration, accelerate change, and encourage businesses to set ambitious targets to deliver on the SDGs (5, 8, 10, 13).

The conference is organized in two parts: a high-level plenary on the first day, followed by a series of workshop style deep-dive sessions and roundtables covering the topical themes of a gender-just transition. We expect at least 150 Nordic company representatives to participate. The conference provides a platform for experienced practitioners to exchange knowledge and practical approaches regarding the effective implementation of actions.

A summary report will be compiled to communicate the overall messaging, identified challenges, key take-away actions and next steps. The report will be disseminated in the Nordic networks’ events, learning programs and peer learning groups. 

The project aims to produce equality data for trans people and people with trans experience, focusing on the situation in the labour market and personal finances. A study will be carried out in two stages: a large quantitative survey with a follow-up qualitative study to deepen the results. The study will also highlight variations within the group, which is often wrongly analysed as a more uniform group than it is.

By making visible the consequences of discrimination for transgender people at the societal level, actors who design and implement policies regarding the labour market, social measures and discrimination can have better opportunities to design targeted measures for transgender people.

The results of the study, including statistics and analyses, are presented in a report. It will be made available online to the public, researchers, authorities and other relevant stakeholders. The results are also disseminated at a final conference in 2024, which also serves as a basis for continued networking in the area between the collaborating NGOs.

Following standardized methods for questionnaire development, this project developed and validated 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) was translated into Norwegian and Swedish. Using these Norwegian and Swedish versions of the questionnaire, survey data from employees in Norway and Sweden were collected. In combination with Danish data, this pooled dataset containing survey data from the three included countries was used to evaluate the questionnaire psychometrically and to identify a core of items that measure sexual harassment similarly across the included countries.

This Nordic questionnaire (IWS-Nordic) provides an essential tool for comparative research on sexual harassment between the countries and for workplaces to initiate and monitor preventive action.

This project aimed 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 had a particular focus on ideals concerning customer orientation, often perceived as “natural” and self-evident to Nordic service organisational practice. The project analysed the consequences of prioritising the customer, for example how this leads to problematic power relationships between customer and employee.

The project has developed knowledge about if a customer-focused organisation can generate an unequal work environment, by upholding power and gender structures. And if these structures in turn provide an arena for violence and sexual harassment of service and retail employees.