NWA participated in the launch event for the new report for the wellbeing economy in Brussels March 4, 2025. In an event  organised by the Green European Foundation and the Institute for European Environmental Policy, the wider community of policy stakeholders presented recent data, analysis, and projections about environmental policies linked to wellbeing.

The event especially launched a political brief as a result of a one-year-long exchange within a knowledge community of more than 60 experts that maps the main challenges and provide recommendations to inspire European institutions in the delivery of their ambition to work towards the well-being of their people.

The report can be found  here – and is a way for the knowledge community project for a wellbeing economy in the EU aims to address this challenge by developing ideas and political proposals to put the EU’s ambition to “work towards an integrated framework for wellbeing” into practice.

The Invest4Health project focuses on transforming public health financing for people’s better health and well-being. Its mission is to enhance health promotion and disease prevention by incentivising investments and asset maximisation in these critical areas.

NWA co-founder Lars Münter is a member of the Citizens and Patients Advisory Group (CPAG) and was invited to participate in the Invest4Health project meeting in Brussels February 11-12, 2025 to give feedback on the project development and long term impact.

Read more about the project here.

We’re diving into models towards strategies for trust in a webinar February 27, 2025 – across partnerships, borders, disciplines, and sectors.

Register via trustintransformation2.eventbrite.com

A great team of participants joined our event in Brussels January 27th, 2025 to talk about pathways for progress on trust as a tool for transformation in health and resilience in society.

Summary and presentations
Read a summary of the event here with references to further reading also and find pdf of presentations from Diana Arsovic, Lars Münter, and Nina Sønderberg. The meeting was held in Brussels at The Library Ambiorix – on a surprisingly sunny day in the Brussels winter. Participants from 10 different organisations debated the joint challenge – how to ensure better basis for promotion and emergence of trust by and in the climate of multistakeholder collaboration frameworks, that are an essential part of modern ecosystems of policy and service innovation. See a few pictures below.

In 2024 we are also working towards integration of a Nordic Wellbeing approach into the larger European research framework called Horizon Europe. The programme supports thousands of projects on all kinds of important issues for the future of Europe and Europeans, but  obviously this also means that wellbeing in practice is very important.

The NWA team has a lot of previous experience from European research and collaborative projects – from FP5 to Horizon 2020 and now also Horizon Europe, and are also drawing upon these experiences to help form new consortia and ideas.

This covers projects on promotion of a range of diverse topics like healthy diet, food safety, food education, cancer, child obesity, and remote working arrangements.

Read more via

SafeConsume

Dioptra Project

Bio-Streams

WinWin4Worklife

Representing the Nordic Health 2030 Movement and the Danish Committee for Health Education, Lars Münter participated in the High-Level WHO/Europe Conference for the Tallinn Charter 15th Anniversary Health Systems Conference: Trust and transformation – resilient and sustainable health systems for the future.

As part of the debate panel for Public Health Leadership, Lars Münter highlighted the powerful role that health leaders have as changemakers for healthy transformation beyond the health care system.

Read more about the conference.