Trust in Transformation – webinar February 27, 2025
We’re diving into models towards strategies for trust in a webinar February 27, 2025 – across partnerships, borders, disciplines, and sectors.
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Trust in Brussels – Summary Report
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.
Trust in Transformation?
Trust is essential for future health and wellbeing. So to explore this basic fact. NWA has initiated a process of collaboration with European partners to define methods and platforms to take practical action to better define how. How do we design for trust? How do we measure and adapt our strategy for trust?
January 27, 2025 we will be exploring this at collaborative event in Brussels – we look forward to share more about the outcome; but read more in the invite here;
Global knowledge sharing for wellbeing
The quest for wellbeing is as old as humanity. Creating a structured approach requires a civilisation capable of longterm thinking and strategy about the many implications for education, urban design, innovation, institutions, community involvement, allocation of ressources and much more.
NWA has collaborated with Cambridge Medical Academy for several years in pursuing the potential in a knowledge sharing of global practices from traditional and contemporary Chinese medicine with Western medicine and research – and potentially integrating also traditional Mongolian, Indian, African, or indigenous American practices also. Being humble enough to recognise that we still need to explore practices, compounds, and interactions much more across borders. While modern science has advanced immensely during the 20th Century in particular, neither oceans, space, genomics, or microbiomes are fully explored.
To advance the understanding and benefit of global collaboration, NWA participated in the One Health One Road inagural conference in Danfeng south of the historical city of Xi’an – renowned for the discovery of the terracota army of soldiers and the birthplace of the first Chinese dynasty of emperors. The conference gathered 400 dedicated researchers, especially from the Chinese TCM community, but also a small number of European changemakers eager to learn more by integrating ideas and approaches. Lars Münter shared experiences from our work in the Nordic Health 2030 Movement and the Danish Life Science Cluster on the future and nature of health and wellbeing, and the role of trust and collaboration for transformation in communities, institutions, and societies towards a sustainable future.
One Health Personalised Medicine – 12th IMBMC in Nicosia
The European University of Cyprus and the Cyprus Medical Association has developed a high-level and target forum for both knowledge sharing and informal dialogue about cutting edge health technology and clinical discoveries that can improve health.
NWA was invited to present our work in the Nordic Health 2030 Movement and also the latest development of a model for assessment of multipartner collaboration framework for the Danish Life Science Cluster. This took place as part of a dedicated session one personalised medicine, organised by the Cambridge Medical Academy.
Held in Nicosia, Cyprus, 7-9 November 2024, the 12th IMBMC international congress event also allowed NWA to see the vibrant atmosphere in the last divided city in Europe – and both the challenge and potential of joint collaboration for a prosperous future for all. The alternative – or the cost of inaction – is enourmous.
Elevate Health – connecting minds in Barcelona
Elevate Health is a growing network of researchers from across non-institutional stakeholders dedicated to discussing both models for assessment of health and transformative pathways.
NWA participated in a creative workshop for validating a new analytic model – in a fascinating mix of people and minds. Read more about the group here.
Global Health Literacy Summit Rotterdam!
The International Health Literacy Association (IHLA) held it first ever in-person event in Rotterdam – with global participation, is was a landmark event for both the community and the international endavours to bring data insights and collaborative research into the center of health planning, promotion, and policies.
The first Global Health Literacy Summit had been scheduled for Taiwan in 2021, but had to be held as online event; thus this event allowed partners and experts to finally connect directly after years of collaboration.
NWA participated in both discussions and events by also presenting work we’ve done in partnership with the European Health Futures Forum – EHFF.
Fighting Cancer
NWA Lars Münter was invited to join the inaugural session of the EU Consortium for Cancer Prevention – the EU CCP. The EU CCP has been created to work as a stronger engagement engine for the efforts across EU to create better prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and overall mortality and wellbeing outcomes for cancer.
The EU CCP has been setup by the JA PreventNCD that is the largest Joint Action to date. In collaboration with JACARDI (Joint Action on cardiovascular disease) and WHO Europe.
Read more about the many initiatives and events in JA PreventNCD here.
Engaging in Horizon Europe
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.
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