There is a moment Eleanna Malliou returns to when asked about mental resilience. She is in a fire truck moving through a crowd of families who have been told to leave their homes. A wildfire is burning somewhere above them in the mountain. The people standing on either side of the road don’t know yet whether their houses will be there when it ends.

What Firefighters and Medicine Teach Us About Mental Resilience In 1949, fifteen elite smokejumpers leaped into the Montana wilderness to confront what appeared to be a routine forest fire. Within hours, thirteen of them were dead. The Mann Gulch disaster has since become the definitive case study for how high-performing… Read more: The Team Is the Unit of Survival

As part of our work in the EU Social Innovation+ Initiative project ISRICM, the Nordic Wellbeing Academy and its European partners are happy to release recording of the fourth webinar in our series from April 8 on social inclusion. The webinar features the key experts Cristina Carnovale –… Read more: ISRICM 4th Webinar on Social Inclusion – Video released

– Afaf Kabbani on why she is joining the EU-PROMENS Training Programme in Denmark With 17 years of experience as a midwife and an upcoming master’s degree in social psychology, Afaf Kabbani is no stranger to standing at the intersection of professions, sectors, and human lives. Yet –… Read more: Interdisciplinarity Is Not Enough on Its Own

Press release – March 20th, 2026New webinar announced – In our series of webinars as part of the ISRICM project, we are happy to announce the closing edition on social inclusion taking place April 8th, 15 CET. Connecting social inclusion activist Cristina Carnovale, Diversity Researcher Dr Yvonne Prinzellner,… Read more: Press Release – ISRICM Webinar on Social Inclusion, April 8

NWA are happy to announce that we will be supporting the European mental health programme EU-PROMENS in Denmark. Across Denmark, we will conduct a total series of 6 training sessions (3 Core, 3 Advanced) and two webinars – read more about these and sign up here. Join to… Read more: EU-PROMENS and NWA to advance Multidisciplinary Training Programme in Denmark

As part of our work in the EU Social Innovation+ Initiative project ISRICM, the Nordic Wellbeing Academy and its European partners are happy to release recording of the third webinar in our series from March 4 on leadership. The webinar features the key experts Julia Persson – Scita… Read more: ISRICM 3rd Webinar on Leadership – Video released

In late January, NWA joined partners from Denmark, Greece, and Italy on the island of Syros for the Forgotten Fish project’s second implementation meeting – two days that brought together chefs, fishermen, cultural organisations, local authorities, and educators around a shared question: what would it take for the… Read more: Greek Horizons for Forgotten Fish

As part of our work in the EU Social Innovation+ Initiative project ISRICM, the Nordic Wellbeing Academy and its European partners are happy to release recording of the second webinar in our series from February 24 on social inclusion. The webinar features the key experts Carina Dantas –… Read more: ISRICM Webinar on Social Inclusion – Video released

Press release – February 4th, 2026: New webinar announced – In our series of webinars as part of the ISRICM project, we are happy to announce a new edition on leadership taking place March 4th, 10 CET. Connecting CEO of Danish Life Science Cluster Diana Arsovic – leader,… Read more: Press release – ISRICM Webinar on Leadership, March 4

For more than thirty years, Steve Worrall’s professional identity was forged in the intensity of the fire service. His career progressed from trainee engineer at Rolls-Royce to Assistant Chief Fire Officer for Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service. Leadership in that environment was shaped by rigid hierarchy and a… Read more: Crossing the threshold: From incident command to the therapy room

Press Release – Copenhagen, January 12, 2026As part of the EU Social Innovation+ Initiative project ISRICM, the Nordic Wellbeing Academy and its European partners are happy to announce the new and fascinating webinar taking place February 24, 14.00 CET on social inclusion. The webinar features the key experts… Read more: Press Release – ISRICM Webinar on Social Inclusion February 24, 2026

As part of the EU Social Innovation+ Initiative project ISRICM, this is the first in our series webinar about social inclusion and leadership in HR. Our first, held January 7th, connected Liza Collins, Kateryna Ostrovska, and Nina Sønderberg in a debate about future workplaces and the power of… Read more: ISRICM Webinar on Leadership – Video released

Working Together4Health – an obvious goal for stakeholders in the health ecosystem, but sometimes still a strategic challenge. It was therefore also the title of the Danish EU Presidency conference September 16-18 in Aalborg, Denmark. Read more about it here During the conference NWA and the European Health… Read more: Future Health Workforce – from Aalborg to the world

Across the globe, a silent crisis is growing. Rates of mental illness, loneliness, and social distress are climbing, and our formal systems are struggling to keep up. But while governments and healthcare providers search for large-scale solutions, some of the most effective answers are emerging from an unexpected… Read more: How the Danish Askov Foundation proves that community heals

Press Release, December 2025As part of the EU Social Innovation+ Initiative project ISRICM, the first webinar about leadership in HR has been launched. Coming January 7th, this webinar will bring together Liza Collins, Kateryna Ostrovska, and Nina Sønderberg in a debate about future workplaces and the power of… Read more: Press Release – ISRICM Webinar on Leadership Jan 7

Five surprising innovation lessons from a Danish health initiative Complex societal challenges—whether climate change, mental health, or broader public health issues—often become stuck in bureaucratic silos and rigid hierarchies. Well-intentioned initiatives stall under competing agendas and fragmented systems, making real progress feel painfully slow. But what if it… Read more: Danish Life Science Cluster: Beyond the Buzzwords

Since 1973, World Hello Day has been an annual opportunity to bring people together in local events with global impact. Recently we got a challenge, however. The great entrepreneur for social action, Christian Altenius, invited us to also take part in the Hela Sverige säger HEJ! Swedish edition… Read more: World Hello Day – from local to global

Policing is a profession that demands not only physical strength but also immense mental resilience. Over the past two decades, the demands on police officers have changed tremendously and so has the conversation around mental health in policing.  To understand this shift, Nordic Wellbeing Academy spoke with Professor John Harrison, National Police Chief Medical Officer for England and Wales. His work has been pivotal in shifting the culture from one of silence and stigma to one of openness and support and how mental resilience is being prioritised in modern policing. 

As part of the ISRICM project, NWA is happy to present a full report on Guidelines for Integrating Refugees into Workplaces. This report is the result of extensive dialogue with HR professionals to build a next generation structure for empathy and social progress via workplaces. The report will… Read more: Empathy in Workplaces – new report for ISRICM

As part of Lars Münters work in the WHO Europe Strategic Partners Initiative for Data and Digital Health, he was invited by The Society of Occupational Medicine October 9th to present at a webinar. Hosted by Professor Niel Greenberg, Chair of The SOM, Lars there presented the process… Read more: Can we deliver digital prevention of burnout? Webinar for The Society of Occupational Medicine

Going from Aalborg and the EU Presidency to Tallinn and the WHO – Future Health Workforce is key to the discussion. NWA participated with Nina Sønderberg and Lars Münter, where Lars Münter was invited to the session to address different policy-level aspects crucial for building sustainable health workforces… Read more: Future Health Workforce – from EU to WHO in Tallinn

In collaboration with the One Health One Road Alliance, Cambridge Medical Academy, European University Cyprus, European Health Futures Forum, and IE Open, the Nordic Wellbeing Academy is organising the Danish-Cypriot EU Policy Sessions – a series of health policy side sessions at the IMBMC 2025 in Nicosia, Cyprus… Read more: Future EU Policy event in Cyprus November 6-8, 2025

Collaborative creativity at its finest in Aalborg September 18th. NWA collaborated with EHFF to build a co-creative workshop with Natasha Azzopardi Muscat – Director of the Division of Country Health Polices and Systems WHO Europe, Charlotte Marchandise – Executive Director EUPHA, and Stella Goeschl – Young Action Group… Read more: Building Future Health Workforce at Together4Health – Danish EU Presidency conference

Working in partnerships is one of the most rewarding, most needed, and most difficult endavours humans can do. Building a good relational strategy is a first step, but figuring out if the strategy works can be tricky. Or it used to be! Two new report created by the… Read more: Partnership impact report – New tool for Trust and Transformation

As part of the ISRICM-EU project, NWA conducted a webinar September 10th to explore the use of EFT in HR and expand on the learning of the HR workshop at the ISEFT conference in Bucharest. NWA and the participants explored the integration of emotion-focused therapy principles into human… Read more: EFT for HR – ISRICM Project Webinar

Africa called – from Berlin. As always a great place to visit; this time to attend the Digital Health Africa 2025, organised by/at Charité. We had the great pleasure of presenting two posters; the first – Women’s Occupational Burnout – on behalf of the EHFF European Health Futures… Read more: AMR and Women’s Health – from Berlin to Africa

As part of the MentaStress project, NWA visited Greater Copenhagen Fire Departmentin April 2025 and learned more about their history, transformational journey, and current landscape of psychosocial support. MentaStress aims to enhance mental health and stress management for first responders through augmented reality (AR) training. More recently, NWA… Read more: Leading by Example: How a Copenhagen Firefighter is Shaping a More Mentally Resilient Force

Mental health is an urgent issue across every country and society. So it was a great learning experience for us – and both fun, tough, challenging, and rewarding for the professionals and families from Kazakhstan to be able to participate in the 33rd edition of the summer school… Read more: NWA in Kazakhstan summer school

Nordic Wellbeing Academy participated in Digital Public Health 2025 in Madeira, July 24-26, 2025. Three great days of knowledge sharing in an amazing scenery. Some great results it was: Award-win!With Carina Dantas, Miriam Cabrita, and Paloma Moraga, we won an award for Best Student Abstract (as Carina Dantas… Read more: Madeira Magic – sharing MyHealth@MyHands, MentaStress, and more

NWA contributed with great team of experts led by EuroHealthNet to build a new guidance with policy pathways for five key domains for health: 1. Nurturing planet earth and its ecosystems2. Promoting social protection and welfare systems based on equity, inclusion and solidarity3. Promoting equitable universal health coverage4.… Read more: WHO policy framework for wellbeing – with dash of NWA

The International Society for Emotion-Focused Therapy is a vibrant community of researchers, educators, coaches, trainers, and – of course – therapists. The ISEFT 2025 conference in Bucharest was therefore a wonderful mix of practice, theory, exploration, and dialogue. NWA had the pleasure of both presenting our MentaStress project… Read more: ISEFT in Bucharest – Emotion-Focused Therapy futures

The ambitions of the JA PreventNCD project are huge; Finally being able to significantly build the policy frameworks and services that can fundamentally and radically reduce the impact of NCDs in Europe.  As part of these ambitions, the project is building the EU Consortium on NCD Prevention to… Read more: Trust and Innovation for future NCD policies – JA PreventNCD

EuroHealthNet is a key European connector of public health actors, innovators, researchers, and entrepreneurs. The annual seminar is a highlight of knowledge sharing for institutions across Europe in their efforts to promote best practices, build future policies, and to navigate shifting political landscapes. The annual seminar 2025 focused… Read more: Climate change and health – EuroHealthNet – annual seminar

There is a huge potential in exploring the many ways art and artistic practices can be used to create awareness about mental health, support resilience, extend emotional health literacy, treat or reduce symptoms, or be a great bridge in the process towards rehabilitation. NWA once again participated with… Read more: Arts & Mental Health – May 23-24, 2025 – Aegina

The International Foundation for Integrated Care is an amazing community for trying cross-sector collaboration and reinventing service design (while studying the process at the same time). NWA had the pleasure of presenting a poster at the 2025 conference event in Lisbon on building a Next Generation Digital Model… Read more: Integrated Care Futures – May 14-16, 2025 – Lisbon

The Icelandic government has been a strong supporter of the principles of wellbeing economy for years. Their track record of public health innovation and holistic thinking is second to none. One of the key events and initiatives for this process has been the hosting of the annual Wellbeing… Read more: Wellbeing Economy Forum – May 8-9, 2025 – Reykjavik

We are really excited about the launch of a new project in NWA as part of the Social Innovation Initiative. The project, “Innovative Solutions for Refugee Integration and Crisis Mitigation in EU Member States,” aims to address the humanitarian crisis caused by the war in Ukraine by facilitating… Read more: ISRICM-EU – new project launched for NWA

Looking the the future was the task at the HRH Symposium in Copenhagen April 28-30 at WHO Europe HQ in Copenhagen. NWA co-founder Lars Münter was invited to join both plenary panel, facilitate workshop on potential use of AI to reduce HCP burnout, and be a panelist in… Read more: WHO Symposium for Future Workforce – Copenhagen April 28-30, 2025

Rare diseases are becoming quite common. Or rather, research has now finally caught up and enabled us to build cures for a long range of genetic disorders and diseases, that would have been impossible to cure or treat just a few years ago. However, the production pipeline for… Read more: Climbing Mount Everest for Future Gene Therapy

The myHealth@myHands project will help address the growing need for a unified data ecosystem across the European Union.With 38 partners across 18 countries, the ambition is strong, the tech is ready, and the timing is right. Currently, accessing medical records and digital health services can be a challenge,… Read more: Project kick off in Dublin – MyHealth@MyHands

In the MentaStress project we had the a great meeting with the project partners in Copenhagen April 3-4. We discussed the key results from the end users surveys and the implications and needs to cover in the upcoming training material. We also had a very insightful meeting at… Read more: MentaStress – project meeting in Copenhagen

As part of our collaboration with EHFF, NWA was invited to participate in the D-A-CH Dialog in Vienna March 30-April 1, 2025. With key topics and workshop, the possible experiences and pathways forward for health literacy strategies in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland was discussed in co-creative space for… Read more: Health Literacy Strategies Across Europe – in Vienna

In a collaboration with European University Cyprus, the Cambridge Medical Academy, European Health Futures Forum, Digital Mental Health Consortium, ElevateHealth, and IE Open NWA organised a conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, March 20-21, 2025 The conference focused pathways to integrate Eastern and Western medical practices with modern technology and… Read more: Future of Personalised Medicine – Nicosia, March 21-22, 2025

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… Read more: Wellbeing Economy in Brussels – March 4, 2025

Trust literacy, trust challenges, trust by design, and trust futures – and wonderful debate about philosophy, technology, and strategy for trust. Find below recording of our webinar February 27, 2025 – or read the summary report here.  

The 2025 OECD Social Policy Ministerial meeting was held on 14 February 2025 at the OECD Conference Centre in Paris, France, and focused on the theme New Frontiers for Social Policy: Investing in the Future. The meeting provided a platform to for Ministers to come together and exchange ideas,… Read more: OECD High-Level Social Policy Forum

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… Read more: Invest4Health – Horizon Europe

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… Read more: Trust in Brussels – Summary Report

EU Health Coalition is a multi-stakeholder initiative with some 50+ member organisations looking at mapping the future of healthcare in Europe. The EU Health Coalition Summit looks across organisation types, disease areas, professions, and works to promote the issue of health in all European policies. Read more. NWA… Read more: EU Health Coalition – Summit 2025

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… Read more: Trust in Transformation?

EUREGHA plays a vital role in advancing local implementation of health policies while fostering a broader European understanding of the strengths and challenges of a regional approach to health and wellbeing. By bringing together regional and local health authorities across Europe, EUREGHA facilitates the exchange of knowledge, best… Read more: Local action towards global impact

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… Read more: Global knowledge sharing for wellbeing

The sustainable future does not happen by chance. So we are happy to be able to annonce a new strategic collaboration between the Nordic Wellbeing Academy and the European Health Futures Forum that holds significant potential for transforming healthcare in Europe by combining the collective expertise in wellbeing,… Read more: Great Futures in London – Strategic Collaboration Agreement signed

Since 2019, the Data Saves Lives initiative by the European Patients Forum has been vital for the important discussion about the digital transformation of healthcare and social services in Europe – and the key role of patient voices in all those evolutions. By ensuring data is accurate, secure,… Read more: Data Saves Lives – with a healthy dose of AI?

The challenge of antimicrobial resistance rises almost exponentially, threatening to destroy decades of progress in modern surgery or other invasive prodecures. The change gear, the Swedish multistakeholder initiative AntibiotikaSmart has been established as a national action platform, lead primarily by RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden) in collaboration with… Read more: AMR – the (too) slow burning platform

Digitalisation and digital transformation has been at the core of the EHiN conference for a decade – a growing event for partners in and outside the Nordics to understand the evolution and challenges of both Nordic, European, and global e-health possibilities and realities. NWA participated and facilitated a… Read more: E-Health in Norway – EHiN 2024

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… Read more: One Health Personalised Medicine – 12th IMBMC in Nicosia

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… Read more: Elevate Health – connecting minds in Barcelona

It is always exciting to get to the first actual meeting in a new project. In the Forgotten Fish project this meant a visit to the Foggia province of Apulia, Italy. Given the purpose of the project – to find new paths to enable gastronomical entrepreneurs to transform… Read more: Finally kick off! Forgotten Fish in Italy

What do doctors need to know? Obviously a lot. And building the right curricula for doctors is one of the core functions of medical schools across the globe. Science, experience, technology, demographics, and climate too change over time. So must the curricula for doctors. This is the background… Read more: Wellbeing Economy – an urgent issue for medical schools

With project partners in Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus, and Hungary, NWA was excited to join the kick off meeting in Limoges, France for the MentaStress project: Empowering First Responders for Better Mental Health in Crisis Situations. The project is an innovative EU-wide initiative designed to both enhance first… Read more: MentaStress – kick off in Limoges

Smart Health Age-Friendly Environments are the purpose of the SHAFE Foundation. NWA has the great honour of participating in the EU Week for Sustainable and Inclusive Communities: the future is SHAFE – taking place October 1-3, 2024. NWA participated with a presentation on “Looking at the future: health… Read more: Future of healthy aging in Europe

The Future of Trust? NWA participated in the Tour de Health 2024 organised by Healthcare Denmark to present its work on establishing a KPI model to assess quality and progress in multistakeholder partnerships, especially for mission-driven ones. The Tour de Health 2024 gathered health care and life science… Read more: Tour de Health

The theme of EHFG 2024 was the shifting sands of health – a core challenge for health and wellbeing in Europe is the ever shifting strategic interests of health in both the Member States and in the EU. The policy forum in Gastein offers a unique opportunity to… Read more: European Health Forum Gastein – 2024

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… Read more: Global Health Literacy Summit Rotterdam!

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… Read more: Fighting Cancer