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

Cool news – a new project to explore the use of Forgotten Fish Forgotten fish are species underused by industrial fishing due to their small size or failure to reach a threshold for commercial trade, thus being underused in mass consumption and catering. Usually caught accidentally, they are… Read more: Forgotten Fish – Erasmus+ project

Mental health – stress management for first responders through augmented reality in disasters As a new experience, we’ll be part of a French-led consortium to explore better pathways towards mental health in a very challenging workplace – disaster, accidents, and crisis. With 8 other partners from France, Cyprus,… Read more: New Erasmus+ project on the way

NWA participated in the 15th edition of the ECW Conference (Energy, Creative Collaboration, and Wellbeing in Organisations) in Pasturo Italy in June 2024 – a gathering organised by the Il Nodo Group. (see https://www.ilnodogroup.it/en/event/ecw-2024-group-relations-conference/) The event was a very insightful experience into the Tavistock Method also in addition… Read more: Group Relations – Italian Style

NESEI – Network of European Social Entrepreneurs and Innovators launched! NWA participated in a great event in Brussels April 2024 to connect organisations, minds, and ideas on social progress. More to come from the network – read more (and join!) here.

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… Read more: Engaging in Horizon Europe

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… Read more: Trust and Transformation

In 2023 we began considering how different uses of the Erasmus+ framework might be a method to share Danish experiences across borders and facilitating knowledge sharing between sectors and silos. The Erasmus+ programme enables thousands of projects for professional knowledge sharing, but also enable interpersonal upskilling. Read more… Read more: Erasmus – sharing experiences