Chris Smith

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This event was excellent and a packed audience, judging from Facebook and Twitter, enjoyed a lively debate of the ideas raised.
Graham Hogg and Alex Hobday presented a vison of a ‘Nordic […]

Excellent Elderly Care – how does Sweden do it?
“People worry they might NOT get into a council nursing home. That’s how popular they are. But cutbacks mean every 4th place has disappeared in the last 12 yea […]

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Mike Mackenzie MSP has kindly offered to host this meeting in the Scottish Parliament, Committee Room 3. The timing and date of this meeting are unchanged – 1 May 2013 at 6pm – it is simply the venue that has been […]

Nordic Scotland – Graham Hogg and Alex Hobday

Hemma Bar  – 6pm May 1st 2013

Possible Orkney

Orkney sits at a strategic location within the Northern Periphery – a gateway for the Nordic region within a global […]

Beyond NATO – Event Details
Norway is a member of NATO, Finland is not. Does that single fact produce radically different thinking about peace and security in the two nations? Or does more unite the Nordic […]

Meeting Details
Audio recordings and presentation
Here are two audio  files which are the recordings of each speaker. They are live recordings in situ.

Download Iceland Strikes Back – Thorvaldur […]

The UHI video link and Lesley

It's official – with the help and assistance of Elaine Morrison of the UHI last week's 'Great Green Danes' was beamed around the UHI network from Edinburgh. Well […]

Great Green Danes – Digital Notes
(L-R) Drew Ratter, Martin Mathers,Jenny Marra, Lesley Riddoch, Soren Hermansen

All the material from the Great Green Danes meeting is collected here.

Dave Watson from […]

Details of the venue location at Edinburgh University have been finalised. An  additional speaker  Sigrun Davidsdottir has been confirmed and  all up to date details are available here.

Is Small Still Beautiful – Digital Notes
The  event ‘Nordic Revolutions – Cycling in Copenhagen’ was held on  Dec 4th 2012 in Committee Room 2 at the Scottish Parliament and hosted by Alison Johnstone MSP. It wa […]

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Nordic Welfare Event Poster

After the meeting about Nordic Welfare with Profs Jon Kvist and Jochen Clasen, we have recorded a short summary podcast with Lesley Riddoch giving her report and initial thoughts.
You […]

Nordic Welfare Events Poster

This was the Nordic Horizons event that promised;

 “From the land of Lego and fairytales we bring you the building blocks to create your own welfare systems. What is it ab […]

Anya Hultberg

Anya Hultberg of the Copenhagen House of Food talks to Lesley Riddoch about the amazing conversion of Copenhagen's public kitchens to organic. It is an integral part of the 'Carbon […]

Energy from Rubbish – Event Details
Our next speaker will be Kim Olsson from NSR Helsingborg, Sweden

Scotland’s new waste reduction targets look ambitious — from 2014 local authorities will have to offer h […]

Professor Jon Kvist, 
Centre for Welfare State Research, University of Southern Denmark
Wednesday 28th November 2012
Venue: Old College – Lecture Theatre 175 (far
right corner of old quad opp Blackwells on So […]

Professor Jon Kvist, 
Centre for Welfare State Research, University of Southern Denmark
Wednesday 28th November 2012
Venue: Old College – Lecture Theatre 175 (far
right corner of old quad opp Blackwells on So […]

This is the provocative title for an article written by Øivind
Bratberg of the University of Oslo. It is an edited version of his presentation to Nordic Horizons in June. You can download and read the article in full here.