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EPSE’s Green Zone Concept Advances Circular Water Use in Global Industry
Water scarcity, industrial emissions, and resource inefficiency are increasingly interconnected challenges for heavy industry. In 2025, EPSE took a significant step toward addressing these challenges through the introduction of its Green Zone...
Drone-based REE (Rare Earth Element) Exploration with Nordic Twist
Editor’s Note: This is a long read about seeking out Rare Earth Materials - but it is useful to pick topics of interest… Early academic demonstrations around 2019–2020 showed drones could carry lightweight hyperspectral cameras and...
Finland Pushes the Frontier of Market AI: Tampere Team Decodes Microsecond Trading
Tampere University researchers are developing fast, interpretable AI models that read financial markets at microsecond speed—offering new tools for safer, smarter trading in an era dominated by high-frequency algorithms. High-frequency trading...
Finland’s AI Landscape 2025: A Strategic Nordic Powerhouse in Specialised Applications
Finland has great strengths in AI development with deep but specialised AI sector supported by successful private companies and public bodies like VTT and their universities. Peter Sarlin, founder of Silo Ltd, now part of AMD, is one of the AI...
How Trump’s Policy Agenda Threatens Nordic Innovation
Nordic innovation has long thrived on a foundation of rule-based governance, international cooperation, scientific integrity, and predictable regulatory environments. Yet the emerging direction of the Trump administration points toward a...
Nordic Defence Innovations – 20 November 2025 –
(Coverage: roughly 23 October – 20 November 2025) 🇫🇮 FINLAND 🇫🇮 Finland’s VTT–Millog partnership accelerates defence-innovation transfer VTT and Millog signed a new cooperation agreement to speed up the transition from research to...
Nitrogen Fixation in the Melting Arctic – Danish Research Innovation
A Hidden Driver of Ocean ProductivityAs the Arctic Ocean warms and sea ice retreats, scientists are uncovering surprising biological processes that could reshape our understanding of marine ecosystems. A recent study published in Communications...
Swedish Innovations in October 2025
🇸🇪 Sweden 1) Ericsson + Nokia + Fraunhofer show 6G video codingFirst live demo for next-gen codec over 5G/6G network.Step toward immersive comms at 6G latencies.Multi-vendor R&D milestone.Source: Ericsson, 27 Oct...
Do traditional communication channels achieve international visibility for Nordic companies?
All Innovative Nordic companies and scientific bodies want and need international visibility – exports are essential but getting the innovations out into the markets is increasingly challenging. In today’s hyper-connected world, Nordic...
Revisiting COVID‑19 – Have Lessons from Nordics Been Learnt?
During the COVID‑19 pandemic, Nordic countries exhibited relatively low mortality despite divergent policies. Denmark, Finland, and Norway recorded minimal excess deaths compared to reference years, while Sweden experienced modest excess...
Saab’s Innovative Unmanned Airborne Early Warning Solution
Saab, the Swedish defence and security leader, has announced a groundbreaking partnership with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) to develop an innovative Unmanned Airborne Early Warning (UAEW) solution. This strategic cooperation...
Nordic Countries like Finland Must Link Data Centre Development to New Energy and Grid Commitments
In today’s energy‑constrained world, data centres are far from innovations—they are colossal consumers of electricity. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), “there is no AI without energy – specifically electricity,”...
America’s Democratic Drift: Why the Nordics Should Be Concerned
By Nicholas Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, forumNordic In an increasingly interconnected world, the stability of the United States—economically, politically, and morally—has long served as a cornerstone of Western liberal democracies. For decades,...
Breakthroughs from Nordic Research Bodies: A Review of Nine Key Scientific Advances
In the latest edition of forumNordic News, nine press releases highlight groundbreaking scientific achievements from Nordic institutions including SINTEF, VTT, Aalto, DTU, Chalmers, and KTH. These announcements span diverse fields from climate...
Nordic-French Energy Alliance Powers UK’s Renewable Ambitions
A powerful cross-border partnership between Finland’s Wärtsilä and France’s EDF Renewables is helping the UK take major steps toward its clean energy goals. Combining Nordic battery innovation with French renewable energy expertise, the two...
