Nordic countries cooperate on education and research
The Nordic education is of high professional quality and Nordic youngsters are in demand worldwide for their personal and professional skills. With a joint Nordic effort can training be even better. In 2010, takes over Denmark Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers. As chairman country focuses Denmark in the Nordic countries as education and research. The pivotal points are language, talent and creativity. The goal is that the Nordic education and research can match the best in the world and attract, train and retain talented international students and researchers. Tuesday, December 8th publishes the Ministry of Education and Science, a sector program, which builds on Denmark's overall chairmanship program, "Norden in progress". Education Minister Bertel Haarder looking forward to assuming the presidency. "Together we can achieve more than apart. We have not just a linguistic community, which we must maintain and use. We also have a cultural community and a common tradition of quality education. We must make a concerted effort to keep young people in education, develop talent and especially, make children and young people's interest in science, "he says. Science Minister Helge Sander is looking forward to developing a strong research collaboration between the Nordic countries. "Nordic cooperation is to coordinate a joint Nordic effort in relation to pan-European research facilities and, not least, upgrading and construction of research facilities in the Nordic countries. I look forward to continuing the work in 2010, "says Helge Sander. Denmark will make an effort to attract more people the scientific course of education. The countries' experiences with what works, discussed at a conference on talent development and creativity in education and research in the sciences. A language campaign should make the Nordic language and culture more visible, and make children, young people and their teachers interested in the Scandinavian languages. The countries' good experience to be at all divided and the good examples disseminated - in terms of, among others in the practical / musical subjects. Children and young people with special needs must complete their education and training with a good result. A study comparing the special education and support services to children in primary school, and a conference is to determine which models work best. The focus is on dropouts in education, and here the Nordic countries have much to learn from each other. In different ways, they try to get as many as possible to complete an education. The actions to be jointly further work. Vocational training must be recognized all over the Nordic region, and opportunities for enhanced collaboration on professional training in the welfare area to be examined. Cooperation on lifelong learning should be strengthened through various strategies. In university education, efforts by Nordic master programs in which Denmark will try to create a division of labor between the Nordic countries, so that small university only offered individual places. In April there will also be a conference on the profiling of Nordic strengths within higher education and research in global comparisons. On research, Denmark will in close cooperation with the other Nordic countries highlight the Nordic countries' role in the European Research Area. This will be done by using the joint Nordic research excellence in climate, environment and energy. Source: Ministry of Education
