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Maritime heritage sites and sustainable approaches – insights from the CHARLO intensive programme in Åland Islands

In this blog post we describe how we approached the task of creating circular solutions and socially sustainable solutions for Sjökvarteret in Åland Islands.

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Weaving the WAVE: Navigating trade-offs in co-producing a Nordic marine bioeconomy

Planetary health is under threat, and the need to rethink our relationship with the ocean has never been more urgent. In this text we present WAVE, a new Nordplus project designed to transform marine "waste" into valuable skills and opportunities. In this blog post, we take an unusual step. Instead of reporting on completed work, we apply recent research on co-production to map out the tensions and design choices we face right at the start – using transparency as a tool for better management.

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Onboarding internationally educated nurses in the Nordic countries

This blog post reports the findings from a master thesis (Husted, 2024) that explored existing research on onboarding practices for internationally educated nurses in Nordic countries with the aims to identify best practices and recommend guidelines based on global standards and the theory of organisational socialisation.

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Let’s get our concepts straight: metaverse, Web3 and sustainability

Feeling confused or uncertain about what metaverse and Web3 mean? And what about how it is linked to sustainability? Is it even possible for our activities in the digital world to be sustainable?

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A passage into cultural sustainability in Web3

In a time of global crisis, the only thing that is certain is constant change. A multitude of sectors and groups in society are trying to deal with the crisis. One such sector is the cultural heritage sector. Our world is full of cultural heritage that needs to be preserved: artifacts, knowledge, sites, buildings, monuments. Climate change, wars and the sheer volume of heritage that we should preserve makes this into an enormous task.

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Can Web3 create social sustainability, or are we facing the world's most advanced loneliness?

Does Web3 foster community or isolation? This blog post explores if the metaverse creates social sustainability or just more loneliness. The authors argue that by filtering out life's "messiness," we risk replacing true friendship with mere transaction.

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Arcada at EMS2025 conference in Stockholm

For three days, the front dock of the Waterfront Congress Center in downtown Stockholm swarmed with Swedish ambulance units, splashing blue lights onto the high center walls like an urban art show, while emergency professionals walked in and out at a brisk pace. The EMS 2025 congress filled the center halls with sessions on around emergency care, keynotes from Lee Wallis of WHO, and Sofia Iveslätt of Medicines sans Frontiers, who highlighted the need for basic education and working in war-torn areas.

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Artificial intelligence in elderly care: a double-edged innovation?

This blog post summarises key findings of our bachelor’s thesis in healthcare AI-driven Technologies in Elderly Care: Benefits and Challenges (Mitra & Alam, 2025). The thesis aimed to explore recent developments in the use of AI-based tools in elderly care.

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It takes a system to save a life – reflections from EMS2025

The EMS2025 conference in Stockholm in June was jam-packed with content by global and local experts from the European Emergency Medical Services (EMS) field, sparking consideration of some of the main points that EMS will need to consider developing in the future. Based on our perspective, what are some main take-home messages from all of this?

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