NCoE NORD-STAR (Nordic Strategic Adaptation Research)
Nordic Centre of Excellence (NCoE) NORD-STAR aims to develop tools to help the Nordic countries address the twin challenge of a warmer climate and the side effects of policy impacts.
Project leader: Michael Goodsite, Center Director AU Herning, Aarhus University (MichaelG@hih.au.dk)
NORD-STAR research shall lead to better support for decision-making and strategy development by linking adaptation and mitigation, and using climate visualization techniques and decision-making tools to bridge the gap between science and policy at the Nordic level. The research is designed to help Nordic countries maintain competitive advantages and identify cost-effective adaptation measures.
NORD-STAR brings together Nordic key research excellence to address the challenges of a warmer climate and the side effects of policy impacts. Research, education and community dialogue will contribute to achieving this goal.
The Graduate Training Programme will be a Nordic alliance of accredited universities and institutions providing education through solutions-oriented and tool-based courses, allowing graduate students and researchers to integrate analysis, synthesis and communication. All post docs will be mentored by senior researchers involved in the project.
A core objective of NORD-STAR is to develop practical, easily accessible and user-friendly tools, which shall enhance the adaptive capacity of among others: planners, civil servants, organisations, industries and decision-makers in the Nordic countries. Consequently, dissemination is an integral and important part of the project.
NORD-STAR considers itself to be a Nordic adaptation resource point offering a wide array of Nordic expertise to enhance adaptive capacity in governments, agencies and business, also open for collaboration with other research programmes.
Read the NORD-STAR information folder here
Read more on the NCoE NORD-STAR website
Photo: Eivind Sætre, norden.org
