Deadline: 09-Jun-2023
The Nordic Working Group for Chemicals, Environment, and Health (NKE) is accepting applications for project funding for 2024.
NKE is working towards to help minimise the negative health and environmental effects of chemicals in products, emissions and waste. NKE covers a wide area and co-operation on chemicals is a big challenge. Over the years, NKE has built and expanded networks of experts from national agencies in the Nordic countries. NKE has also set up sub-groups (project groups) as per the targets set for the various areas.
Nordic co-operation has often taken the form of exerting influence on EU regulations but also covers other aspects of international work, e.g. conventions, the Arctic environment, test methods and OECD work on chemicals, which also forms the foundations for EU regulation. NKE believes that the networks have the best prerequisite for coming up with new and current questions how Nordic work can address the critical issues with chemicals in the Nordic countries, the EU, and globally. They welcome new ideas and encourage forward way of thinking: What knowledge do they lack today and what do they need to acquire knowledge of?
Goals and priorities for chemicals
- Improve knowledge about substances, their properties, and their risks
- Use this knowledge to encourage companies to increase their efforts to substitute hazardous substances with less hazardous alternatives to a greater extent
- Work to strengthen the EU chemicals regulations relating to grouping of hazardous substances
- Limit and minimise the risks from the use of hazardous substances
- Make available information about chemicals in materials, goods, and waste and ensure its use to prevent damage to the environment and health
- Co-operate on the supervision of chemicals in goods and products, in recycling, and in e-commerce.
Global chemical effort
- Work globally to support new targets and strategies relating to chemicals and waste in order to limit the international spread of substances of very high concern
- Work to improve transfer of information on hazardous substances
- Pay special attention to the presence and impact of chemicals in the northern regions and the Arctic.
Funding Information
- NKE works within the frame of Nordic Council’s budget. In the past years, NKE budget has been around 4 MDKK which is divided into several projects. In the past, the biggest single project funded has been around DKK 600 000. Depending on the total number of project proposals received for the call, agreed priorities and the total sum to be shared, NKE may cut the budget and ask applicants to adapt their project proposals accordingly.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any municipal, regional, or national authorities, universities and colleges, research institutes and other non- profit organizations may apply for grants from NKE. Business enterprises cannot be the main applicants and recipients of funding, but may, for example, be included as project participants, participate in the project group, or work on the project on behalf of the project owner. A project shall involve a minimum of three Nordic countries or alternatively two Nordic countries and at least one non-Nordic country.
For more information, visit NKE.