Communication

Target audience

The group’s main target group is Nordic university employees who work professionally, wholly or partly, with communication.

Focus areas

• Offer a platform for expanding individual professional network.
• Offer competence development for communication officers.
• Making it easier to share experiences with other communication officers in the Nordic countries.

Possible topics in focus the coming years:

• New ways of communication after the pandemic.
• Supporting researchers in handling disinformation, harassment, and counter-fake news.
• Increase awareness of the international competition.
• How to make digital transformation possible.
• The group closely monitors what is in the foreground within communications at the norcic universities at any given time, and if there are certain issues they are dealing with.

Activities in the past year

• Webinar on AI, December 2023
• Conference in Copenhagen in April 2024, 350 participants
• Evaluation meeting in Aberdeen. Met communication colleagues from the University of Aberdeen (financial problems, student recruitment after Brexit, SoMe). Visited The National Decommissioning Centre (met the Communications Officer and got a tour of the premises and tried facilities)

Activity goals for 2024 – 2025

• Planning Malmö conference 10-12 June 2026
• Webinar in December
• 5 Online meetings
• Group meeting in Malmö April 2025
• Group meeting in Oslo September 2025