The Nordic Science and Innovation team is based in Stockholm and Copenhagen and covers the Nordic Baltic region.  It is part of a network of officers sponsored by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Department for Business Innovation & Skills working on behalf of the UK Government and the UK science community.  The Nordic Science team seeks to build and sustain partnerships and collaborations between scientists in the UK and those in our region, multilaterally with Europe, and globally.

The strategic objectives of the science and innovation network:

Scientific Collaboration 

Facilitating scientific collaboration between UK universities and research laboratories and the world's best public and private-sector counterparts abroad, and working to increase access to foreign funding for UK researchers.

Innovation

Strengthening the UK's innovation capacity through attracting R&D intensive international investment, helping UK companies to access and benchmark overseas technologies, and facilitating R&D partnerships and technology transfer.

Influence

Using science and innovation to influence Governments and other overseas players across the range of the UK's international policy priorities (e.g. climate change, energy security, poverty, infectious diseases, counter-terrorism).

Policy-making

Helping UK and overseas policy-makers develop best practice in science and innovation policy, and developing international frameworks in breakthrough technologies such as stem cell research.