Creating new models for society
Nordic Bildung Publications
The Future Economy – paper planned for fall 2018
Our economic systems and models as we know them are products of and tools for industrialized economies with national borders.The digital economy is fundamentally different and we are going to explore in what ways.Updated June 13, 2018: Publication date moved to fall...
Welcome to Nordic Bildung
We have not had time to produce any publications yet but great ideas are in the pipeline. So, for now, welcome to our new website.
News & Events
Nordic Bildung at Folkemødet
Our popular branch in Denmark, Fremvirke, will have its own program at Folkemødet / The People's Political Festival Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings: The Fremvirke Summer Variety Show; future studies, satirical songs, quizzes, and interviews.It will be in...
Kick-off for Swedish Fremvirke
We need a sister organization in Sweden that matches Danish Fremvirke, and therefore it was time for me, who is based in Stockholm, to collect a group of brilliant minds from various fields for dinner and big thoughts. The common denominator is the passionate interest...
New video
This short video explains very well some of our thinking behind starting Nordic Bildung. Tomas Björkman is one of our founders and the video is not about Nordic Bildung as such, it is about his book Världen vi skapar - från Gud til marknaden / The World We Create:...
Nordic Bildung & Fremvirke Launch
March 15, three events launched Nordic Bildung and Fremvirke: A morning meeting with folk-bilders / adult educators and people from some of the associations working for Nordic collaboration and integration. An afternoon meeting for Danes with more than one national...
Lessons learned at Testrup
We went to Testrup Folk High School to test our content and education formats with 30 philosophy students for a week. The students were around age 18-20 and a bit older, some came straight out of high-shcool, others had already studied at the university and took a gap...
Testing our ideas at Testrup Folk High School
Sunday February 25th we head out for Testrup Folk High School in the beautiful Danish countryside in order to test our content on their philosophy students. They have kindly given us a full week of their program in order to test our content and ideas. We are going to...
Nordic Bildung & Fremvirke – Awesome Evening Launch March 15
Ny tænketank, nye samfundsmodeller og ny folkeoplysning Norden er rig på både tænketanke, fremtidsforskning og folkeoplysning, men ingen har endnu kombineret de tre. Det gør vi. Nordic Bildung er en ny, nordisk tænketank, der vil udvikle modeller for fremtidens...
Multicultural Danishness – Research Project Launch March 15
Nyt co-creative oplysningsprojekt: Flerkulturel Danskhed - Hvad er det bedste ved Danmark? Er du dobbelt- eller flerkulturel dansker? Tænker du to- eller flersproget? Så er vi nysgerrige efter at finde ud af, hvad du betragter som mest dansk, det bedste ved Danmark,...
Connecting Meetings March 14 and 15
Hvad er folkeoplysning i det 21. århundrede? - og kan vi skabe en større nordisk synergi? For folkeoplysere og aktører i det nordiske samarbejde Norden er rig på både tænketanke, fremtidsforskning og folkeoplysning, men ingen har endnu kombineret de tre. Det gør vi....
Nordic Bildung is future studies, a think tank and Scandinavian folk-bildung combined.
Nordic Bildung is a non-profit, politically unaffiliated association. We face the rapid technological development, societal changes and ecological challenges insisting on human dignity and democracy, and work towards a flourishing, metamodern future, rich in meaning, purpose and culture.
It is our goal to work globally.
Nordic Bildung Blog
The future of work
It is not the automation that is the problem, it is our economic model in which increased productivity equals economic growth; it cannot handle quality of life and full occupation in jobs that cannot increase their productivity. There is plenty of work; it will be no...
The Best Transition Possible
What would you experience if you were able to live through everything we have experienced the past 2000 years? Go through all the different transitions, feel the pain and suffering, experience what happened afterwards. Immortal, yet able to feel and sense everything....