Nordic Social Policy and Global Sustainable Development

The Nordic Social Policy and Global Sustainable Development programme (NORPOL) offers a critical and interdisciplinary approach to understanding contemporary welfare systems and social sustainability. With a strong foundation in comparative social policy, you will learn how global challenges – like climate change, new and increasing social inequalities, migration, digitalization and demographic shifts – intersect with the design and implementation of social policy. You will gain the analytical tools to understand and shape social policy – with sustainability, equity, and human wellbeing at the core. You will explore: social policy challenges in a Nordic and international comparative perspective how Nordic societies have responded to past crises and ongoing social and environmental changes strategies for assessing the sustainability and long-term impacts of welfare policies different theoretical and critical approaches to understanding the concept of sustainability in social policy The programme emphasizes critical thinking, policy analysis, and the ability to develop socially sustainable solutions for the future. Programme description (student.oslomet.no).