Nordic FP10 position paper

A coordinated Nordic position paper on women’s health in FP10, co-signed by the five national research councils with NordForsk and the NMC as convening partners, is what gets the Nordic voice into the Brussels conversation in time. FP10’s architecture is being decided across 2026 and 2027. Without a Nordic written position landing during that window, the final shape of FP10 will not include women’s health as a mission or partnership, and the next decade of European funding will route through the gender dimension crosscut alone.

A short Nordic position paper drafted between May and September 2026, timed to the Irish Presidency window, would translate the Copenhagen Call to Action into European architecture. The value is that the Nordics speak to FP10 as one voice during the formation phase rather than as five separate signatories during implementation. Universities Norway is positioned to lead the drafting, NordForsk to convene, and the NMC to endorse politically.