A symposium will be held at the Nordic House in Reykjavik on December 5th to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Icelandic parliament's approval of a special budget for the National Gift project. This project was created to address the decline in vegetation and soil erosion that Iceland has experienced since human settlement.

Guðrún Dóra Clarke has been appointed as Chief Medical Executive at the Healthcare Institution of North Iceland (HSN). It is planned that Guðrún Dóra will start working soon.

Meðvera – an Electronic Communication Portal – Has Been Implemented at Akureyri Hospital (SAk) to Improve the Quality of Life and Health of Patients Undergoing Cancer Treatment.

New data released earlier this week by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) suggest that European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries are not on track to meet their goal of reducing antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use.

The Healthcare Institution of North Iceland (HSN), Dalvíkurbyggð and Dalbær Nursing Home in Dalvík are participating in the development project “Good to Grow Older”, which was signed last Thursday in Dalvík.

The National Electoral Board has recast its instructions on the credentials of the Ombudsman with the amendment providing that information on the name of the candidate represented by the Ombudsman shall appear only on the reverse of the document.

A Nordic webinar focused on patient safety will take place on Monday, December 16, from 13:00-14:30. The webinar will be conducted in English.

The National Archives’ Research Day was celebrated on 14 November, when data bases in historical research and dissemination were discussed. Over 70 guests attended the conference and panel discussions.

The National Archives has issued a recommendation to the parties that are required to deliver documents to stop printing on paper on the data that originate in electronic form. The reason for this is changes made to Article 15 of the Act on Public Archives No. 77/2014 last summer, which addresses the delivery of documents and the right to information.

A substantial quantity of birch seeds were gathered in various regions of Iceland during the autumn season as part of Land and Forest Iceland's campaign to collect and sow birch seeds. This initiative provided an opportunity for school groups to engage in outdoor learning experiences. Recently, a group of students from Sunnulækjarskóli in Selfoss visited the Land and Forest Iceland Selfoss office to deliver the birch seeds they had diligently collected in the local area throughout the autumn.