The Baltic region

Fafo's work in the Baltic countries goes back to 1989, when the first Living Conditions Survey was initiated in Lithuania, making Fafo the first Western institution to conduct a large scale social survey in one of the countries of the former Eastern Bloc, at a time when the Soviet state still existed. This survey was followed up by the 1994 NORBALT living conditions surveys in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and by NORBALT II, in 1999. The living conditions surveys have led to a broad array of other projects, on poverty and social security, labour migration etc. Fafo has cooperated with a number of research and public institutions in the region, and is taking part in an extensive European research network.

Projects

• The Baltic region - The NORBALT Project
• Social Policy and Social Exclusion in the Baltic Countries

Reports from other projects

• Jan Dietz, Børge Klemmensen, Poul Kragh and Aadne Aasland (eds.) Baltic-Nordic Rendezvous - The Politics of Environmental Cooperation (1996)
• Erik Hansen (ed.) Cooperation in the Baltic Sea Region, the Barents Region and the Black Sea Region - A documentation report (1997)
• Anette Brunovskis and Trygve Ugland
  Alcohol Consumption in the Baltic States. Developments from 1994 to 1999. (2003)

Contact persons

Guri Tyldum

Anette Brunovskis