As part of Denmark's Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Aalborg University hosts a conference on Human Values and Grand Challenges on December 1-2, 2025 in Copenhagen. The conference is organised in collaboration with University of Southern Denmark and Copenhagen Business School and supported by the European Commission.

The conference will address the need of a stronger focus on the role of human values and SSAH research and innovation in addressing grand challenges that Europe and the world is facing and how this can further EU’s agenda for a social, green and digital transition.  

The goal of the conference is to strengthen SSAH’s essential role in shaping challenge-oriented transdisciplinary research. What would this research look like, how could it have societal impact, and how could European research and innovation programmes support human-centric knowledge creation?