Events
Mind the Gap at NATO’s 2025 Public Forum
In continuation of our project’s core ambition to bridge the gap between academic research and security policy practice, Mind the Gap was represented at NATO’s 2025 Public Forum in The Hague.
Sten Rynning and Anne Ingemann Johansen participated in the Forum on 24 – 25 June 2025, which took place alongside the NATO Summit and brought together heads of state, policymakers, and experts to discuss the future of the Alliance. Their participation followed NATO’s selection of the University of Southern Denmark’s Center for War Studies as an official institutional partner.
By contributing academic insights to high-level policy discussions, Mind the Gap continues its work of engaging directly with the communities it seeks to understand—offering not just analysis from the outside, but active presence on the inside.
Read more about the NATO Public Forum here.
Exploring NATO policy: Visits to the Danish and Norwegian Ministries of Foreign Affairs
Sten Rynning and Anne Ingemann Johansen visited the Danish and Norwegian Ministries of Foreign Affairs to research current NATO policy development.
Project Team Workshop at the Club Prince Albert in Brussels, Belgium
Team Mind the Gap met up for fourth project workshop from 27-28 January 2025, which was generously hosted by Prof. Sven Biscop from Egmont – The Royal Institute for International Relations at the Club Prince Albert in Brussels, Belgium.
Project Team Workshop at the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway
The Mind the Gap project team met up for a third project workshop from 21-24 August 2024, which was hosted by Prof. Gunhild Hoogesen Gjørv at the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway.
Project Team Workshop at the Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen
The Mind the Gap research team met up for a second project workshop in Copenhagen from 4-5 December 2023 where we welcomed Anders Dramstad to the team. Anders, a talented and trained Norwegian historian, will collaborate with Prof. Rasmus Mariager on the historical inquiries into the gap.
Kick-Off Workshop at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
The Mind the Gap research team met up for a first kick-off workshop in Copenhagen from 10-11 August 2023 to engage in creative thinking on how we are to explore the gap in one of the most sensitive policy areas of all: National Security Policy.