Call for Contributions: Alrek Health Days 2025!

Help us explore how we can accelerate the journey from knowledge to action by submitting your ideas for sessions that spark reflection, discussion, and change.

Join us in creating a shorter path from knowledge to action.

Alrek Health Days is organized by the Faglig forum in Alrek and invites all professional environments associated with the cluster’s partners and collaborators to submit proposals for symposia, workshops, panel discussions, and other smaller events that can be included in the program! The submission form is coming soon, but start brainstorming with your colleagues now!

Submit your contribution

Submit your contribution for Alrek Health Days 2025 here. The deadline is May 11 at 23:59.

Theme of the Year: Making Knowledge Useful

In a time where research and insight must rapidly translate into better services, this year’s theme asks:

• Does new knowledge reach decision-makers, healthcare professionals, and the public?
• Does it influence policies, procedures, and clinical guidelines – and are these followed?
• Can evidence-based practices realistically be implemented in daily services – and are they affordable?
• Are people actually following public health advice, like nutrition guidelines or anti-substance campaigns?
• When is the knowledge base “good enough” to move forward with implementation?

This year, we invite you to explore these questions and share your perspectives, experiences, and innovative approaches to turning knowledge into action.

What Are We Looking For?

We encourage submissions that focus on:

• Implementation research in health and care services
• Strategies for making knowledge usable in practice and society
• Competence development and education as tools for knowledge use
• Visualization and measurement of implementation outcomes
• Collaboration and new methods to bridge the gap between research and action
• Reflections on implementation in your field: What works? What’s challenging?
• Measures and tools that support successful implementation in real-world settings

Whether you’re presenting a project (planned, ongoing, or completed) or facilitating a dialogue about shared challenges, we welcome your voice.

This Year’s New Format

Alrek Health Days 2025 will span a full week, with events hosted across multiple venues and partners within the Alrek health cluster. We’re looking for short-format events (45–90 minutes) designed to be accessible, engaging, and thought-provoking.

Events can be organized as:

• Presentations and lectures
• Dialogues/conversations
• Panel debates
• Thematic workshops
• … or other exciting formats

We welcome a variety of approaches, whether you present a planned, ongoing, or completed project, invite to an open discussion about challenges, or challenge the research environment with practical cases from clinical practice or user groups.

Criteria for Events:

• Interdisciplinary collaboration: It is a strength if several professional environments are behind the session
• Target audience: The events should be adapted to a broad audience from the breadth of the health cluster, including clinicians, users, students, and researchers. It can also be for a specific target group but should be open to all.
• Responsibility: One responsible contact person must be provided for the implementation of the event.
• Be in line witht the topic as described above

The application must include:

• Title of the event
• Type of event: e.g., presentation, dialogue, panel debate, workshop
• Participants: Who is involved?
• Time frame: Desired duration (45-90 minutes) and at least 3 suggested time slots during the week
• Abstract: (max 200 words) describing the topic and adapted format
• Name and contact information for the responsible contact person
• Brief description of room and equipment requirements, including preferred location. The program committee will ensure practical arrangements.