It initiated projects with the goal of gender equality, and coordinated and carried out investigations, studies, surveys, reports and opinions.
The co-operation programme was to further develop the information function, administer a Nordic funding scheme for gender equality and serve as project secretariat.
Nordic Information on Gender, NIKK, was established in late 2012 and the programme's assignment expires at the end of 2015.
[1] Kjersti Nipen have speculated about the decision to restructure NIKK, and its relation to the public debate that followed the seven-part television documentary series Hjernevask ('Brainwash'), by the comedian and documentarian Harald Eia, which aired in spring 2010 on the Norwegian broadcasting service NRK.
[2][3] The Norwegian Parliament, responding to a direct question from Tord Lien of the rightist Progress Party, addressed these television programmes.
The most recent projects are: A large NIKK study on prostitution for the Nordic ministers of gender equality was presented in October 2008.