This report summarizes the first part of the HEX-NA project and focuses on exploring different levels and types of policy on countering violent extremism (CVE) in the Nordic countries (Iceland excluded). HEX-NA is the abbreviation for Handling Extremism-Nordic Approaches, a three-year research project (2018-2021) funded by Nordforsk under the call for “The underpinnings of Nordic Societal Security” 1. The HEX-NA research team is coordinated from Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) and the University of Oslo and consists of researchers from different disciplines affiliated with Aarhus University in Denmark, Turku University in Finland, Center for Resarch on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo and the Police University College, and the Segerstedt Institute at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.The project studies different aspects (policy, perceptions and practices) of multiagency approaches to handling violent extremism. Such collaborative work between agencies was (at the time of the project start) considered to be most extensively used in Denmark (SSP) and Norway (SLT), while somewhat less so in Finland (Ankkuri) and limited in Sweden (SSP [f]). Whether and how the model should be implemented more extensively and/or reformed to fit the CVE context is a much-debated topic, in Sweden in particular. This present study