UWC Meetings in Canada
Last week, the annual UWC Heads, International Council and Boards meetings were held at Victoria and Pearson College on Vancouver Island. Many interesting discussions were held during the conference - from distinctiveness and quality to alumni impact, from admissions to post 2015 planning. UWC Red Cross Nordic was represented by its members of the UWC [...]
Global Concerns
Global Concern Days at the College use invited guest speakers, workshops and student-developed projects to broaden and deepen the understanding of participants about a particular issue. On October 27th, we had the Humanitarian Global Concern. With two months of planning by the organizing team of the students, supervised by the staff, the day focused on [...]
Disruptive Innovation
On the 22nd of October, five students from RCN, participated in an online panel discussion with students from twelve different UWCs. The debate was facilitated by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Disruptive Innovation Festival, which aims to bring together thought-leaders, entrepreneurs, businesses, makers, learners and doers to catalyse system-level change for a future economy. The overarching [...]
Stop the Violence
On Wednesday we were visited by 48 ninth-grade students from three different schools in Svelgen and Bremanger, a district two hours north of the College. The visit came about through our cooperation with the Sogn og Fjordane Red Cross, who organize events and activities for people to highlight the effects of violence and teach how [...]
UWC Dilijan
The students and staff at UWC Red Cross would like to express our delight that UWC Dilijan in Armenia is holding its inauguration today, Saturday 11th October 2014. Tom Gresvig (one of the founding team of UWC RCN), Stig Moltumyr (Director of Finance at UWC RCN) and Pål Brynsrud (UWC RCN Council) shall be attending [...]
Nobel Peace Prize Winners
On Friday 10th October at 11am, the Nobel Institute will announce the 2014 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has received nominations for 278 candidates (the highest number of nomination in the history of the prize) including nominations for 47 organisations. The Nobel Peace prize aims to reward a person, or organisation, [...]