The Winter Programme
One of our students has written this account of the College's Winter Programme. The experience I had of the Winter Programme was one of the best experiences in RCN. It is run for ‘travel support’ students who College cannot afford to send back home for the December break. I had a choice to go back [...]
2016 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony
5 students - Juan Pablo (Colombia), Pam (Colombia / Venezuela), Yael (Israel), Shweta (India) and Helen (Germany) - and one member of staff (Hilde from Norway) from UWC Red Cross Nordic attended the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in the city Hall in Oslo on Saturday 10th December. The Nobel Peace Prize 2016 was awarded [...]
RCN Board Meeting in Oslo
The Board members of UWC RCN met in Oslo on Friday 2nd December for its quarterly meeting at the offices of our partners, the Norwegian Red Cross. On the evening before, Marianne Andresen kindly hosted a dinner at her house, Smedbraaten, in Bygdøy to thank our Board members drawn from across the Nordic region and [...]
Vibeke L’Orsa Mortensen (1995 – 2016)
We would like to profile Vibeke in the last week of this term in our ‘People of RCN’ section of the UWC Red Cross Nordic website as this provides us with the opportunity to thank her for her wonderful support of the College since it was founded. For the past twenty one years, Vibeke has [...]
The World Water Summit
Four students from four countries, from three schools around Sogn og Fjordane, participated in the year's biggest event on water issues. The delegation was led by Judit Dudas , the sustainability leader of UWC RCN. Marta Pinzan (Italy, UWC RCN), Sara Overgard (Denmark, Sogn Jord-og Hagebruksskule), Yash Ramchandani (United Arab Emirates, UWC RCN) and Eirik Hovstad (Norway, [...]
Visiting Speaker – Einar Lunde
We were very pleased to welcome journalist and former TV news anchor Einar Lunde to the College on Wednesday where he spoke eloquently and passionately about his experiences in South Africa during the turbulent post-apartheid period. Deputy Rektor Alistair Robertson, himself a South African, introduced him to a full auditorium of students, staff and outside [...]