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It is with great pleasure, on the day of our Jubilee (celebrating 20 years since the opening of UWC Red Cross Nordic), that the College can announce that the Leif Høegh Foundation (Leif Høegh Stiftelsen) will make a gift of NOK 1 million to help launch the RCN Jubilee Fund. This donation will go towards [...]

As part of our Jubilee celebrations and following on from the official opening of the Henry Dunant Building by HM Queen Sonja, we put together a special programme on the morning of Tuesday 22nd September which focused on UWC RCN’s partnership with the Norwegian Red Cross and the Rehabilitation Centre. The session was launched with [...]

Our Jubilee event on Monday 21st September marked the ninth time in 20 years that her Majesty Queen Sonja has visited our College: a definite highlight in the two year stay for each student, and an honour for us as an institution. Her strong involvement is a living reminder of the value of our work to [...]

The celebrations of our 20th anniversary were crowned with Her Majesty Queen Sonja's visit on a day of beautiful early autumn sunshine. The Queen took her time as she moved around the College talking and listening to many students on her route. The National News on NRK focused on her meeting with Melvin Cornejo Gomez (El Salvador) and his [...]

We are one day away from the main Jubilee event at UWC Red Cross Nordic - an opportunity to celebrate our 20th anniversary in tandem with the 150th anniversary of the Norwegian Red Cross - alongside UWC Day and the International Day of Peace as observed across the world. Her Majesty Queen Sonja will be arriving in the [...]

It has been an exciting week with local Norwegian elections gripping the campus. Robin Stokke, Norwegian first year, reports: We started by announcing the whole project during an assembly on Monday. All of the first years found out which party they had been placed in, and were encouraged to start researching their party and democratically [...]