Miljøfyrtårn or Eco-lighthouse is Norway’s most widely used environmental certification scheme It is an EU-recognised system, like EMAS and ISO 14001. With Eco-lighthouse we work to create more environmentally friendly operations, sustainability education, and a safer work environment beyond our legal requirements. In 2021 we can look back at being certified for 10 years through Eco-Lighthouse and we just got successfully audited and recertified for the next 3 years in the frameworks of the constantly revised and tightened requirements.

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  • Alumni

Alumni Reunion

August 13th, 2015|

Over the past weekend, we have hosted the biennial alumni reunion on campus – and it was an absolute pleasure and privilege to welcome this generation of alumni (the graduates of 2004 and 2005) and [...]

  • Shelby Davis

UWC IMPACT Programme

August 12th, 2015|

UWC International yesterday announced a USD $15,000,000 funding boost through a gift by American philanthropist, Shelby M.C. Davis. Mr Davis’ gift acknowledges the continuing appeal of UWCs’ internationally recognised education model, which has deliberate diversity [...]

  • Larry and Poppy watching the assembled flotilla

Jakob Sande

August 9th, 2015|

The annual event, Kobbeskjerskvelden, in celebration of our local poet Jakob Sande, was hosted at Haugland on Friday. This tradition starts with a convoy of boats leaving for a singalong outside his old cabin near [...]