Ashoka Changemakers
Ashoka Changemakers is a global organizations that builds and cultivates a community of change leaders. Members collaborate to transform institutions and cultures worldwide for the good of society. UWC RCN was selected last year as [...]
Introducing the Glocal Challenge
Fifteen of our students and educators have started a journey of change, with the help of Karen O`Brien and her team at cCHANGE. To start of it all, Karen gave our yearly Environmental Thor Heyerdahl [...]
Glacier Seminar – Natur og Ungdom
As members of the Natur og Ungdom (Nature and Youth) organization we have the amazing opportunity to join multiple seminars and events every year. This seminar was about glaciers as climate indicators. Ironically, due to [...]
UWC Day – Inspire Change
A day to celebrate on and off campus. We started the day listening to Board member Ivar Lund-Mathiesen on how the College came to be founded - a story of a few passionate people working [...]
Guðmundur Hegner Jónsson – Rektor
Guðmundur and Katarina "This place is so full of life, even before we have started the term." Katarina has arrived here to work together with Guðmundur, who is starting his new position [...]
SDGs with Bergen Næringsråd
25 trainees from Bergens Næringsråd (Bergen Chamber of Business), had their training at UWC Red Cross Nordic during this weekend. The focus of the programme was the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The programme included [...]
Flekke Glocal Challenge
UWC Red Cross Nordic in collaboration with cCHANGE and Sogn og Fjordane Fylkeskommune is pleased to invite teachers and students from Sogn og Fjordane to challenge themselves together to learn about our personal responsibility when [...]
Future Talks – In the Arctic
There are trips, and then there are the trips that change you. I found out the application at our UWCRCN homepage last term. I did not expected to be on the Arctic with 100 brilliant [...]
Junette Maxis (RCN ’05-’07)
Clinton Global Initiative Stay Hungry In 2011, I was attending the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) event when the former US president Bill Clinton said to me, “Stay hungry”. I must admit, [...]
Nelson Mandela International Day
Today (18th July 2018) is Nelson Mandela International Day across the world, celebrated each year on his birthday. Our students celebrate 'Mandela 67' (in honour of his 67 years of commitment to social justice) when [...]