Meeting Place for Diversity
The present and coming generations will have to tackle serious issues when it comes to climate changes and people being forced to leave their homes. One generation of our students has just graduated, and many [...]
Graduation Ceremony 2016
Graduation took place on Saturday 21st May at UWC Red Cross Nordic. It was a pleasure to welcome so many families, host families from our local community and other guests on Friday evening for dinner in the [...]
Liusiadh Brown (Intern)
Liusaidh, a young, blue-haired teaching intern from Scotland, arrived at RCN in late July, 2015. She didn’t know much about the College and had no experience of teaching. She didn’t have much confidence, and the [...]
Sarina Tahitu (Intern)
We were happy to welcome Sarina Tahitu to the College as a teaching intern in April. She came to us as a student teacher from the World Teachers Training Programme at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. Before [...]
Constitution Lecture 2016
It was a pleasure to welcome Steinar Bryn (senior adviser at the Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue) to UWC RCN today. Steinar delivered the fourth UWC RCN Annual Constitution Lecture (based on the College’s [...]
Street Mediation Instructors’ Course
Marlene Lauridsen Following on from a meeting with the Norwegian Red Cross in Oslo, our Red Cross Board Rep (Liv Ronglan) kindly agreed to coordinate a trainer to visit the College to run [...]
Education as Key to Transformation
On Monday we hosted the Student Climate Summit, with 60 participants from the colleges of Dale, Firda, Mo & Øyrane and Sogndal. The focus was on how to meet climate change on an individual and group [...]
Til Topps – Jarstadheia
Lydia, Elodie and Azlin In 2015, we decided to replace the usual timetable on May Day with a walk to the top of our local mountain, Jarstadheia. It was a very special occasion [...]
Sara Löwgren (’13 – ’15)
I am already starting to see how the UWC has changed me although I only graduated from UWC Red Cross Nordic a year ago. Two years in that unique little world made from multiculturalism and idealistic inspiration, [...]
New Board and Council Members
We are delighted to announce the election of the following individuals to: UWC Red Cross Nordic’s Board: Jan Björkman is a social democratic politician from Sweden. He was Member of the Swedish Parliament from 1988 to 2010, representing the County [...]