UWC Meetings in Canada
Last week, the annual UWC Heads, International Council and Boards meetings were held at Victoria and Pearson College on Vancouver Island. Many interesting discussions were held during the conference - from distinctiveness and quality to [...]
Global Concerns
Global Concern Days at the College use invited guest speakers, workshops and student-developed projects to broaden and deepen the understanding of participants about a particular issue. On October 27th, we had the Humanitarian Global Concern. [...]
Disruptive Innovation
On the 22nd of October, five students from RCN, participated in an online panel discussion with students from twelve different UWCs. The debate was facilitated by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's Disruptive Innovation Festival, which aims [...]
Stop the Violence
On Wednesday we were visited by 48 ninth-grade students from three different schools in Svelgen and Bremanger, a district two hours north of the College. The visit came about through our cooperation with the Sogn [...]
UWC Dilijan
The students and staff at UWC Red Cross would like to express our delight that UWC Dilijan in Armenia is holding its inauguration today, Saturday 11th October 2014. Tom Gresvig (one of the founding team [...]
Nobel Peace Prize Winners
On Friday 10th October at 11am, the Nobel Institute will announce the 2014 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has received nominations for 278 candidates (the highest number of nomination in the [...]
Nordic Ambassadors
On Monday 6th October 2014, General Secretary Espen Stedje at "Foreningen Norden", together with Olemic Thommesen, in his role as Chair, hosted a reception in Oslo as a prelude to the 20th anniversary of our [...]
Dr. Ronald Sturm
Dr. Ronald Sturm (AC Alumnus), Head of the Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Unit of the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs of Austria, kindly offered to come to UWC RCN for the second year in a [...]
Thor Heyerdahl Week
The 29th September marked the beginning of UWC Red Cross Nordic’s Thor Heyerdahl Week – our College’s contribution to celebrations planned across Norway for the centenary of Thor Heyerdahl’s birth on Monday October 6th. Thor Heyerdahl - [...]
Phil and Amy Geier
It was a pleasure and privilege to welcome Amy and Phil Geier this week to UWC Red Cross Nordic. Fresh from the inauguration ceremony at UWC Robert Bosch College, Amy and Phil arrived on campus on [...]