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 hard for many years to make a dream come true.  Ivar quoted the anthropologist Margaret Mead: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it [...]

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 an inspiring lecture of Bjørn K Haugland, Executive Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer in DNV GL Group, on global sustainability from a business perspective, which also was open for the college [...]

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 it comes to climate change and how our local decisions have global impacts. The project, Flekke GLOCAL CHALLENGE, will comprise two workshops and a 30-day online challenge for 30 people supported and [...]

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 persons - young and old - from all sectors and all continents a few months later. We spent four days on a veteran ship - undisturbed - with no wifi or cellular [...]

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 back on campus for Student Introduction Week in mid August - second years introduce first years to projects to which they contribute across the world. This is a particularly special year as [...]

In the past year we have had lots of exciting, new initiatives for fundraising for College programmes, from an art exhibition with proceeds of sales going to the RCN scholarship fund to a Garage sale coordinated by leaving staff. Below are two examples of some donations that have recently been received: Two alumni (Kasia from Poland and Ezequiel from Argentina - RCN 2007-2009) very generously decided to [...]