Good luck to the finalists in the Norwegian Contest for Young Scientists! Four of the twenty-0ne finalists invited to Oslo this weekend are from UWC RCN. They were selected from a pool of 141 projects entered. This is an annual event hosted by the Norwegian Research Council. Our finalists are: Yash on The Doppler Effect in Circular Motion on an Angled Plane; Silvia on The Impact of International Disputes on [...]

Stopp Valden was instigated in 1995 after 17 year old Andreas Stavseth was shot in the street in Oslo, and the ensuing programme has the aim to stop violence and bullying in all its forms. On Thursday 4th April, members of our Red Cross Youth Group were invited to speak at Dale VGS as part of their Safe Russetid programme. We represented Fjaler Red Cross in talking [...]

Here is this year's Annual Report, published in advance of the annual Council Meeting, Friday 27th April 2018. Themes and articles are submitted by members of the management teams and the Chairs of the RCN Standing Committees to the the editorial team of Arne (Director of Development), Edmund (Communications Team Leader) and Larry (Rektor). The report also includes our financial statements of 2017, funding and results. The [...]

Following consultation with RCN, Carlos Escobar invited our new Rektor, Guðmundur (currently working at Brighton College Al Ain), to an alumni gathering at New York University Abu Dhabi last week. In the picture, from left to right, are: 1. Nghiem Huynh (RCN '12 - '14) - Vietnam; 2. Mariana Arrieta (RCN '14 - '16) -  Venezuela; 3. Emil Goldsmith Olesen (RCN '12 - '14) - Denmark; 4. Bassel Abifaraj (RCN '95 [...]

Nordahl Grieg vgs is one of the schools in Norway we have joined together with as part of the Ashoka Changemaker School network. As part of this co-operation, one of our Spanish classes has established a language immersion exchange. The experience started last February with three of our Spanish-speaking students and teacher travelling to Bergen hosted by their students Maria, Benjamin, and Amanda (centre of picture). This [...]

Inga Bostad visited us today here at UWC Red Cross Nordic. Inga is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo and Professor at Oslo School of Architecture and Design. She was appointed director for the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law from 2014-2017 and is, from 2018, at the Department of Education at the Faculty of Educational Sciences. She is also Chair [...]