Five UWC Red Cross Nordic students - Akari (Japan), Henrik (Norway), Jinho (East Timor), Jorge (Mexico), Mikkeline (Denmark) - and one member of staff (Larry, our Rektor) attended the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in the City Hall in Oslo on Sunday 10th December. The Nobel Peace Prize 2017 was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). The organization received the award for its work to [...]

Our University Counsellors, Mark and Hildegunn, continue to do a wonderful job to introduce our students to different pathways beyond UWC Red Cross Nordic. Throughout this term, they have hosted many counsellors on campus from universities in partnership with the Davis United World College Scholars’ Programme. They also work hard to promote to RCN students other universities across the world - and they hosted a representative on [...]

A world with stable power balance, where nuclear weapons are not involved? A diverse group of students from UWC Red Cross Nordic in Flekke has been invited to attend the Nobel Peace Award in Oslo on December 10th. Henrik (Norway), Akari (Japan), Jinho (East Timor), Jorge (Mexico) and Mikkeline (Denmark) are the lucky ones who will attend the ceremony, meet survivors of the Second World War bombings of Japan [...]

Finland can be seen as a bit of an anomaly in Fennoscandia. Whereas pronunciation constitutes the primary obstacle to mutual comprehension between the Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians, Finnish belongs to an entirely different (Uralic) language group, and serves as a sort of secret language when traveling across the Nordic region. Sweden, Denmark, and Norway remain constitutional monarchies, whilst Finland is a parliamentary republic with local governments in [...]

Each year, RCN is asked to put forward four second-year nominations for the Davis-Mahindra International Scholarship. In essence, this is recognition of an outstanding contribution throughout the RCN programme and something for the CV as RCN receives an annual cheque for investment from the Davis Foundation. The following students have been nominated in the past five years: 2012-3: Christine (Norway) and Tabish (Afghanistan) 2013-4: Nkanye (Zimbabwe) and [...]

Signing the Agreement The RCN Board met for a quarterly meeting at the SOS Children's Villages office in Oslo on Friday 23 November. The board members were given a presentation by Bente Lier, Secretary General of SOS CV. Since 1995, over 50 students from SOS Children's Villages across the world have studied at RCN - and been supported by the college and Vibeke L’Orsa Mortensen. [...]