On the 1st November 2017, Orfeus Publishing launches ‘Slottet - Familien - Kunsten’ (‘The Palace - The Family - The Art) - a biography of Marianne Andresen, written by Nanna Segelcke. Marianne has been one of UWC Red Cross Nordic’s staunchest supporters over the past 25 years. In tandem with the book launch, there will be an exhibition of Marianne’s art work, '70 Years as an Artist', running in central [...]

Early on Sunday 8th October, a group of 9 RCNers headed to the remote island of Gåsvær, Solund, in quest of peace. The aim was to thoroughly disconnect from the outside world (no mobiles or internet!) and find ways to engage with the concept of peace in terms of mind, body, communication and environment. The focus for the 4 day stay was a series of Red Cross [...]

From Friday to Sunday our College joined in with the national campaign to support the work of UNICEF, through TV Aksjonen. On Friday we had a special day focused on education and the work of UNICEF. Guest speakers Arne Olsen and Milad Dean set the tone in the auditorium with perspectives on how education is being affected when conflict escalates to crisis. Milad gave a personal story about his [...]

Stop Human Trafficking Project Week was dedicated to active Human Rights campaigning. We started by studying cases of Human Rights violations in the countries of the participants: Ecuador, Bangladesh, Georgia, Western Sahara, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Niger, Russia, Armenia and Iceland. There were many personal stories and much engaging debate, often finishing with "...but what we can do to stop these violations? This was not a rhetorical question. We [...]

Fri-vanns-liv means something like, 'living free in open water' - in other words diving in the sea by holding breath (apnea). For this project there were seven of us - six students: Chisato, Pei-Yu, Fabiana, Vicky, Leon, Steinar; and teacher Jelena. Part of the project was that the students were in charge of organising the daily schedule and meals - tasks that they took on with enthusiasm! [...]

UWC Red Cross Nordic was invited to send two representatives - Larry Lamont as Rektor and Arne Osland as Director of Development - to the Norwegian Red Cross' Landsmøtet (annual general assembly) 2017 in Haugesund (the 40th anniversary of this event). Alongside representation from all the Red Cross districts in Norway, the Norwegian Red Cross had also extended an invitation to the Presidents and other representatives of [...]