Goalball is a Paralympic sport in which the blind can play with the sighted - as the sighted participants are blindfolded. We learned about Goalball from our long-term partners and friends at the Laski Institute – a school for the blind and visually impaired in Poland. We have had many exchanges with this partner school, and Goalball has been part of all of them! We continue playing at [...]

Congratulations to Nikita Klimenko (UWC RCN first year – Belarus) for winning the Physics Olympiad 2016 in Norway. Nikita and Angela Xiong (UWC RCN first year - China) and fourteen other finalists were invited to participate in the final round of the Norwegian Physics Olympiad at the University of Oslo in early April.  992 students from 105 schools across Norway took part in this year’s competition – [...]

First-year students Johanne Hansen (Norway) and Sara-Estelle Gößwein (Germany) recently travelled to Riga in Latvia, to take part in a Model European Parliament. This is their report. The national library where the sessions took place Forming friendships, meeting one of our incoming Norwegian First Years, discussing current political issues, debating, learning about pragmatic compromise - and all that in a foreign country in the context of MEP–Model European Parliament. After [...]

The topic for this term’s Global Concern was migration, a particularly pertinent focus given the reality of our world today. The events of the day were largely organized by students and consisted of informative, engaging workshops and a plenary session on International Humanitarian Law, given by Espen Persønn Flagstad, Legal Advisor to the Red Cross on IHL. Students and teachers from Nordahl Grieg VG joined us for [...]

It is with deep sadness that we inform our alumni and staff community that Marín Rós Tumadóttir, our 2001 RCNUWC graduate from Iceland, has passed away in Reykjavik. Expressions of condolences to Marín's parents, Allyson McDonald and Tumi Tómasson, can be sent to their address - Njörvasund 2, 104 Reykjavik, Iceland. Memorial service for friends and family of Marín Rós On Friday April 8th from 3pm-5pm we will come [...]

On March 12th, UWC Red Cross Nordic hosted its first TEDx event and the first one in Sogn og Fjordane. The organizing committee involved 11 students, making it the first TEDx event to be organized by youth in Norway. The theme was “One Step Forward”. A total of 14 speakers (8 guests and 6 from the campus) shared a variety of stories and ideas involving areas such [...]