Dear Host Family / local supporter, As you know each year, the College puts together a Winter Break Programme for 25 students who are unable to go home due to financial reasons or political instability in their home countries. It is very important to us that we put together a programme which is stimulating and supportive - and compensates for the fact that they are unable to return to [...]

Members of the College Amnesty International group Today is World Human Rights Day 2015 – as part of RCN’s commitment to this special day in the annual calendar, some of our students are in Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize and last Sunday evening a group of students set up an Amnesty International stall on campus: Magnus við Streym (Faroe Islands) reports on the Amnesty [...]

We are delighted to announce a new partnership between UWC Red Cross Nordic and 100 LIVES and Near East Foundation. On Friday 27th November 2015 at the UWC National Committee Regional Middle East North Africa Conference, the 100 Lives Scholarship Programme was announced to the gathered National Committees and other members of the UWC community. UWC Maastricht, UWC Red Cross Nordic and UWC Robert Bosch colleges have [...]

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. The following students have been nominated in the past three years: 2012-3: Christine Blandhol (Norway) and Abdul Tabish (Afghanistan) 2013-4: Nkanye Gumpo (Zimbabwe) and Augusto Bravo Ballón (Peru) 2014-5  Elizabete Romanovska (Latvia), Jasmine [...]

The Board members of UWC RCN met in Stockholm on Tuesday 1st December for its quarterly meeting. Lars Leijonborg, the Swedish member of our Board, helped to prepare the programme of engagement and kindly coordinated a guided tour of the City Hall, followed by lunch and our main meeting. In the evening, we hosted a reception in central Stockholm as part of our ongoing engagement with supporters [...]

The eyes of the world are on Paris where the negotiations at the UN Climate Summit are aiming to cut emissions to stop global warming exceeding a +2°C level when compared to pre-industrial levels. Communities, NGOs, political parties all across the world joined forces and brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets to protest in favour of a strong deal that will see a swift transition from fossil fuels to renewable [...]