Our Red Cross Partnership
As part of our Jubilee celebrations and following on from the official opening of the Henry Dunant Building by HM Queen Sonja, we put together a special programme on the morning of Tuesday 22nd September which focused on UWC RCN’s partnership with the Norwegian Red Cross and the Rehabilitation Centre. The session was launched with a superb lecture on the migrant crisis in Europe and the role [...]
‘Every time I come here it is even better’
Our Jubilee event on Monday 21st September marked the ninth time in 20 years that her Majesty Queen Sonja has visited our College: a definite highlight in the two year stay for each student, and an honour for us as an institution. Her strong involvement is a living reminder of the value of our work to make education a uniting force. It was all meticulously planned in advance [...]
HM Queen Sonja at RCN
The celebrations of our 20th anniversary were crowned with Her Majesty Queen Sonja's visit on a day of beautiful early autumn sunshine. The Queen took her time as she moved around the College talking and listening to many students on her route. The National News on NRK focused on her meeting with Melvin Cornejo Gomez (El Salvador) and his way of expressing aspirations for peace. After a breathtaking student [...]
Jubilee / UWC Day
We are one day away from the main Jubilee event at UWC Red Cross Nordic - an opportunity to celebrate our 20th anniversary in tandem with the 150th anniversary of the Norwegian Red Cross - alongside UWC Day and the International Day of Peace as observed across the world. Her Majesty Queen Sonja will be arriving in the Royal Yacht for the event. In this weekend's edition of Bergens Tidende [...]
Local Elections
It has been an exciting week with local Norwegian elections gripping the campus. Robin Stokke, Norwegian first year, reports: We started by announcing the whole project during an assembly on Monday. All of the first years found out which party they had been placed in, and were encouraged to start researching their party and democratically electing a leader. On Thursday Jacob and I had a short presentation [...]
Day of the mushroom
Last weekend people all over Norway marked the Days of Mushrooms by picking and identifying them. Some of our students and staff joined in with the help of Norges Sopp-og Nytteverksforbund. On Sunday fifty of us took the Posteveitrimmen, the traditional walk of the local families - and found many types of mushrooms. After the hike, experts were waiting on campus with a display of local mushrooms and identified the ones [...]