GC stands for Global Concerns, it is a special day every term when a student-organized event takes place about a global issue. On the 18th March, it was about the environment. Students organized various workshops and lectures around the topics of Land, Oceans, and Air from cooking with locally picked seaweed, planting herbs, and making art, to watching documentaries and running discussions about them. Please [...]

Ridderuka means The Week of the Knight. Is the world's biggest universally accessible annual winter sports event for youth and adults in Beitostølen, Norway. The event is known for removing barriers for athletes and many people with visual or mobility challenges excel in winter sports there. RCN students participate every year as volunteers and we have some athletes in the competitions too. Our students this [...]

Between 7 and 13 March, we had the privilege to host the John Hick Centenary Conference 2022. This was an event organized by us and it is the result of well over a year of planning. Our main ambition with the event was to celebrate the memory and legacy of John Hick and, by doing this, create opportunities for interreligious and intercultural dialogue. Therefore, the [...]

«What do we want? Peace in Ukraine. When do we want it? Now!» When the first UWC college was established in Wales in 1962, it was as a response to the political conflict of the cold war with the vision to offer an educational experience based on shared learning, collaboration and understanding so that the students would act as champions of peace. This year the UWC [...]

UWC Red Cross Nordic will celebrate the 100th birthday of the philosopher and theologian John Hick, by organising a week of activities between 7th and 11th March 2022, centered on Hick’s ideas, the plurality of religions, and religious pluralism. We believe it to be a particularly important task for multicultural environments to create meeting points for interreligious dialogue and understanding. Since John Hick was known [...]

UWC has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize! The nomination was made by Alfred Bjørlo, member of the Norwegian parliament for the Liberal Party from the region of Sogn and Fjordane (where UWC Red Cross Nordic is located): – Enabling youth from all over the world to meet, live and get an education together, is one of the most important things we can do [...]