Desmond Tutu speaking at ISFiT 2009
Photo: ISFIT/Fotogjengen ved Studentersamfundet i TrondjemDesmond Tutu speaking at ISFiT 2009. Photo: ISFIT/Fotogjengen ved Studentersamfundet i Trondjem
News and events // 25/08/2010 //

ISFiT -The International Student Festival in Trondheim, one of the world’s largest student festivals, is being held in Norway in February 2011. The theme for this year’s festival is global health. The application deadline is 30 September.

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Photo: Norwegian Government
News and events // 25/08/2010 //

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will 13 September host a high-level conference on the international situation in the labour market, where millions of people are unemployed as a result of the global economic crisis.

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Photo: Kimm Saatvedt
News and events // 13/05/2010 //

Norway hosts a great variety of popular festivals during the summer months, extending across the entire music spectrum, from the more classically-based Bergen International Festival to the modern Øya Festival in Oslo.

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Størst i verden
Photo: Sway
News and events // 31/03/2010 //

The world’s largest wind turbine is to be built in Norway. Innovative technology will make the production of renewable energy far more efficient.

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A small jump for Anette Sagen, but a great leap forward for ski jumping.
Photo: Scanpix / Gorm Kallestad
News and events // 16/03/2010 //

The people of Norway chose Anette Sagen, Norway’s top woman ski jumper, to inaugurate the new Holmenkollen ski jump facility.

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Photo: Karim Kadim/AP/Scanpix
News and events // 19/05/2010 //

More than 60 countries agreed to concrete measures to address armed violence in Geneva on 12 May.

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News and events // 27/04/2010 //

Although there are those who have warned that increased activity and unresolved boundaries in the Arctic would raise tensions, developments in the region are bearing witness to just the opposite.

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Photo: WWF-Canada / Frank Parhizgar
News and events // 23/03/2010 //

At 8:30 pm 27 March 2010 Norway will plunge into darkness, joining in the world’s largest visual climate change campaign.

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Photo: Steven Holl Architects
News and events // 06/08/2010 //

“American Steven Holl’s latest project is a breath of fresh architectural air set just above the Arctic Circle,” wrote the journal Wallpaper about the new Hamsun Centre.

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