News & Events

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. Read more

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. Read more

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

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. Read more

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

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

“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. Read more

Norway has much to offer tourists in the winter: snow, mountains, fjords and the unique culture of the Sámi people. We invited Audun Pettersen, one of the people most actively involved in Norway’s tourist industry, to tell us about some of the activities he would recommend. Read more

Twenty years after the Samediggi (the Sámi parliament) was established, the number of individuals registered as part of the Sámi population has risen from 5 500 to almost 14 000. Read more

Welfare day - Brain teaser! Read more

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• A more ambitious Norwegian development policy
• Press Release on Immigration policy

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