News about Norway

99 Minutes - of Norwegian Bliss
Photo: MIC

DJ 99 aka Guttorm Andreasen continues to delve deep into the cornucopia that is Norwegian music, returning with a strong a highly varied playlist and an exciting interview with jazz pianist Tord Gustavsen. Read more

Desmond Tutu speaking at ISFiT 2009
Photo: ISFIT/Fotogjengen ved Studentersamfundet i Trondjem

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

Unni Løvlid
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MIC Norway’s new webcast series '99 Minutes' continues with another strong programme packed with tracks from acts Hanne Hukkelberg, Håkon Kornstad, Ost & Kjex, Katzenjammer, Arve Henriksen, Motorpsycho and Karin Krog. Read more

99 minutes
Photo: Karoline Røed Tønnesen

MIC Norway’s new webcast series '99 Minutes' continues with another strong programme packed with tracks from acts Casiokids, Biosphere, Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas, Shining and Apoptygma Berzerk. Read more

Madcon
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Their flashmobesque Eurovision Song Contest Final performance rockets Madcon’s new single ‘Glow’ to the top of European charts. Read more

Photo: Kimm Saatvedt

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. Read more

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“Agreement has now been reached between the Norwegian and the Russian negotiating delegations on the bilateral maritime delimitation in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean," said Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. Read more

Svalbard
Photo: Jens Henrik Nybo/Innovation Norway

This June, Oslo is hosting the largest polar science meeting ever – to celebrate and publish early results from the International Polar Year (IPY) 2007-2008. It presents the first opportunity after completion of the IPY field activities for direct interaction among all the 160 IPY science cluster projects. Read more

Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has become member of the UN High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing. The group was recently appointed by the UN Secretary-General, to mobilise the financing promised for efforts against climate change during the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last December. Read more

Størst i verden
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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

Photo: WWF-Canada / Frank Parhizgar

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

A small jump for Anette Sagen, but a great leap forward for ski jumping.
Photo: Scanpix / Gorm Kallestad

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

Photo: Emile Holba

At the Ice Music Festival in Geilo, the timing of the concerts is set by the moon and the music takes its resonance from the weather. Innovative use of nature’s own materials is front and centre at this one-of-a-kind music festival. Read more

It is possible to swim with the orca whales from October to January in Tysfjord.
Photo: Solvin Zankl/Tysfjord Turistsenter

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

Photo: Johan Wildhagen/Innovation Norway

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

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The Norwegian related company, MARIS Asia Pacific Pte Ltd, was given the Minister's Innovation Award from Singapore's Ministry of Transport on 10th November 2009. Mr Bhupesh Gandhi, Director Asia Paific, was presented with the award in recognition of the contribution towards the project "Wireless Broadband Maritime Services at Sea". More information about MARIS can be found ... Read more

Under the microscope
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Norway takes third position in the World Economic Forums annual Global Gender Gap Index. Read more

Photo: Stian Andersen

After nearly three decades together, Norway’s most renowned pop group is splitting up. Read more

Autumn in Aurland
Photo: Fritjof Fure / Innovation Norway

The fjords of Norway have once again been crowned the world’s top travel destination in the annual survey of National Geographic Travelers panellists. Read more

Photo: The White House

During a ceremony in Oslo on 10 December, President Barack Obama received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. Read more