This news entry is coming to you from our youngest EUROPEAns, the first year students of Stend Vidaregåande Skule, Bergen, Norway: ‘In the 1700s, there were many big, beautiful gardens all over the country. One of those, was at Stend. It was one of Norway’s most beautiful gardens and it was well known. But eventually, […]

One of the 1000 members of EUROPEA: Stend Vidaregåande Skule …is a 153 years old institution in the countryside close to the second biggest city of Norway, Bergen. At moment the age doesn’t bother us. We claim that age is just a number and nothing to worry about, and like any successful elderly organization, we […]

Did you know that only 3 % of Norway is arable land? – And that only 30% of this again can be used for grain production? Or that Norway is more than 2500 km long from south to north, so that if we  keep the southernmost part of our country in place and turn the […]

Did you know that only 3 % of Norway is arable land? – And that only 30% of this again can be used for grain production? Or that Norway is more than 2500 km long from south to north, so that if we  keep the southernmost part of our country in place and turn the […]

Island of Senja (NO), 6-7 May 2019   Rita Backer Natvig, our Norwegian National Coordinator on the Annual Meeting of EUROPEA-Norway: “We arranged our annual meeting for the agricultural schools in Norway this week on the beautiful Island of Senja in the northern part of Norway (an hour by boat from Tromsø). We visited Gibostad […]

Today the pictures and the article about the month of the member state – NORWAY! –  are coming to you from Mære Agricultural College! This EUROPEA school is situated in the middle of Norway, 100 km north of Trondheim. In Mære students of the 3rd grade are in charge of spring farming, so Kristine, Julie, […]

Education in Norway is mandatory for all children from the age of 6 to the age of 16. Upper secondary education is not mandatory, but all young people have a right to attend 3 years in upper secondary school. The overview in the end of this article gives you an idea of the structure at […]

May is in Norwegian colors