Alpinisten Aksel Lund Svindal, Kitzbühel januar 2010.
Photo: Franck Fife/Scanpix

Alpine skier Aksel Lund Svindal, Kitzbühel, January 2010. Photo: Franck Fife/Scanpix

From the South Pole to Vancouver

News and events // 01/02/2010 //

Norwegians like to think they are born with skis on their feet. But will their country’s illustrious history of polar expeditions and skiing innovations actually help Norwegian skiers to compete against the crème-de-la-crème at the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver? And will Norway be rewarded once again for fair play?

Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre's speech at the Symposium: Ten Years with the Stockholm Declaration (the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research)

News and events // 29/01/2010 //

Stockholm, 26 January 2010

Taking our bilateral relations further and forward: Foreign Minister Støre in Israel 16-18 January 2010

News and events // 25/01/2010 //

The visit of the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Støre to Israel highlights the progress in the bilateral cooperation between Norway and Israel, and provides an opportunity to further the political dialogue between our countries.

International Ibsen Scholarships

Study and work //

Scholarships are awarded to individuals, organizations or institutions within the artistic and cultural community. The scholarships are meant to act as incentives for critical discourse in regards to existential and society-related subject matters concerning Henrik Ibsen.

Norway’s Stoltenberg initiates climate group on forests

News and events // 08/01/2010 //

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has said that he will initiate a climate group consisting of the most important forest countries.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day reminds us that we must not forget

In Norway, International Holocaust Remembrance Day is marked on 27 Feb. at the quayside in Oslo.
Photo: MFA

News and events // 29/01/2010 //

Each year, International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the horrors that confronted the world when the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz was liberated 65 years ago. “This day is important. It reminds us of the atrocities of the past, and of the responsibility we have today to fight genocide, oppression, racism, discrimination and anti-Semitism,” Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre c...

Summer programmes

Study and work // 25/01/2010 //

Are you interested in spending the summer in Norway while earning study credits? Here is an overview of summer programmes at Norwegian universities and university colleges.

Let there be northern lights

Northern lights
Photo: Bjørn Jørgensen / Innovation Norway

Visit Norway // 08/10/2009 //

The North Cape in Finnmark is one of many good places in Northern Norway to see the northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis.

Offisielt reiseråd for Israel

Norsk // 26/10/2009 //

Utenriksdepartementet fraråder alle reiser til grenseområdet (40 km) mot Gaza i det sørlige Israel, og nordmenn som oppholder seg i området bes følge de råd og anvisninger som til enhver tid gis av israelske myndigheter, samt holde kontakt med ambassaden i Tel Aviv.

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Royal Norwegian Embassy in Tel Aviv