Summer programmes

During the nearly 40 years The Memorial Fund has existed, the fund has awarded more than 1000 scholarships to foreign students for one year at a Norwegian folk high school. This scholarship was established to promote cultural exchange between foreign countries and the Norwegian folk high schools. From 2010 The Memorial Fund will close down, so the academic year 2010-11 will be the last year of ...

Norway’s first folk high school opened in 1864, and today there are 77 folk high schools located throughout the country. Approximately 6,000 students attend folk high schools each year, mostly young adults between the ages of 18 and 25 who have completed their upper secondary education. A number of folk high schools also offer short-term courses for seniors and four provide special programmes f...