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Ambassador Wegger Chr. Strommen recently visited Billings in Montana, to moderate two roundtable discussions on climate and environmental change: “Where’s the Water? Climate Impacts Globally and Locally” on June 1st and “The Business Case for a Carbon Policy” on June 2nd. Read more

The Norwegian Consulate in San Francisco, in cooperation with Innovation Norway, Silicon Vikings and the Norwegian Club of San Francisco, hosted a succesful panel discussion on solar energy on May 24, 2011. Read more

In the beginnning of June, Ambassador Wegger Chr. Strommen will visit Billings, Mont. to moderate two roundtable discussions on climate and environmental change: “Where’s the Water? Climate Impacts Globally and Locally” on June 1st and “The Business Case for a Carbon Policy” on June 2nd. Read more

More than 125 participants, including businesspeople, employees of nonprofits, members of the press and political decision-makers attended the luncheon discussion, “The Arctic Is Melting and the...

• “The Arctic Is Melting and the Desert Is Burning”: Santa Fe Climate Luncheon
• Ambassador Strommen to Speak at Climate Luncheon in Santa Fe

For the ninth year in a row, Norwegian, American and Canadian research partners are assembling for Transatlantic Science Week 2010. This year, a multilateral approach to solving global research challenges is the main item on the agenda. Read more

The Antarctic skier Liv Arnesen will participate in a lecture about Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration hosted by the American Museum of Natural History in New York on September 22nd at 6:30 pm. Read more

On Monday, September 6, 2010, Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre addressed the community of researchers participating in the 2010 Kavli Prize Science Forum in Oslo. “Our room for manoeuvre as politicians is in large part shaped by the knowledge you, as scientists, produce,” Støre said. Read more

On September 22nd, Heiberg Cummings and the Norwegian-American Chamber of Commerce will sponsor an evening with Dr. C. (Dr. William F. Cummings) at Heiberg Cummings in New York. Read more

National Institutes of Health (NIH) director Francis Collins signed on April 20th a letter of intent with the Research Council of Norway. Read more

Do you want to study abroad in Norway? Come and hear more about your opportunities to study abroad at the EXPO this Saturday, April 10th, from 2pm-6pm at Berkeley College in New York. Read more

Polar explorer and environmentalist Will Steger has brought youth from Norway, the United States, and Canada together on Arctic expeditions and climate research. Now, the Will Steger Foundation is embarking on a new kind of expedition, one that does not involve skiing and sled dogs but brings the youth voice to international talks on climate change. Read more

This fall the University of Minnesota and the Royal Norwegian Embassy hosted Transatlantic Science Week. These annual meetings were initiated by the Norwegian government in 2001 to strengthen cooperation in research, innovation, and higher education between Norway, the United States, and Canada. Read more

Please click here for photos, speaker presentaions amd participant list from Science Week 2009 in Minneapolis, MN. Read more