Each year, Fritt Ord awards the Freedom of Expression Foundation Prize to individuals or institutions that have shown civil courage and worked to defend and strengthen freedom of expression and the conditions for it in Norway, especially by encouraging dynamic debate.
On Monday, 9 January 2017, photo and video journalist Mehman Huseynov was kidnapped on the streets of Baku and held by Azerbaijani authorities for 19 hours. During those hours, he was harshly beaten, forced to sign documents and then drugged. This report comes from the Azerbaijani human rights organisation, the Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS). IRFS strives to improve conditions for free and independent journalism in Azerbaijan. They vehemently condemn the violent acts against Huseynov, who has been chair of the organisation’s Board since 2016.
The application deadlines for 2019 are: 4 January 8 March 3 May 2 August 13 September 1 November
Applications to the Fritt Ord Foundation should be submitted here: portal.frittord.no. (The English language option is in the top-right corner.) For further information, please contact tel. +47 23 01 46 46 or email: post@frittord.no.
The application deadlines for 2017 are: 6 January 10 February 31 March 12 May 7 August 15 September 3 November
We would also remind you that the call for proposals for earmarked funding for New Journalism.
The FutureLab Europe programme focuses on young people between the ages of 20 and 30 who would like to take part in debates and influence the future of Europe. One member of this year’s group of 20 individuals from all over Europe is Norwegian Stine Solvoll Navarsete. She will be heading for Brussels in January 2017 to participate in FutureLab’s annual forum.
Is Norway among the best in the world both at facilitating peace and at participating in war in other countries? Do the public and leadership have a plan for dealing with terrorism, refugee crises, the administration of mass immigration and the preservation of the welfare state?
Speech by Jury member, Martin Paulsen, at the award dinner at Restaurant Funicular in Tbilisi, Georgia, Friday, 25 November 2016.
Earlier this week, the Free Media Prizes for Independent Journalism in Eastern Europe were presented by the Fritt Ord Foundation and the ZEIT Foundation at the Free Media Awards ceremony at the Goethe Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia. The event took place on 24 – 25 November 2016. In addition to the awards ceremony, there was an international conference for journalists featuring lectures and debates on sustainable, independent journalism, monitoring and journalistic standards.
Press release from Ministry of Cultural Affairs, 17 November 2016
Fritt Ord Foundation and KORO – Public Art Norway / URO invite to the conference PUBLIC CALLING, at the National Theatre in Oslo, Norway.
Seminar for upper secondary school teachers
Seminar for upper secondary school teachers
Fritt Ord and the Norwegian Journal of Photography invite the public to a seminar featuring the Belgian-Tunisian photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa on Monday, 24 October 2016, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Fritt Ord Foundation, Uranienborgveien 2 in Oslo.
The New York Review of Books Foundation and Fritt Ord invite the public to the conference ‘Technology and the Human Future’, 20–21 October 2016 at Fritt Ord, Uranienborgveien 2, Oslo.
On 14 – 15 October 2016, HIFO will organise a seminar for history teachers who want to use the History Competition “My family in history” in their teaching. The seminar will take place at the Fritt Ord Foundation’s premises in Oslo.