Good Pitch Europe
BRITDOC, supported by Fritt Ord Foundation and other Nordic partners are bringing Good Pitch Europe to Norway on March 25th 2015.
BRITDOC, supported by Fritt Ord Foundation and other Nordic partners are bringing Good Pitch Europe to Norway on March 25th 2015.
Press Release, 9 March 2015
The Freedom of Expression Foundation Prize for 2015 is awarded to whistleblowers Robin Schaefer and Jan Erik Skog for their courageous efforts to expose circumstances worthy of criticism in Norwegian working life.
What’s Wrong with the Economy—and with Economics? To explore this question, The Fritt Ord Foundation, The New York Review of Books Foundation and The Dan David Prize are organising a two-day conference in New York. Among the topics to discussed are Economics after the Crash: A Discipline in Need of Renewal? and The Problem of Value: Economics as a Moral Science.
FutureLab Europe was established in 2011 as a cooperative project among 10 European foundations (European Alliance for Democratic Citizenship), including Fritt Ord. The programme focuses on engaged young people between the ages of 20 and 30 who would like to take part in debates and influence the future of Europe. The deadline for applications is 16 March 2015.
The Fritt Ord Foundation competition for upper secondary school students is introducing a new topic for the 2014/2015 school year: “The Heroes and Anti-heroes of Freedom of Expression”. We invite pupils to contribute texts or media productions that examine and introduce their hero or anti-hero.
Documentary photography in Norway has experienced a pronounced renaissance over the last decade, establishing its position as a self-standing genre, autonomous from Art and press photography. Owing to the Fritt Ord Foundation’s support for the Norwegian Journal of Photography (NJP), a growing number of Norwegian photographers have had a new platform to showcase their independent, long-term projects to both national and international audiences.
On Saturday, 24 January 2015, the Fritt Ord Foundation will examine in more detail the principle aspects of the debate about the controversial award one of the world’s most coveted theatre prizes, the International Ibsen Award, to Peter Handke. The conference is intended to shed light on the relationship between art, politics and freedom of expression in a broad sense.