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Freedom of Expression Foundation Prize for 2015 to Robin Schaefer and Jan Erik Skog
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?
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.
Veiledningsdag: kan bidraget ditt bli enda bedre?
Forslag til Fritt Ords Pris 2015
Call for applications: FutureLab Europe 2015 – The Council of Young European Citizens
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.
Fritt Ord Foundation competition: Freedom of expression's heroes and anti-heroes
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.
Konflikt. Mangfold. Uenighet. Hva betyr ytringsfrihet for deg?
The Fritt Ord Foundation, Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities and the Rafto Foundation organises teachers' conference
NJP calls for new photographers
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.
Artists' accountability in public and in the political sphere. Follow up of the principles involved in the Handke debate
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.
Ytringsfriheten under angrep. Debatt på Litteraturhuset lørdag 10. januar kl. 16
Fremtidens kunnskapsmiljø
Den besværlige framtiden. Om tenketanker og andre tanker.
Fritt Ords presseprisvinner Khadija Ismayilova arrestert i Aserbajdsjan
Full-day seminar for teachers in Bodø on freedom of expression and democracy
Welcome to a seminar in Bodø on Thursday, 27 November 2014 from 9.30 a.m. – 3.39 p.m. at the Stormen Library and House of Literature.