Information for refugees
USN offers higher education, work practice and facilities for Ukrainian refugees.
For Ukrainian refugees living in Norway
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Do you need someone to talk to?
Student chaplains Pernille Astrup and Kristian Gotehus Køhn, and SSN's Mental Health Service are available to students who feel the need to talk to someone about what is happening.
Pernille can be reached on telephone 474 01 110, and Kristian on telephone 900 74 770.
SSN Health is open Monday to Friday. You can book appointments online.
If you do not have a Norwegian social security number or telephone number, kindly contact Kristin Maute (kristin.maute@ssn.no / 31 00 84 50). She will arrange an appointment for you.
Information for refugees
Financial security to Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian students in Norway
The Norwegian Government is establishing a grant scheme for the spring semester 2022. All students who qualify for the grant will receive NOK 11 500 per month from March to August. PhD students will receive up to NOK 21 000.
The reason for this is that some Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian students in Norway are having financial problems as a result of the war. This may be because their parents or other sources of funding can no longer continue to help them, or because they have lost access to their funds as a result of economic sanctions against Russia.
Eligible applicants:
- Students and PhD students at USN from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
- Self-funded students who have lost access to their funding due to the war.
- The scheme excludes Ukrainian, Russian, or Belarusian citizens who have ordinary rights to a student loan through Lånekassen.
How to apply:
- Students will need to fill in and submit the application form.
- Required documentation needs to be attached to the application, in order to have the application processed.
- The declaration of honor must be signed, scanned and attached to the online application form, in order to have the application processed.
- Information given in the form must be verifyed, as far as possible, providing required necessary documentation.
- Please note that applicants for such funding will be required to substantiate and document their need for such funds, and that decisions to grant support to individual students will be based on a discretionary assessment of the extent to which such needs are properly substantiated and documented.
Students who believe that they are eligible must apply for the scholarship via their educational institution. The scheme will be in effect from 1 March to August 2022.
Applications will be processed quickly. Please count on a processing time of 3 working days to effectuate the payment, once the application is submitted. Payments will be effectuated through bank transfers or through issuing "kronekort" - cash cards - to the receiver at the service front desk on campus.