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Academic Language Cafe at USN, campus Drammen. photo.

Agnes thought of dropping out - The Language Café changed her mind

Nursing student with Norwegian as their second language praises the new tutoring program at USN. – At the café, they see us and they hear us.
Horizon 2020 - photo. PHOTO: EU/HORIZON 2020

USN invited to coordinate it’s first Horizon 2020 project

Just a few months after becoming Norway’s newest university, USN has been invited by the EU to coordinate a Horizon 2020-project for the first time.

Kristy Yiu and Steffen Torp at campus Drammen USN. Photo.

Exchange student Kristy helps USN develop new master's programme

The partnership between USN and McMaster University from 2015 has already resulted in the creation of a Global Health course. Now they are working to establish a new and unique master’s programme within the same discipline.
Everyone who has walked upwards towards mountain areas has observed a gradual reduction in the trees’ height and dominance before treeless mountain moors completely take over. Gauri Bandekar (29) from Goa in India has taken her PhD at USN to take a closer look at this.

Mainland Norway does not have any bioclimatic Arctic vegetation

Temperature conditions both in the forests and heather moors in the far north of Norway indicate both that these areas don’t belong in the Arctic.
Elaheh Tavakoli from Iran was awarded grant for top PhD students, and has spent seven months as a PhD student at USN. Photo

Highly productive stay at USN

Elaheh Tavakoli from Iran was awarded grant for top PhD students, and has spent seven months as a PhD student at USN.
USN – Norway has a brand new University. Illustration.

Norway’s newest university

University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) is the newest university in Norway, and with 18.000 students, USN becomes the fourth largest university in Norway. USN was established on the 4th of May 2018.

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