News about HiØ

From Monday, June 3rd, 187 employees at the university college will go on strike. This is a third escalation by Unio after negotiations were broken off earlier in May

At Østfold university college a wave of AI-related initiatives is set to reshape the academic landscape. The launch of the Østfold AI hub marks a pivotal moment in fostering collaboration across faculties and engaging with stakeholders regionally and globally.

The master's degree in scenography at the Norwegian Theatre Academy is not only experimental, exploratory, and expanding an interdisciplinary context. It also opens doors to scenographic work as stage-designers at large theatres!

Researchers at Østfold University College establish the first Trustworthy AI Lab in Norway and become part of a global academic network aimed at assessing the ethical integrity of artificial intelligence projects.

From 2nd to 6th October 2023, our first FieldworkLAB was organized in Milan.

A travelogue from a multicultural classroom in Zanzibar.

At NERA 2023 the NoZa - Intercultural Mobility Project shared digital challenges and opportunities when designing a joint course across continents.

Another important milestone is reached in our EEA Grants- project Blended learning in vocational education and training (BlendVET): Meeting the teachers! To mark the start of our close collaboration with participating teachers from Norway’s two BlendVET schools, Eva Dyrnes, Stine Brynildsen and Sonja Nygaard-Joki from HiØ organized a workshop at the campus of Åssiden in Drammen.  

Finally the Norwegian and Zanzibarian project partners in the NoZa – intercultural mobility project met physically, to develop a joint course in Teacher Education.

Teacher students from the Netherlands and international students from  Kenya and Zanzibar visited schools in Halden and Østfold University College last week, to learn how the Norwegian education system works. 

It has been 24 hours since we woke up to the news that the war had come to Europe, that Ukraine is under attack. The situation is serious, frightening and demanding for most of us. But my thoughts first go to employees and students who are affected, and not least to the Ukrainian population and our partners in Ukraine, says Rector Lars-Petter Jelsness-Jørgensen.

Steinar Nybøle, director of the Norwegian Foreign Language Centre (Østfold University College) is re-elected vice chair of The European Centre for Modern Languages, a unit under the Council of Europe