International Student Festival in Trondheim
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ISFiT (International Student Festival In Trondheim) is a student festival held in Trondheim, Norway, every two years. The idea of an international student festival in Trondheim originated in 1988. Trondheim has always been a city with great traditions for student commitment and activities, yet some believed that there was room for more. By bringing together students from many different parts of the world, they wanted to create an event that would be both a conference and a festival. At the first festival in 1990, 400 hundred students from 45 countries participated.
ISFiT has grown to become the world's largest thematic student festival with more than 105 countries represented in 2001. Each festival has presented speakers of high international caliber - among them the student activist Chai Ling, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Director-General of WHO Gro Harlem Brundtland, Dr. Klaus Töpfer from the UN and Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Wangari Maathai. At ISFiT, a diversity of young people get the opportunity to meet each other. The festival aims to be an arena for overcoming cultural, political and religious borderlines, in order to promote tolerance and understanding.
[edit] Themes
- 1990, A Changing Europe - What are the responsibilities of the students and their universities?
- 1992, Breaking Communication Barriers
- 1994, Human Rights
- 1997, Quality of Life
- 1999, Solving Conflicts
- 2001, Global Responsibility
- 2003, Challenging Attitudes
- 2005, Education. Why?
- 2007, Global Boundaries
- 2009, Peace Building
