Nansen Academy

Nansen Academy Nansenskolen, Norsk humanistisk akademi (Norwegian)

Logo of Nansenskolen
Address
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsonsgate 2 Lillehammer, Norway 2609,
Information
Founded	1938
Status	Folk High School
Headteacher	Dag Hareide
Age	19 to 82
Website	www.nansenskolen.no

The Nansen Academy (Norwegian: Nansenskolen, Norsk humanistisk akademi) the Norwegian Humanistic Academy, is a folk high school in Lillehammer, Norway.

It was named after Fritjof Nansen, and established in 1938 by Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup, Jr. and Anders Platou Wyller. Founded as a humanist and anti-totalitarian institution, it was closed and dissolved during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, after only one year of existence (its first school year started in 1939). It resurfaced after the occupation, in 1946.^[1]

Nansen Academy started the Norwegian Festival of Literature and the first national dialogues between religions in Norway. It organizes the yearly Olympic academies in cooperatin with the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of sports. The Nansen Academy also organise a center working on dialogue in warzones and for peace education, the Norwegian Peace Center and Nansen Dialogue. The academy won the Fritt Ord Award in 1987 and an UNESCO award in 1998.^[1] The present director is Dag Hareide.

Panorama photograph of the complex of buildings

References

^ ^a ^b Henriksen, Petter, ed (2007). "Nansenskolen" (in Norwegian). Store norske leksikon. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. http://www.snl.no/Nansenskolen. Retrieved 22 July 2009.

Awards
Preceded by Magli Elster and Torolf Elster	Recipient of the Fritt Ord Award 1987	Succeeded by Leo Eitinger