Red Cross Nordic United World College

Our Aims

The aim of the United World Colleges is to use education as a force to unite people. The Nordic College, with a special emphasis on environmental and humanitarian concerns, brings highly motivated young students from all parts of the world so they can live and learn together. Our objective is to help students become active, involved and educated citizens whose attitudes towards understanding and service will be a powerful catalyst for change. Through these students, who are selected on merit as representatives of their countries, we hope to influence their wider communities to become more understanding, compassionate and peaceful. In short, we wish to create a better and more tolerant world.

Our Values

The College promotes:

• International and intercultural understanding
• The celebration of difference
• Personal responsibility and integrity
• Mutual responsibility and respect
• Compassion and service
• Heightened interaction with the environment
• A sense of idealism
• Personal challenge
• Exemplary, personal action