Risøy Folk High School is a boarding school located on the Norwegian riviera, on the beautiful Risøya island near the town of Tvedestrand in southern Norway.
You will get by well in Norway speaking English, however is basic knowledge of the Norwegian language necessary. We suggest e. g. a Linguaphone course or similar before arriving. We arrange for a course in basic Norwegian your first 8 weeks, 3 hrs. weekly plus self study.
We encourage you to read about the Nordic Folk High School movement which started in Denmark in 1844. Recommendable websites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_high_school
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaj_Frederik_Severin_Grundtvig
We recommend that you make yourself familiar with our different courses by applying e. g. Google translate on the pages on our website.
We welcome you to a folk high school year with experiences, personal development and new friends!
The first Folk High School was founded in 1847 in Denmark by the educationalist Nicolai Grundtvig, and today more than 400 folk high schools offer one year courses to more than 30.000 students throughout the Nordic countries. The schools offer a large variety of courses and have the common goal of providing youngsters skills for life and of supporting the development of democracy.
Students from outside of the Nordic countries are required to have a contact family /person in Norway that can accommodate you during the school vacations (Fall, Christmas, Winter and Easter vacations, app. 1 week each). We will need a statement from them/him/her concerning this.
A school year costs NOK 93.000 – 104.000 (app. € 11.300 – 12.600, or $ 15.000 – 16.900) plus admission fee NOK 1.800. This covers board, lodging, tuition and some study travels. Personal expenses are not included. Some extracurricular travels are not included (not mandatory travels).
You will have to sign a declaration of compliance which limits the school´s liabilities.
All students are covered by the school´s insurance during curricular activities. Students from the EU/EEA/EFTA (Schengen) region should bring with them a European Health Insurance Card. Contact your local social security office for this. Students from outside the EU / EEA / EFTA region need medical insurance. All students are required to have travel insurance. We suggest that you contact a students organization in your country for information/recommendation on students insurance. Make sure that you are covered for the whole school year even when having a fixed address.