Mysen Upper Secondary School

Mysen Upper Secondary School won the Holberg Prize School Project 2011. Lundeneset Upper Secondary School got second place and Vadsø Upper Secondary School got third place.

First place to Mysen Upper Secondary School

Do immigrant youth experience cultural conflict more often with ethnic Norwegians, than with other immigrants with a different cultural background than themselves?  That was the question's Alisa Mujanic raised in her Holberg prize school project.  She won the prize of NOK 15,000, awarded by Research and Higher Education Minister Tora Aasland, and winner of Holberg's international memorial prize, Jürgen Kocka, at Bergen Cathedral School on Wednesday, June 8, 2011.

Second place to Lundeneset Upper Secondary School

Students from Lundeneset Upper Secondary School came second in the Holberg Prize School Project 2011, with the project "Healthy Burdens - About self-image among youth." The project is based on the questions: What is the reason many young people often are not happy with themselves? What kind of factors influence a good self image? Is there a difference between boys and girls' self image? The project was carried out by Maria Gjerde, Maria Vårvik, Ester Alida Vold and Sigrid Lobekk from Lundeneset Upper Secondary School.

Third place to Vadsø Upper Secondary School

The third prize of NOK 5000 went to the research project "The King Crab. Resource or enemy?" by Øyvind Erichsen and Hans Ivar Hortmann from Vadsø Upper Secondary School. Today, the king crab is a well-known phenomenon in Norway, and especially in Finnmark. Erichsen and Hortmann found through a survey and interviews, that scientists differ in their view of the king crab; its impact on the marine ecosystem, and its impact on the fishing industry in Northern Norway.

Download: Winners of the 2011 Holberg Prize School Projects