Dahlske Upper Secondary School

Winners of the Holberg Prize School Project 2017 together with the Minister of Education and Research Thorbjørn Røe Isaksen and Onora O’Neill, winner of the Holberg Prize 2017. Photo: Thor Brødreskift.

Dahlske Upper Secondary School won the Holberg Prize School Project 2017.

Aina Pedersen, Beate Haugen, Helene Storenes, Helene Storsæter and Serina Hansen from Dahlske Upper Secondary School in Aust-Agder, won the Holberg Prize School Project 2017 with their project “Study Drugs. The Dark Side of Performance Culture?”. In the project, they explore why students use performance-enhancing drugs in education context. 

The Research Project

Title:

Study Drugs. The Dark Side of Performance Culture?

Written by:

Aina Pedersen, Beate Haugen, Helene Storenes, Helene Storsæter and Serina Hansen

Year:

The School Programme

Tre jenter, tidligere deltakere i Holbergprisen i skolen på fagdagen. Rollup med logo i bakgrunn.

The Holberg School Programme is an annual research competition for students in Norwegian upper secondary schools i the humanities, social sciences law and theology. Each year, around 1,000 students from 20 selected schools participate in the competition.

The Holberg School Programme Jury selects three research projects that are awarded prizes of NOK 30,000, NOK 20,000 and NOK 10,000 respectively.

The finalists are announced in mid May, and the award ceremony is held during the Holberg Week in early June each year.