Olivia Høegh-Omdal Paulsen and Eline Loe Rønvik at Elvebakken Upper Secondary School in Oslo won the Holberg Prize School Project of 2014.
Olivia Høegh-Omdag Paulsen and Eline Loe Rønvik from Elvebakken Upper Secondary School won the Holberg School Project Prize in 2014 with their research project about the Kven people. This is a Finnish-Norwegian ethnic minority, and their project stresses the Kven People’s historical struggle for official recognition. Their research project is called “Who is not a Kven? The Kven peoples’ silent struggle for recognition”.
The Research Project
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Olivia Høegh-Omdal Paulsen and Eline Loe Rønvik
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The School Programme
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.