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Elvebakken Upper Secondary School earned second prize in the Holberg Prize School Project competition 2020.
Kanwarjot Kaur from Elvebakken Upper Secondary School came second with her project “Norway and the Curse of Resource Abundance”, where she discusses why Norway has avoided the problem of resource abundance.
The School Programme
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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.