Lundeneset Upper Secondary School

Students from Lundeneset Upper Secondary School. Photo: Marit Hommedal / Scanpix

Students from Lundeneset Upper Secondary School came second in the Holberg Prize School Project 2011.

Maria Gjerde, Maria Vårvik, Ester Alida Vold and Sigrid Lobekk from Lundeneset Upper Secondary School won second prize in 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 Research Project

Title:

Healthy Burdens – About self-image among youth

Written by:

Maria Gjerde, Maria Vårvik, Ester Alida Vold and Sigrid Lobekk

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.