Mysen Upper Secondary School won the Holberg Prize School Project 2011.
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 “Cultural conflicts in society”. 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.
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.