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Oddmund Løkensgard Hoel
Oddmund Løkensgard Hoel (born 8 November 1968) is a Norwegian professor and politician for the Centre Party. He served as minister of research and higher education from 2024 to 2025, having previously served as state secretary to said minister between 2021 and 2024. Academic career He studied Nordic languages and literature at the University of Oslo in 1996 and received a doctorate in history from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2009. Hoel went on to work for the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences from 2007. He became a professor in 2019. Furthermore, he has been the editor of journal ''Heimen'' since 2019 and also led Noregs Mållag between 1999 and 2002. Political career Local politics Hoel was elected to the municipal council of Luster Municipality at the 2019 local elections. He wasn't re-elected after the 2023 local elections. State Secretary He was appointed state secretary to the Minister of Research and Higher Education, Ola Borten M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Research And Higher Education
The Minister of Research and Higher Education (, ) is a Cabinet of Norway, councilor of state in the Ministry of Education and Research (Norway), Ministry of Education and Research. The incumbent minister is Sigrun Gjerløw Aasland of the Labour Party (Norway), Labour Party who has served since February 2025. The post was originally established in 2007, before its responsibilities were transferred to the Ministry of Culture (Norway), Ministry of Culture in 2012. The post was re-established when the Liberal Party joined the Solberg Cabinet in 2018. Ministers Key See also * Minister of Education (Norway) References {{Authority control Lists of government ministers of Norway, Research and Higher Education Higher education ministers of Norway 2007 establishments in Norway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Norwegian Local Elections
The 2023 Norwegian local elections were held on 11 September 2023. Voters elected representatives to municipal and county councils, which are responsible for education, public transportation, healthcare, elderly care, waste disposal, the levy of certain taxes, and more. All council seats were up for election across the 15 Counties of Norway, counties and 357 List of municipalities of Norway, municipalities of Norway. The 2019 Norwegian local elections, previous local elections, held in September 2019, resulted in a nationwide victory for the centre-left parties, known as the Red–green coalition (Norway), red-green coalition. The five red-green parties, namely the Labour Party (Norway), Labour, Centre Party (Norway), Centre, Green Party (Norway), Green, Socialist Left Party (Norway), Socialist Left, and Red Party (Norway), Red parties, secured around 56% of the national popular vote in the municipal elections at that time. Meanwhile, the then-ruling majority in the Storting, made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jostedalen
Jostedalen is a river valley in Luster Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The long valley runs from the Lustrafjorden at the village of Gaupne, to the north along the river Jostedøla and along the eastern side of the Jostedal Glacier. The valley is deep, but the valley floor lies over long stretches of flat river plains interrupted by steep steps. In the north, the landscape gets pretty wild. The Jostedalsbreen National Park surrounds the valley, which brings a lot of tourism to the area. The Nigardsbreen glacier is also accessible from the valley. Historically, most of the valley was part of the old municipality of Jostedal from 1838 until its dissolution in 1963 when it was merged into Luster Municipality. Name The Old Norse form of the name was probably . The first element is then the genitive of ''Jastra'' (the old name of the river Jostedøla) and the last element is ''dalr'' which means "valley" or "dale". The river name is probably derived from ''jǫstr'' which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nettavisen
''Nettavisen'' is a Norway, Norwegian online newspaper, launched in 1996 as the first online-only newspaper in Norway. The current editor is Gunnar Stavrum. As of 2015, it was one of Norway's most popular news websites. History The online newspaper (its literal name in Norwegian) was launched on 1 November 1996, and was founded by Odd Harald Hauge, Stig Eide Sivertsen and Knut Ivar Skeid. In 1999 the newspaper was bought by Spray Sweden, which became part of Lycos Europe in 2000. In 2000 the founders of ''Nettavisen'' helped launch the (now-defunct) German sister site ''Netzeitung''. In 2002 ''Nettavisen'' was bought by Norway's largest commercial television channel ''TV 2 (Norway), TV 2''. Due to millions of Norwegian krone, NOK in deficits and resulting major staff cuts, on 23 October 2008 the board of ''TV 2'' decided to initiate negotiations with its owners, Egmont Group, Egmont and Amedia, to sell the newspaper. From 2009 ''Nettavisen'' has been owned directly by Egmont and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Himanshu Gulati
Himanshu Gulati (born 16 June 1988) is a Norwegian politician of Indian ancestry representing the Progress Party (Norway), Progress Party. Gulati was the chairperson of the Progress Party's Youth from 2012 to 2014. He served as State Secretary (Norway), State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice and Public Security from 2013 to 2014, and at the Office of the Prime Minister (Norway), Office of the Prime Minister from 2014 until 2017. In 2017 he was elected as a representative in the Storting, Norwegian parliament from Akershus (Storting constituency), Akershus, where he has served in the Standing Committee on Justice, Committee on Justice. Early life and education Born in Førde, Norway to an Indian family who immigrated to Norway from New Delhi during the 1970s, his father is a physician, and his mother is a physiotherapist. He grew up in the rural village of Lavik, Høyanger where his father worked as a general practitioner before relocating to Lillestrøm, Akershus at the age of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progress Party (Norway)
The Progress Party (; , FrP; ) is a political party in Norway. It is generally positioned to the right of the Conservative Party (Norway), Conservative Party, and is considered the most right-wing party to be represented in parliament. It is often described as right-wing populist, which has been disputed in public discourse, and has been described by various academics and some journalists as Far-right politics, far-right. By 2020, the party attained a growing national conservative faction. After the 2017 parliamentary election, it was Norway's third largest political party, with 26 representatives in the Storting. It was a partner in the Solberg's Cabinet, government coalition led by the Conservative Party from 2013 to 2020. The Progress Party focuses on law and order (politics), law and order, downsizing the bureaucracy and the public sector; the FrP self-identifies as an economic liberal party which competes with the left to represent the workers of Norway. The party has offi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vestland
Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in Hermansverk. Vestland is one of two counties in Norway that have Nynorsk as their official written language form. Vestland was created on 1 January 2020, when the former counties of Hordaland and Sogn og Fjordane were merged. History Vestland county is a newly created county, but it has been inhabited for millennia. The area was made up of many petty kingdoms under the Gulating during the Middle Ages. The northern part was then known as ''Firdafylke'' (now the Fjordane region; Nordfjord-Sunnfjord), the central area was known as ''Sygnafylke'' (now the Sogn region), and the southern part was known as ''Hordafylke''. In the early 16th century, Norway was divided into four ''len''. The Bergenhus len was headquartered in Bergen and encompa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aftenposten
(; ; stylized as in the masthead) is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation as well as Norway's newspaper of record. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 daily copies in 2015 (172,029 printed copies according to University of Bergen) and estimated 1.2 million readers. It converted from broadsheet to compact format in March 2005. ''Aftenposten''s online edition is at Aftenposten.no. ''Aftenposten'' is a private company wholly owned by the public company Schibsted ASA. Norway's second largest newspaper, ''VG'', is also owned by Schibsted. Norwegian owners held a 42% of the shares in Schibsted at the end of 2015. The paper has around 240 employees. Trine Eilertsen was appointed editor-in-chief in 2020. Aftenposten has correspondents based in Kyiv, Brussels, Washington D.C, Moscow and Istanbul (2025). History and profile ''Aftenposten'' was founded by Christian Schibsted on 14 May 1860 under the name ''Christiania Adresseblad''. The following year, it was renamed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nord University
Nord University (; ; ) is a state university in Nordland and Trøndelag counties of Norway. As of 2024, it is the second-largest research and educational institution in Northern Norway with more than 11,000 students at study locations in Northern and Central Norway, with main campuses in Bodø, the capital of the county of Nordland, and Levanger, a university town on the south shore of the Trondheim Fjord. Other campuses are located in Mo i Rana, Namsos, Nesna, Sandnessjøen, Steinkjer, Stjørdalshalsen, and Vesterålen. The university is committed to educational and research programmes, with a focus on blue and green growth, innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as welfare, health and education. Nord University offers 180 programmes within both academic and professional studies, including aquaculture, sociology, business education, nurse education, and teacher education. The university is named after the Norwegian word for North, ''Nord'', to emphasise its de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nesna (village)
Nesna is the administrative centre of Nesna Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located on a peninsula on the mainland of Norway, along the Nesnakroken strait, just north of the Ranfjorden and south of the Sjona fjord. The Norwegian County Road 17 crosses the Ranfjorden on a ferry which docks in the village before heading north along the coastline. Nesna has regular ferry connections to the nearby islands of Handnesøya, Hugla, and Tomma. The village has a population (2023) of 1,346 and a population density of . Nesna Church is located in the village, and the village is also host to a campus of Nord University. Media gallery Nesna sett fra fly.jpg, The village in the lower right corner. Nesna002.JPG, Aerial view looking northwest Nesna harbour001.JPG, Harbour view Nesna-1.jpg, Harbour view Nesna kirke 012.jpg, Nesna Church Høgskolen i Nesna004.JPG, Nord University References {{Authority control Nesna Villages in Nordland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nordland County Municipality
Nordland County Municipality () is the regional governing administration of Nordland county in Norway. The main responsibilities of the county municipality includes the running of 16 upper secondary schools, with 9,500 pupils. It administers the county roads, public transport, dental care, culture, and cultural heritage. The administrative centre of the county is the town of Bodø. County government The county municipality's most important tasks include secondary education, recreation (sports and outdoor life), and cultural heritage. The county municipality is also responsible for all county roads (including ferry operations) and public transport (including school busses). The county municipality has further responsibility for regional land-use planning, business development, power production, and environmental management. The county also has responsibility for providing dental health services (in 2002, responsibility for hospitals and public medicine was transferred from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagbladet
() is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally it was considered the main liberal newspaper of Norway, with a generally liberal progressive editorial outlook, to some extent associated with the movement of cultural radicalism in Scandinavian history. The paper edition had a circulation of 46,250 copies in 2016, down from a peak of 228,834 in 1994. The editor-in-chief is Frode Hansen (editor), Frode Hansen, the political editor is Lars Helle, the news editor is Jan Thomas Holmlund. is published six days a week and includes the additional feature magazine ''Magasinet'' every Saturday. Part of the daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid is available at ''Dagbladet.no'', and more articles can be accessed through a paywall. The daily readership of s online Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid was 1.24 million in 2016. Dagbladet online has received w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
