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  University of Oslo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The University of Oslo (in Norwegian Universitetet i Oslo, in Latin Universitas Osloensis) was founded in 1811 as Universitas Regia Fredericiana (the Royal Frederick University, in Norwegian Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet).
It is the largest, most prestigious and oldest university in Norway, situated in the country's capital city, as well as one of the leading universities of Scandinavia.
Until the founding of the University in 1811, the University of Copenhagen was the only university of Denmark-Norway.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_Oslo   (514 words)

  
 How do I get to the University of Oslo?
Oslo’s underground train network (called the T-bane and signified by a blue circle around a large blue "T") is laid out a bit like a bowtie east to west.
Two of Oslo’s tram lines (called the "trikk") run right by the university on their way to the national hospital ("Rikshospitalet"), which usually follows the tram line number.
Outside Oslo, bus number 335 from Nannestad in the west and bus number 363 from Lillestrøm in the east all go straight to the university.
www.uio.no /english/about_uio/how_to_get_here.html   (1289 words)

  
 Oslo University College: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Oslo University College (Høgskolen i Oslo - HiO) is the largest college in Norway[For more, click on this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
Holmenkollen is a hilly area in the outskirts of norways capital oslo (within the citys area proper)....
Viken (literally the bay) is a landscape defined by oslofjord in southeastern norway which terminates at terra scania on the coast of west sweden....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/os/oslo_university_college.htm   (400 words)

  
 University of Oslo
The University of Oslo (Universitetet i Oslo, in Latin Universitas Osloensis) was founded in 1811 as Universitas Regia Fredericiana (the Royal Frederick University, norwegian Det Kgl.
The Faculty of Law is still located at the old campus on Karl Johans gate (Oslo's central pedestrian street), near the National Theatre, the Royal Castle, the Supreme Court and the Parliament, while most of the other faculties are located at a modern campus area called Blindern, erected from the 1930'ies.
The reason the university was established as late as 1811, is that Norway and Denmark prior to 1814 were in a personal union (see Denmark-Norway), with Copenhagen being the common capital.
en.efactory.pl /Uio   (329 words)

  
 STUDY ABROAD - The University of Oslo, Norway
Oslo, the capital of Norway, has a current population of over 500,000 and is quickly becoming the most international and multicultural city in Norway.
Students who have completed one full academic year of university level work at MSU with a GPA of 3.0 by the time they begin studies at the University of Oslo are eligible.
Oslo is situated in the eastern part of the country, at the head of the Oslo fjord, in a natural basin on the lower slopes of wooded hills.
www.montana.edu /wwwoie/oslo.htm   (790 words)

  
 EnglishHiO - Velkommen til HiO / Welcome to OUC / Faculties and Centres / Faculty of Nursing / About the Faculty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Faculty of Nursing was formed in 1994, when Oslo University College was established after the National College Reform of '94.
During the reform, 18 smaller colleges in the Oslo area were merged into what was to become the largest institution for professional education in Norway.
Oslo University College, Pb 4 St. Olavs plass, 0130 Oslo, Norway, tel.
www.hio.no /content/view/full/11226   (264 words)

  
 BU Global Exchange Partners - ITESM, Kyungpook National University (KNU), University of Oslo, and Universidad ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Founded in 1811, the University of Oslo is Norway’s largest and oldest institution of higher education.
The University of Oslo has initiated a program called the Norwegian School of Entrepreneurship, which is sponsored by the Norwegian government.
Boston University welcomes students from the Norwegian School of Entrepreneurship at the University of Oslo to Boston each summer.
www.bu.edu /exchange/partnership   (436 words)

  
 The Faculty of Theology
The Faculty of Theology was established in 1811, as one of the four first faculties at the founding of the University of Oslo (The Royal University of King Frederik, or Universitas Regia Fredericiana).
In the beginning, activity at the University was mainly connected with teaching, and in the period of 1815-1879 altogether 4442 students took their professional exams at the University.
It is a long road in time and development from the establishment of the faculty and Professor Hersleb's first lecture catalogue of Spring 1813 (in Latin) and Autumn 1813 (in Norwegian), to today's faculty with about 20 academic employees, 11 research fellows and 8 administrative staff.
www.tf.uio.no /english   (387 words)

  
 University of Oslo - UiO
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest and oldest institution of higher education.
It was founded in 1811 when Norway was still under Danish rule.
Four Nobel Prize winners indicates the quality of the research at the University.
www.uio.no /english   (38 words)

  
 SIU-Courses at the University of Oslo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The University of Oslo, founded in 1811, is Norway's largest and oldest university and leading academic institution.
In addition to some 80 formal bilateral agreements and a wide range of co-operation projects world-wide, the University of Oslo maintains extensive links with institutions in the Nordic countries, the European Union, the Baltic States and Eastern Europe, as well as long-term co-operation with institutions in developing countries.
In addition and partly as a result of this type of co-operation, the University of Oslo offers a wide range of Master's Degree programmes with a focus on global development issues and admits annually a considerable number of master's and doctoral scholars from institutions in the South.
www.siu.no /vev.nsf/print/F094C8A40D464819C1256C08002DCD70   (367 words)

  
 University of Oslo
The University of Oslo is Norway's leading research university and largest teaching institution.
Since its foundation in 1811, the University of Oslo has contributed to international research through four Nobel prizes and participation in international networks and consortia within a wide range of scientific disciplines.
The flow of researchers to and from the University of Oslo is substantial, and Oslo annually hosts a high number of international conferences and seminars.
www.wun.ac.uk /view.php?id=8   (299 words)

  
 index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The European Master Programme in Higher Education has signed exchange agreements with the University of Obirin, Japan and the University of New England, Australia within the framework of the Erasmus Mundus programme.
They are involved in higher education research, teaching and consultancy, both as experts within their national contexts, as well as on a European and international arena.
They are located either within universities or as independent research centres and work on an individual basis as well as together as an association and or in cooperation with a large number of international partners.
www.uv.uio.no /hedda   (208 words)

  
 University of Oslo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Carsten Hansen (Oslo, Norway) has been an associate professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, since 1996.
Before going into his Ph.D. studies he was teaching for a year at the Department of Philosophy of University of Oslo.
She is completing a graduate degree in philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, finishing next month.
rationality.albertina.ru /24Osl.htm   (403 words)

  
 Presentation of Health Economics Research Programme at the University of Oslo (HERO), Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
HERO is a research programme concentrating on research in health economics at the University of Oslo, Norway's oldest and largest university.
The programme's administration is located at the Institute of Health Management and Health Economics in Forskningsveien 3A, close to Campus of University of Oslo, Blindern, and Oslo Innovation Center.
The Faculty of Social Sciences is host faculty for Health Economics Research Programme at the University of Oslo, and appoints the board leader for the programme.
www.hero.uio.no /eng.html   (303 words)

  
 Arne Naess, Centre for Development and the Environment
Arne Næss, the founder of Deep Ecology and one of Norway's best known philosophers, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oslo, and has been working with SUM since 1991.
Born in 1912 in Oslo, graduated at the University of Oslo in 1933, studied in Paris and Vienna.
Doctorate in 1936 (thesis title: Erkenntnis und wissenschaftliches Verhalten), professor of Philosophy at University of Oslo from 1939 to 1969, then free-lance philosopher and naturalist, and from 1970 onwards environmental activist.
www.sum.uio.no /staff/arnena   (451 words)

  
 Global Justice : SYMPOSIUM (With introductory course for research students) : University of Oslo 9-13 September 2003
From 9 to 13 September 2003 the Ethics Programme at the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Ethics Network hosted an international symposium on the topic of Global Justice.
Two articles in Norwegian on Thomas Pogge (in the Oslo University newspaper Uniforum and the magazine Apollon) can be accessed here and here.
This was the first in a series of annual lectures on burning normative issues to be given at the University of Oslo by leading ethicists.
www.etikk.no /globaljustice   (732 words)

  
 SSA: Forms: University of Oslo
The University of Oslo is Norway's largest and oldest.
It was established in 1811 after a prolonged period of demands from the educated class of Norwegians.
The University is a full service university, except for studies in Business Administration.
www.ssafara.net /forms/10693.html   (157 words)

  
 Works of Love Conference 2003: May 31-June 5, Philadelphia, PA || Confirmed Speakers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He has taught at Yale University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Denver, is an adjunct professor in the Department of Education Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota, and serves as the first Visiting Scholar at The William T. Grant Foundation in New York City.
She has taught at Yale University and the University of Virginia where she is currently professor of philosophy of religion.
She was Visiting Professor in Feminist Theology at the University of Oslo (1998-2001) and, during the fall semester of 1999, she held the Charles Brueggeman Chair in Ecumenical Theology and Interreligious Dialogue at Xavier University, Cincinnati.
www.metanexus.net /conference2003/speakers.html   (11587 words)

  
 Department of Geosciences, UiO
The geosciences are the studies of planet Earth; the atmosphere, the hydrosphere (including oceans, freshwater and glaciers), the earth's surface and its interior.
The department represents the University of Oslo in the strategic research cooperation Oslo Centre for Interdisciplinary Environmental and Social Research - CIENS.
The Department of Geoscience has a close cooperation with UNIS - the University Studies at Svalbard, and it is easy to incorporatet a term or two at Svalbard in the studies at the department.
www.geo.uio.no /english   (369 words)

  
 NORDIC INTERCONNECTED SUBJECT-BASED INFORMATION GATEWAYS (NISBIG). Final report.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Oslo will be part of the upcoming Norwegian national subject gateway project (BIBSYS emneportal) [17], a cooperation between all universities, colleges and their libraries together with several national library coordinating agencies.
DTV, NetLab and Oslo University Library initiated the NISBIG project with a small number of limited and specific goals, crucial for advancing many of the issues relevant to other projects the partners are involved in.
Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo, IT-seksjonen [5] participates in the project ``Digitalt bibliotek'' at University of Oslo.
www.lub.lu.se /nisbig/slutrapport.html   (9343 words)

  
 Tom Christensen, Professor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
degree at the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo in 1974 and his dr. philos.
He worked for the University of Tromsø; as a senior reseach assistant/research fellow/associate professor in the period from 1975-86.
Associate professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Oslo from 1986-93.
www.statsvitenskap.uio.no /ansatte/presentasjon/vit/eng/stvtc1.html   (207 words)

  
 NetLab, Past Projects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The objectives of the ISPO funded European Universal Classroom (EUC) have been to establish an open access, Internet based platform which offers services that could demonstrate the usefulness and added value of using multimedia and modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education.
Eurolund is intended for the use of students and researchers at Lund University but also for that of the general public, schools, industry, authorities and organisations.
Lund University Dissertation Abstracts is a database with theses presented at Lund University in all areas of study.
netlab.lub.lu.se /Projects-past.html   (1561 words)

  
 Norway: University of Oslo
The University of Oslo was established in 1811 under the name of ’the Royal University of Fredrick’ – the Danish King reigning both Norway and Denmark at that time.
University of Oslo Institute of Archaeology, Art History and Numismatology
The conservation focuses on the remedial and preventive conservation of paintings, polychrome sculpture and historic objects.
www.culturalprofiles.org.uk /norway/Units/1309.html   (444 words)

  
 University of Oslo - Department of Mathematics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Metadata: University of Oslo - Department of Mathematics
University of Oslo - Department of Mathematics: Oslo, NO Language
This is the home page of the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo.
www.mathguide.de /cgi-bin/ssgfi/anzeige.pl?db=math&nr=000016&ew=SSGFI   (64 words)

  
 The Viking Ship Museum Norway Directory
As burial ships, carrying the dead over to “the Other World”, the ships were equipped with unique treasures such as wagons, horses and especially textiles which are seldom preserved from the Viking age, now on exhibit at the museum.
The Viking Ship Museum and The Historical Museum form the University Museum of Cultural Heritage under the University of Oslo.
The Bygdøy ferries goes from Rådhuskaia (near Oslo City Hall) to Dronningen during the summer.
www.norway.com /directories/d_company.asp?id=671   (298 words)

  
 Clark University | Economic Geography Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Professor Angel received a B.A. in geography from Selwyn College, Cambridge University, England, in 1980, and a Ph.D. in geography from UCLA in 1989.
Professor Bjørn T. Asheim is a professor in human geography (economic geography) both in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at the University of Lund and at the Centre for Studies of Technology, Innovation and Culture and the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Oslo.
Amy K. Glasmeier is professor of geography and regional planning at The Pennsylvania State University, where she also directs the Environmental Inquiry minor designed to broaden students’ knowledge of key global environmental issues.
www.clarku.edu /econgeography   (570 words)

  
 HEEM
The intensifying use of ICT in higher education.
In cooperation with the other Hedda partners, the University of Aveiro, the University of Oslo and the University of Tampere are offering a joint, two-year Master Programme in Higher Education.
Not only are the students able to study the field of higher education as taught by the leading edge of European researchers within this field, they are also given the oppertunity to experience three different university systems first hand.
www.uv.uio.no /hedda/masterprogramme/heem.html   (297 words)

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