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The Research Days 2014 is arranged by Volda University College from 19th-23rd September. This year the audience can participate in jazz seminars, experience a Pecha Kucha night at the student house Rokken, or taste traditional Norwegian food at the Volda Bygdetun museum. The program also includes a number of interesting lectures and seminars, held by faculty members at Volda University College.

We are pleased to invite you to our festival 18-21th September at Samfunnshuset.

International Office at Volda University College (VUC) arranges a trip to Geiranger every autumn. This year 80 international students joined the bus and ferry ride to the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Geiranger.

«Quality is just as important as quantity in higher education, and this university college, albeit the largest higher education institution between Bergen and Trondheim, is really something special with regards to quality» - said Member of Parliament and VUC alumni Fredric Holen Bjørdal in his opening speech.

The films «The Christmas of Soland and Ludvig» and «Light Fly, Fly High» were among the winners of the Amanda Award at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund.

This year’s Buddy Week will take place August 19-24 and has been given the theme «Adventurous Volda».

The application for a joint PhD degree between Volda University College and Molde University College has been approved. This was decided by the national quality assurance body, NOKUT, on June 19th. The first students will be able to start in the autumn semester 2015, at the earliest.

Jane Austen's worldwide popularity is not least due to the remaking of her novels for the visual media. Of the fifty-odd Austen related productions since 1938, forty-three of them adapt her novels to the various screens of cinema, television, computer and tablet. In the present book, Marie N. Sørbø investigates the function and targets of irony in two novels and seven films.

For three days 17 journalism students from Volda, Stockholm and Nizhny Novgorod in Russia have taken part in a workshop to learn about multicultural understanding and human rights.

Volda University College are looking forward to welcome next years international students! The application deadline for incoming exchange students for fall 2014 is coming up the 15th of May. We welcome potential students to send in the application documents before this date.