Oslo, March 17, 2025. Last Saturday, the Norway-Cuba Friendship Association held its Annual Meeting. A new board was elected for the period 2025-2026. Olga Valentina Osses became the new president and Pauluis Eidukas, the new vice president.
Oslo, March 11, 2025. A delegation from the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions in Oslo (LO i Oslo), headed by Ingunn Gjerstad, is in Havana these days, within the framework of the relations of friendship and cooperation that it has with the provincial committee of the Central Workers’ Union of Cuba (CTC) in the Cuban capital.
Oslo, February 28, 2025. The Ambassador Maité Rivero Torres received Alejandro Sánchez Castellanos, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana, a few hours before his return to Cuba at the end of a stay of several weeks in Norway as part of the cooperation project “Ecological Connections: Cultural Studies in Cuba and Norway” (ECOCON), existing between the University of Havana and the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) in Bø.
Oslo, Februaryt 27, 2025. In a note published on its Facebook account, the Sociology Department of the University of Havana reported that for the third consecutive year it has received Social Work students from the Norwegian University of Stavanger (UiS).
For 5 months, those students are doing work training at the Convent of Bethlehem and the Integral Transformation Workshop in the Jesús María neighborhood, in the capital´s municipality of Old Havana.
Activities with children and elderly of the neighborhood contribute to their training.
Oslo, February 26, 2025. Lars Øvergaard, member of the Norway-Cuba Friendship Association, who is currently making a research stay at the “Enrique José Varona” University of Pedagogical Sciences, visited the headquarters of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), where he was received by Rigoberto Zarza Ross, director of the Division for Europe, and Elizabeth Ribalta Rubiera, desk officer of the Northern Europe Group.