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Cuban Ambassador to Norway receives the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Havana

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.

Norwegian Social Work students do work training in Havana

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.

Member of the Norway-Cuba Friendship Association visits the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP)

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.

The cooperation between the National Union of Communications, Computing and Electronics Workers of Cuba and the Postal and Finance Union of Norway moves forward.

Oslo, February 18, 2025. Within the framework of the existing relations of friendship and cooperation between the National Union of Communications, Computing and Electronics Workers of Cuba  (SNTCIE) and the Postal and Finance Union of Norway, a delegation of this Norwegian trade union, headed by Cathrine Sæther Ertsås, its vice president, is in Havana these days.

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