Year-round line
Degrowth
A new world is undoubtedly needed.
To create a better world, we need an evolved worldview. This the course is for those who want to learn about eco-philosophy, practical crafts and love of nature. Turn off your cell phone and come!
We will forage, fish, grow, create, read, act, dance, discuss, invite, irritate and provoke.
"There are enough resources in the world to meet man's needs, but not his greed," Mahatma Ghandi is said to have said.
The consumption of resources for necessary and unnecessary purposes, people's sense of emptiness and the slow destruction of other species' and our own habitats; that's what this the course wants to do something about.
More about the course
Current topics and our approach
A love of the nature that surrounds us has first priority. Out on a hike, expanding our knowledge of species, asking questions and digging, staying overnight. Dialogue is best in the open air. By looking at the characteristics of our own society and comparing them with those of others, we at the course want to find real answers to today's challenges:
- Habitat reduction and destruction
- War and human rights
- Resource struggle
- Economic models and pitfalls
- The blurring between apparent and real needs (for energy and other resources)
- Journalism, media power and fake news, KI
- Democracy, strengths and weaknesses, alternatives
- The road ahead
Sources of inspiration can range from Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Arne Næss, Sigmund Setreng, Eva Jolie, Henry David Thoreau, Paulo Freire, Nils Faarlund, to Johannes Lid, Terje Tvedt, or Håkon Holien. Of course, we'll also get to meet some of these people in person. We will also study the boreal coniferous forest, of which there are some in Nord-Trøndelag.
Who is the line suitable for?
This is a newly launched course that is suitable for anyone who believes that the world is heading in the wrong direction. With overconsumption, environmental destruction and ever-widening gaps between rich and poor.
This is what you will learn
Science and inspiration
To be specific enough, we must take into account that we humans are playful, cultural and curious. So we should also be practical.
We will learn through crafts, fishing, gathering and hiking:
- quaternary geology
- plant sociology
- hydrology
- general ecology
- ecophilosophy
- journalism
- logic
- rhetoric
- economy
- And much more
Our expectations of you
We expect you to be curious, open and engaged in the world around you.
Study trip to in # weeks
At this the course we are short traveled.
The unique thing about folk high school is that you can learn about what you like - because you want to! We organized the teaching according to what we wanted to learn about. In the breaks, the discussion was loose. What is justice? Who has the power? It was incredibly inspiring!
Aurora Førland
Rainforest"The Rainforest Program offers great insight and wisdom about the world's best and worst contexts. This year was just as formative as five years at university, and I would never have done without it! It warms my heart to think back to the Sund days!
Sunniva Beitnes
RainforestStudents' annual plan Sund folk high school 2024-2025
The last day of the 2024-25 school year is Thursday, May 16, 2025.
Full-year line 2025-26
NOK 139 000,-
School fees include:
- Accommodation in a double room at Sund fhs
- All food at Sund fhs (four meals per day) - we don't charge extra for special diets, vegetarian or vegan food
- The study trip - academic program, accommodation, food and transportation are included
- Joint school trips and excursions
- Wireless internet, copying and printing for teaching
- Use of gym, training room, rehearsal room, photo studio, darkroom
- Use of washing machines and dryers
- Expenses for the vast majority of electives
- Transport in connection with training
- Administration fee at NOK 2 500,-
All lessons are free of charge.
School fees are not included:
Most of the materials we use in teaching are included. However, if you want to make something different/more/larger than what the teacher has planned, you must expect to pay for the extra equipment yourself.
- Deposit for key and use of equipment at NOK 1 300,-
- Single room supplement at NOK. 5 850,- (650 per month for 9 months)
- Pocket money for personal consumption
Loans and grants from Lånekassen
As a student on year-round programs at Sund folk high school , you are entitled to study support from the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund (if you are a Norwegian citizen).
In the school year 2024-2025, students will receive a total of NOK 137,900 in grants and loans from Statens Lånekasse. Of this, 40%, i.e. NOK 55,160, will be converted into a grant once you have completed the school year and had it approved. If you are a student on a half-year course, you will receive half the loan amount.
Read more about loans and grants atwww.lanekassen.no.
As soon as you have a place at Sund folk high school , you can apply for grants and loans atwww.lanekassen.no.
We do not have an application deadline and you can apply throughout the year. We start admitting students from November 15, and accept students as long as there is room at the course.
Admission criteria:
- Age limit 18 years, exceptionally 18 years before the study trip
- We accept students as long as there is room on the course you apply
- We focus on motivation and interests
Application:
- Send an online application
- We'll get back to you as soon as we can
- Write a little about yourself and why you want to join Sund
- It's a good idea to apply early, even if we don't start admissions until November 15.
Do you have any questions? Feel free to contact us '