Summit venue

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The City and the Venue:  

WORLD LEARNING SUMMIT 2016

KRISTIANSAND

• 85 000 inhabitants

• Globalised work life
• Harbour portal to continental Europe
• A new, growing university

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KILDEN CONCERT HALL

• 2nd largest Culture Events Venue in Norway

• Multifunctional: integrated opera, theater and symphony halls
• On the dock of the bay – spectacular

BEYOND KRISTIANSAND

• Gateway to the mountains

• Where modern life meets ancient culture
• Four hours from the bottom to the top

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LOCAL, INTERNATIONAL, AND OPEN

South Norway is the location for the 2016 World Learning Summit, and with it comes centuries of international contacts with Europe, Russia, and the united States. Settlers went from here to Texas in the 1840’s. North of Austin, there is a small city called NORSE, wheee the famed Cleng Peerson lies buried. 

The city of Amsterdam is literally built on oak pillars from South Norway, as were Napoleon’s war ships. 

For centuries, Norway was in a Union with Denmark and then Sweden, leading to a deepening of relations between Norway and Denmark. Local speech in South Norway varies from dialects that have strong commonalities with Icelandic and the old Norse language, to trade relations connecting coastal cities to the world. 

Kristiansand was founded, on sand, by a Danish-Norwegian king, in 1645. 

It was there same king who gave his name to the capitol city of Oslo, formerly known as Christiania. 

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