Photo: Mari Tefre/Svalbard Globale frøhvelv

Svalbard Global Seed Vault secures future seed

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This year it is five years since the first boxes of seeds from food crops were carried into the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Today, more than 770,000 different seed samples are deposited in the vault for long-term storage.

Photo: Polio Global Eradiction Initiative.

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Polio can be eradicated within the space of five to six years. Norway is to increase its level of support for efforts to eradicate polio by NOK 190 million, to NOK 240 million (USD 40 million).

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Through its international Climate and Forest Initiative, the Norwegian government aims at supporting efforts to slow, halt and eventually reduce greenhouse gas emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+). Since its inception in April 2008, the Climate and Forest Initiative has established a series of ground-breaking partnership

The Ambassador Mr.Sjur Larsen gives a speech at the event.
Photo: Kristina Thoring.

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120 people came to the seminar on 'Women and the Economic Crisis: a challenge and an opportunity" held 10 April 2013 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens.

Photo: Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

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A new museum relating the thousand-year-long history of Poland’s Jews was recently opened in Warsaw. Norway has provided NOK 22 million in funding to the museum through the EEA and Norway Grants.

There will be a Nordic food table at the festival.

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Lady Ambassadors, Ambassador's Spouses Athens (LAASA) and the SOS Villages Greece invite you to the International Food Festival, to be held 26th May 2013.

Peace Player Dimitris Paixtaras.
Photo: Sevki Pirlanta.

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Cyprus first ever integrated basketball team, comprised of six Greek Cypriot and six Turkish Cypriot boys, competed at the Norwegian youth basketball tournament, the Hansa Cup - and won a superb second place! Read and see pictures from their eventful journey, which included a visit to the Nobel Peace Center, living with host families and making new friends.

Project promoter Kiki Boyiadji from The Association for the Prevention and Handeling of Violence in the Family (SPAVO) here together with Lone Johansen and Kari Mette Fjell from the Norwegian Secretariat of the Shelter Movement, partner in the implementation of this project.
Photo: Christian Grotnes Halvorsen.

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Cyprus gets its first specially designed shelter for women of domestic violence and their families. The shelter will be built with the support from EEA and Norway Grants and the Norwegian Secretariat of the Shelter Movement, partner in the implementation of the project.

Daniel Gingerich, University of Virginia and IDB Visiting Scholar, presented “The Measurement and Diagnosis of Pulic Sector Corruption” at the 'Anti-Corruption Week' in December 2012.
Photo: Inter-American Development Bank.

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Norway is to provide NOK 30 million in support for the Inter-American Development Bank’s efforts to promote transparency and combat corruption.

Svalbard Global Seed Vault secures future seed

Norway provides NOK 240 million to efforts to eradicate polio

Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative

Fruitful seminar on 'Women and the Economic Crisis'

70 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

International Food Festival

Successful Norway-trip for the PeacePlayers-Cyprus basketball team

New shelter for women of domestic violence in Cyprus

Norway increases its support for efforts to combat corruption in Latin America

Norway - the official site in Greece