A quick word about AUP- they have a great cultural program that includes study trips for hands-on learning. I signed up to learn about sustanability and humanities while going to Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Norway's policies were just like the country itself: practical. Equality in Norway is very good. Oslo is clean, and the group of us enjoyed our tour of parlaiment and the national gallery. We learned about the Ombud, a person who leads a non-government agency to ensure all faireness in many matters. It left me pondering the correct responses to world chrises, and the best way to give back. On our free time, we enjoyed walking in the city. The air seemed to have a different quality than in Paris, and even the sunlight was crist and clean.
The Norweigan Nobel Peace Prize Committee- https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/
Parlaiment- https://www.stortinget.no/en/In-English/About-the-Storting/
Ombudsmen- https://www.sivilombudsmannen.no/?lang=en_GB
Denmark was even colder, and the language that much more unintelligeble to us. Having already established a small group of friends, I spend most free time exploring the restaurant scene in the nearby meatpacking district. In Copenhagen our focus moved more to International Law and Sustainable Business. We visited some university lectures and special présentations. At night we sat around the bright common room of our hostel, watching the night unfold by the window. The bikes in Denmark were impressive, to say the least. During every excursion we did not worry about cars. We had to be careful for the bikes instead. The last day in Denmark, and of the trip, was a free day. My friends and I sat at a cafe with a map, planing out the best route: canal tour, castle ruins, walking street, Hans Christian Anderson Museum.
International Law- http://www.un.org/en/sections/what-we-do/uphold-international-law/index.html
Sustainable Business- http://sustainablescandinavia.com/
The day trip to Sweden was wonderful. We took a train across the ocean, looking above the waves. Our only stop on the map was Malmo, which had created the world's first 100% sustainable neighbourhood. The busses ran on gas produced by garbage, and every building was designed to benifit others. Additionally, every view included water, art, or a garden. We were walked throught the design to transform the entire city, and the process of creating such a sustainable neighbourhood for a world show. Malmo also houses Sweden's first skyscraper, and Sweden's tallest skyscraper.
Sustainable Malmo- https://crcresearch.org/community-research-connections/climate-change-adaptation-and-mitigation/malm%C3%B6-sweden-integrating-pol
http://depts.washington.edu/open2100/Resources/1_OpenSpaceSystems/Open_Space_Systems/Malmo_Case_Study.pdf
http://www.energy-cities.eu/db/malmo_579_en.pdf
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