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Letters of the President

October Letter 2026

Autumn is upon us. Here in the North, daylight steadily diminishes to be exchanged with dusky evenings and darker nights. This is the time of year when hunters hit the woods for moose hunting, fishing people are trapping Atlantic lobster, and farmers deliver their...

September Letter 2026

September letter 2026At the beginning of this month, including the International Sexual Health-day we, my wife and colleague Elsa Almås and I, spent some exiting days at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa. The occasion was the second meeting of the WSHA,...

August Letter 2026

August letter 2026 It lights up at night     From selected windows in a tall building in Oslo, the lights are on, and when darkness arrive, the word «TILLIT» stands out in all its splendour. TILLIT means TRUST. How extremely interesting then that this piece...

May Letter 2026

Im wunderschönen Monat Mai,Als alle Knospen sprangen,Da ist in meinem HerzenDie Liebe aufgegangen. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai,Als alle Vögel sangen,Da hab’ ich ihr gestandenMein Sehnen und Verlangen.In the wondrous month of May,When all the buds burst into bloom,Then...

April Letter 2026

April letter 2026   Once I had a conversation with the volcano Hekla at Island. The two of us compared strengths. In the beginning she found this utterly strange and said: I change the surface of the globe, by me the mountains disappear and hills arise where prior no...

July letter 2025

July letter 2025 I have experienced that winds can carry Sahara-sand all the way to Croatia. Ships can sail around the globe by assistance of the winds, and even planes can fly by wind alone.   Winds can sooth our worried souls Wind can tear the castles of the rich...

June 2025 letter

June letter 2025 Rainbow flags are flying, parades move through villages, towns and cities. Love is in the air, nature blooms, our garden is swarming with buzy bees, wasps and bumblebees, the strawberry jasmin lets its wonderful fragrance find its way to our nostrils....

May Letter 2025

May letter 2025   We call it the beautiful month of May here where I do stay. We the Norwegians celebrated our Day of Independence on May 17th . Happy children, free children in multiple outfits paraded our streets cheering with joy, waving handheld flags and...

March Letter 2025

March letter 2025   March in the North is the time when Nature in a tense span of time moves from ice to melt. Spectacular beauties rise from the soil, rivers and creeks are flooding and birds sing serenades to the morning sun. Some things happen also within our...

April Letter 2025

April letter 2025   April is the month of natural “resurrection” on the Northern hemisphere. Birds and insects are alive and rejoicing. Hibernating bears are peeping out of from their winter dwellings, taking in the odours from the awakening forests. Nature seems...

February letter 2025

February letter 2025   In Europe, spring is both hesitating, budding and blooming all depending on where you dwell on the European continent. Even in Norway, the rays from the sun add a little warmth to our cheeks. This yearly joy brings energy and vitality. EFS...