Here you will find information about studying in Norway - about what you can study and where you can study.

Here you will find information about words and terms that is often used by important community area. It can also be at help if you should work or study in another nordic country.

Financial assistance is a temporary form of income. The objective of this type of benefit is to help you manage on your own as soon as possible. Before you can qualify for financial assistance you must consider every other possibility for you to provide for yourself. This could include employment, other means of income or using your own savings. 

As a common rule, you can not get unemployment benefit if your are a student. But there is some exceptions. If you wish to keep your unemployment benefit while you are a student, you have to apply for it. Read more about unemployment benefit and education on Nav.no

You are entitled to sickness benefit (sykepenger) from the 17th day of absence. For the first 16 calendar days, you can receive sickness benefit if you have taken out insurance.

Your Europe is an EU site designed to give help and advice for EU nationals and their family. This includes advice for moving, living, studying, working, shopping or simply travelling abroad.

The Service Centre for Foreign Workers (SUA) is a centre where the Labour Inspection Authority (Arbeidstilsynet), the Police (politiet), the Tax Administration (skatteetaten) and the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI) work together towards foreigners arriving to Norway for employment purposes, with the aim of providing them appropriate guidance and a shortening of the time used for processing their applications. You will find information in Norwegian, English, Lithuanian, Polish and Russian.  

Workinnorway.no is a guide for job seekers from the Nordic countries, as well as countries within and outside the EU/EEA area, who want to work in Norway. The website also provides advice for Norwegian employers wishing to recruit foreign workers.

The food database shows the nutritional value per 100 grams of edible food. The tabel has data about more than 1400 raw food items, products, prepared food items and dishes. The food items are placed in eleven main categories and associated sub-groups. You can select and compare the nutritional value of food items.

A free a diet tool from the Norwegian Directorate of Health and the Norwegian Food Safety Authority which allows you to compare the energy and nutritional content of food items, and to compare the energy and nutritional content with dietary recommendations.