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Open positions at Eikholt
We are looking for a new colleague. Are you the right person, or do you know someone who would like to work at Eikholt? We need a counsellor/senior counsellor within mental health. You can read more about the position and apply here.
Svein is committed to social policy
Svein Fossum lives in Hønefoss. He is known for his involvement in socio-political issues and is therefore not completely unfamiliar with the political world. He is one of the participants in the group course who has discussed and prepared topical issues for meetings with politicians in Parliament. Here he gives you an insight into what such a group course can contain and how he helped to prepare and provide input to politicians from several parties.
Eikholt Conference 2025 Orientation and Mobility - The Way Forward
Do you meet people with visual and hearing impairments? Do you and they need to know about developments in orientation and mobility? What can we learn from sharing experiences? The Eikholt conference aims to highlight new knowledge and showcase opportunities in orientation and mobility.
What are filter glasses and how do you get them?
"Now it's good to have filter glasses". These are the words of Astrid Helene Furulund. She is an active lady with a combined visual and hearing impairment. Astrid has been wearing filter glasses for the past five years. She thinks more people should have access to them. But what are filter glasses and how do you go about getting them?
User survey 2025 has been sent out
Today, 13 January 2025, a user survey will be sent out to everyone who received NAV adaptation courses from Eikholt in the last half of 2024. The user survey is anonymous. We hope that as many people as possible will take the time to respond.
Aashild, Turid and Ruchipa enter retirement
Three wonderful ladies, who have not only been colleagues, but also friends and supporters to many, are retiring from the New Year. Their retirement is what we call a celebration of dedication for people with combined visual and hearing impairment.
Eikholt is looking for a counsellor/senior counsellor vision and mobility
We are looking for an employee who enjoys working with people and who can contribute to the professional work related to our rehabilitation/adaptation courses within vision and mobility. Read more about the position here:
The political system - election 2025 - Sondre is a lecturer
In 2025, a series of courses on "The political system - election 2025" has been organised. This is a course about the political system in Norway and the parliamentary elections in 2025.When is it clear that Sondre Varpe will contribute as a lecturer in these courses.
Eikholt test version 2.0, new features and improvements
The Eikholt test, which is used for audiovisual mapping of speech understanding, has undergone significant improvements this autumn. At the same time, the project has received important financial support that will contribute to the national dissemination of the test.
Borlaug - course building at Eikholt
The building at Eikholt is called Borlaug, named after Kirsten and Ole Borlaug's scholarship for deafblind people. In 2009, Eikholt received funding for the construction of the course rooms now known as Borlaug 1, Borlaug 2 and Borlaug 3.