Yesterday the PIPE project class at Notodden upper secondary school was in charge of a political debate. All seven local parties were questionned, and the PIPE future charter (PIPEplan for Notodden) was the background for the meeting. The parties are commenting on the youths initiative and many suggestions have a support from the politicial leaders.

In Notodden municipality’s intern newspaper there was an article about PIPE in December 2002.

In February 2003 students from Sweden visited Østfold. Together with student from Mysen and Askim upper secondary school they went out to take a look at Spydeberg, Askim and Eidsberg. The local newspaper covered the event.

Svein-Åge Lauritzen, lead partner, has written an article about the PIPE project in Profilen, an information newspaper about regional development in Norway. The article was published in December 2002. In the article Lauritzen present the project.

In the beginning of this year there was a debate going on in Telen, a local newspaper in Telemark, about whether Notodden should leave the PIPE project or not.