- We would like to have a TVIBIT club for youths in Kirkenes, says Kyrre Martila from PIPE. Last Friday was PIPE, the children and youth committe and representatives from Sør-Varanger Municipality and Finnmark county council at a studytrip to the youth house called TVIBIT in Tromsø. Tromsø is the capital of the Northern part of Norway, a university town with 60.000 inhabitants. The whole press release can be read in Norwegian only.

The management team visits Pipe projects in the high north of Europe

The PIPE youths at Kirkenes upper secondary school have been invited to participate at an exciting art-seminar in Kirkenes this month. The seminar is named "The world`s most northern railway, Kirkenes" and will be held in the old railway houses on the hill above the city.

The picture shows polar light above the old mines in Bjornevatn, Kirkenes.

This website will give an account of all interreg-projects which Norway participates in. The pipe-project is described in fairly good detail, and they have also linked our website to theirs.

On Tuesday we presented our work in the City Council. Read what happened here.

Look at this winter foto of Kirkenes seen from the sea. We think something could be done to make Kirkenes a nicer city to live in and to visit.

Tuesday 18th of March the PIPE students at Kirkenes vgs will present some ideas to the municipality council of Sør-Varanger. Read about what they are working with...

The politicians in Sør-Varanger want to increase the population from 10 000 to 12 000 people. Is it possible?

Can Kirkenes town be Finnmarks answer to the London Dockside or Aker Brygge? An entusiastic group of youths from 7 different countries have studied, analysed and proposed a future vision for Kirkenes town.