Who is Nysgjerrigper?
In Norwegian the name Nysgjerrigper is the equivalent to the English curious George. In other words, a person who wants to know about everything that is going on, and questions every topic.
Nysgjerrigper is an expression. Nysgjerrigper may naturally also be a girl. Boys and girls are equally strongly engaged in Nysgjerrigper?s activities.
The bulk of members are school classes, approximately 3 000 classes, which include 85 000 pupils. These and more than 2 700 school libraries, almost 2 000 individual members and a national network of science communicators, receive the science magazine and material from Nysgjerrigper at least four times a year.
The Nysgjerrigper project?s main goal is to promote researcher recruitment and awareness of research activities.
Click on the picture to the left to view a presentation video of Nysgjerrigper in English!
Last modified: 05.01.2006