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March 1, 2023

Annual report for the Foundation The Ship Sørlandet i 2022

The 2022 financial year was a good year for the Foundation. The challenges of the pandemic could be put behind the organization and with a profitable subsidiary in A+World Academy, the foundation for further development with the ability to set aside funds for the large maintenance expenses that follow the world's oldest full rigger in full operation. See the attached annual report below.

January 1, 2023

Annual report 2021/2022 A+ World Academy GmbH

A+ World Academy GmbH was established in 2014 and the Foundation invested significant resources in developing a unique and competitive school program aimed at Norwegian and international students at upper secondary school level. The 2021/2022 school year also yielded a positive result, and since losses carried forward were covered, the company was in a tax position.

November 24, 2022

The foundation will soon have new offices

In connection with the premises that the Foundation The Ship Sørlandet will be converted into a transfomator station, we will move to Pier 6. There will be a temporary office solution close to the quay that the school ship Sørlandet uses when she is at home. - We expect to move in before Christmas," says Knut Arne Gjertsen, Director of the Foundation.

September 15, 2022

The sailing plan for the school ship Sørlandet in the 2022/2023 school year

The school ship Sørlandet sails this year with 64 new students from 9 different nations who attend A+ World Academy - the Foundation's wholly-owned subsidiary.

September 13, 2022

Tough days for students on the school ship Sørlandet

The students on the school ship Sørlamndet arrived at Vikkilen in Grimstad a little earlier than planned due to bad weather. Grimstad address newspaper had an article that they did not apply for emergency shelter which NRK picked up and covered on the district news the same day.

August 30, 2022

Goodbye Sørlandet

The school ship Sørlandet , the region's pearl, set out again voyage with 84 people on board on Monday 22 August. It is the sixth time she has sailed a school year with students who will complete their second year of high school at the exchange school A+ World Academy on board « Sørlandet ». She will return home on 3 June 2023.