WEXFO UTØYA YOUNG EXPERTS
About the event
WEXFO Utøya Young Experts (WUYE) gathers young innovators, activists, and community leaders to highlight how young people locally and globally fight for freedom of expression. The seminar includes participation at the WEXFO 2025 conference in Lillehammer. WEXFO accordingly wants to ensure that young people’s perspectives, suggestions, and calls for action are clearly expressed and taken into account at the conference.
More information about the 2025 event will be announced closer to the seminar dates May 31 – June 4.
World Expression Forum will:
- be an inspiration internationally, nationally, and locally.
- be a hub, the central international meeting place for everyone who is concerned with freedom of expression.
- influence developments through reports and projects, discussions in the Forum and summary afterwards.
- share experiences, but especially search for best practices for improvement.
- seek cooperation with others to develop offers of Forum gatherings elsewhere as well.
- participate in developing the local cooperation in the region on freedom of expression, with
institutions such as the Norwegian Festival of Literature , Lillehammer UNESCO City of Literature and ICORN. - reflect diversity in the work and in the organization.
World Expression Forum (WEXFO) was established as an ideal joint stock company on 20 August 2021.
Norway is one of the countries in the world with the highest degree of freedom of expression, according to Freedom of Expression Index (Our World in Data). Lillehammer is a UNESCO City of Literature, an ICORN city of refuge for artists at risk, and is the host of the biggest literature festival in Scandinavia. Both the city, the region (Innlandet) and Norway as a country are committed to supporting freedom of expression around the world.
WEXFO wants to inspire progress for freedom of expression on all levels of society – internationally, nationally and locally.
