Instructions for academic contact person on excursions and study trips abroad
- A contact person shall be appointed for the group.
- Both students and the Academic Services shall be informed of who this is.
- It is the contact person’s responsibility to make sure that all students hand in their declaration form.
- All students going on excursions with AHO must have insurance in order to travel.
- The contact person should make themselves familiar with the location of the closest Norwegian embassy in the destination area.
- The contact person should be available on a mobile phone that is operative in the destination area.
- The contact person shall provide the Academic Services with information on how they can be reached during the excursion.
- The contact person shall register the AHO emergency numbers on their phone. See the emergency preparedness plan.
- The contact person shall make sure that local emergency numbers are registered on their phone.
- The Norwegian Church Abroad has a free Emergency number app which gives you easy access to local emergency numbers.
- The contact person should strongly recommend Norwegian students to register at https://www.reiseregistrering.no/before the excursion.
- The contact person shall inform all students of necessary vaccines before the excursion. See The Norwegian Institute of Public Health for more information.