receive a scholarship of NOK 100,000, split over two
years, as support for their Master's degree course.
Scholarship recipients are linked to one of the
companies which have entered into a partnership
with Alarga. The Master's degree student is assigned
a mentor in the partner company and offered
summer jobs during the course of the scholarship
period. At Telenor we have been very pleased with
"our" Alarga scholarship students, and many of them
have moved into standard permanent employment
with us once their time as Alarga scholarship
students was over.
Supporting Alarga is part of our strategic focus on
international expertise. At Telenor we believe that
Norwegian workplaces cannot afford to overlook
highly qualified professionals from minority
backgrounds. Our partnership with Alarga is part of
a wider context. On another page in this report you
can read about the Telenor Integration programme,
which aims to support highly qualified first-
generation immigrants in entering employment. We
want the Telenor Norway employment community
to benefit from the diversity which can be found
among highly qualified employees in today's
Norwegian employment market. As of 2012 there
were 27 different nationalities represented in
Telenor Norway's workforce. As one of Norway's
major employers we have experienced that such
breadth can help to boost our competitiveness.
For us cultural diversity is a competitive advantage,
not just a topic for after-dinner speeches.
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