Cold Weather Seminar 2007 - "The cold and wet environment" The annual Cold Weather Seminar is to be held at Elverum, in the period of 4th to 7th of December 2007. 30.10.2007  > Read more

2007 - 2008 Courses The Centre of Excellence for Cold Weather Operations (COE-CWO) annually invites allied nations to participate on various winter courses. 14.05.2007  > Read more

EODEX 2008 EODEX is a Norwegian combined live exercise that will take place in Tromsø area in the northern part of Norway in the weeks 6 and 7, 2008. 02.05.2007  > Read more

Testing new vehicles in cold climate PORSANGMOEN: The German Bundeswehr is this winter testing new vehicles under arctic conditions. The testing takes place in Porsanger in the period of 22. January – 9. February. A total of 7 different vehicles are tested. 08.02.2007  > Read more

- An important contribution to Nato GARDERMOEN: The northern climate makes norwegians experts on cold conditions. Now the experiences are shared with the other Nato-countries. 08.12.2006  > Read more

Sharing experiences on cold weather GARDERMOEN: 65 participants from ten countries are now learning about cold weather operations in Norway. 07.12.2006  > Read more

Royal Netherlands Marine Corps Training in Finnmark From the beginning of September to the middle of October there have been approximately 500 men from the 1 Bn RNLMC conducting mountain training in Porsangmoen and Halkavarre ranges. 11.10.2006  > Read more

Cold Weather Seminar 2006 The first annual Cold Weather Seminar is to be held at Gardermoen, Oslo, in the period of 5th to 8th of December 2006. 03.10.2006  > Read more

2006 - 2007 Courses The Centre of Excellence for Cold Weather Operations (COE-CWO) annually invites allied nations to participate on various winter courses. 02.10.2006  > Read more

Special Forces Winter Warfare Course During the hectic weeks of February the Special Forces Winter Warfare Course was arranged for the first time. 18 hopeful students met at Terningmoen at the quartermaster store the 01 of February to be handed complete Norwegian gear. 15.05.2006  > Read more

NATO Avalanche Warning Course 2006 COE-CWO directed the first NATO Avalanche Warning Course with officially international participation 15-23 february 2006. The course was held in the vicinity of Setnesmoen camp in Åndalsnes. Twelve students from different NATO-countries participated. 23.03.2006  > Read more

Reading avalanches SKJOLD: Surrounding the garnison at Skjold in Northern Norway, the mountain peaks stand tall, posing meter thick layers of white avalanche forces. In other words, the participants on the avalanche course have plenty of material to analyse. 01.03.2006  > Read more

Heroes of RAF The "Heroes of Telemark" still interests airborne units all over the world and this winter 2 Squadron RAF Regiment wanted to study and experience some of the happenings from Rjukan 63 years ago wich had such a great influence on the outcome of the atomic race during the second world war. 14.02.2006  > Read more

Allied Officers Winter Warfare Course The cold weather courses that COE-CWO has invited for in 2006 are in progress.The Allied Officers Winter Warfare Course (AOWWC) started last week with 33 students from 9 different nations. This course is the first of 4 courses arranged this year by The Norwegian School of Winter Warfare (NSWW) on behalf of COE-CWO. 09.01.2006  > Read more

DUTCH MARINES AT MOUNTAIN TRAINING ONCE AGAIN In rain, wind, fog, snow and a few flashes of sun, Dutch marines have once again conducted Mountain Training based from Åsegarden Camp on the edge of Harstad. 25.10.2005  > Read more

Norway Signs Agreement for Centre of Excellence for Cold Weather Operations The formal agreement that commits Norway’s Centre of Excellence for Cold Weather Operations has been signed by the Minister of Defence Kristin Krohn Devold and SACT admiral Edmund Giambastiani. 12.08.2005  > Read more

REPEATING LAST YEARS SUCCESS Royal Netherlands Marine Corps did last week preparation for mountain training at Allied Training Centre North for the coming autumn, repeating last year’s success. 27.06.2005  > Read more

Cold Weather Courses 2005/ 2006 Updated overview Cold Weather Courses 2005/2006 06.06.2005  > Read more

Avalanche Hazard Warning a Niche Capacity of Interest to Norway’s Allies Allied Mountain Leaders have for the first time partisipated together with Norwegian officers at the Norwegian Avalanche Hazard Warning Course in the Troms Region. 26.04.2005  > Read more

The Norwegian Army and Home Guard supported United States Marine Corps with Winter Instructors during Exercise Battle Griffin 2005 22.04.2005  > Read more

Centre of Excellence-Cold Weather Operations established The Centre of Excellence for Cold Weather Operations (COE-CWO) has been established as an interim organisation from 1. August 2004. A permanent organisation will probably be established from 1. August 2005. 02.11.2004  > Read more

Cold Weather Operations 01.11.2004  > Read more

Understanding the Mountains - Avalanche Hazard For the first time since it was first launched at the end of the eighties, the Avalanche Hazard Warning Course will be offered to allied students (of officer’s or sergeant’s rank). On the 2005 winter course 4 seats out of a total of 16 are indeed earmarked for foreign students. The course will take place in the mountain areas of Troms, where conditions are good for assessing avalanche hazards as avalanches tend to happen frequently on these mountains in spring. 01.11.2004  > Read more

Foreword Forword to the Centre of Excellence for Cold Weather Operations from the Minister of Defence 01.11.2004  > Read more