NSWW main task is to educate Norwegian and international officers of all branches in cold weather operations and survival.

NSWW supports exercises in Norway with avalanche warning teams and are able to support units training in Norway with winter instructors.

From 1 August 2007 the NSWW assumed responsibility for survival training in the Norwegian Army. We will conduct our first national and international survival courses in the autumn of 2008. The focus on the international course will be combat survival in typical arctic and mountainous terrain while the national course will be a full SERE (Survival - Evation - Resistance - Extraction) course.

NSWW is one of the key elements of the NATO Centre of Excellence – Cold Weather Operations (COE-CWO).

Our location in Terningmoen Camp, in the central parts of eastern Norway, gives us access to excellent training conditions. 3 large military exercise areas, with few restrictions, are available within a one-hour drive.