MOT Norway
MOT Norway has an 15-year track record as a leading non-profit organisation. MOT Norway gets its funding from the Government and major and minor collaboration partners within the private sector. Another important source of income is the program fee paid by local municaipalities and colleges.
Website: www.mot.no
MOT Norway’s office
MOT Norway has grown into an organisation with 25 employees, focusing on programme development and implementation, marketing, advertising and promoting the MOT brand. Currently they have 39 brand ambassadors, and in 2012, close to 576 MOT presenters are training more than 61 000 secondary and upper secondary students to live according to the MOT values; Courage to live, Courage to care and Courage to say no.
MOT Norway’s Board
Rune Bratseth |
Chairperson of MOT Norway’s Board. For many years, Rune was a famous professional soccer player in Germany, after which he accepted the position of manager at Rosenborg, Norway’s most famous soccer club. |
Johann Olav Koss |
World Champion and Olympic Champion in speed skating. Former member of the International Olympic Committee, founder and CEO of the organization “Right to Play”, and co-founder of MOT. |
Dag Otto Lauritzen |
Famous professional bicyclist who participated in the Tour de France a total of 8 times, winning a mountain stage in the Pyrinees in 1987. Dag currently works as a lecturer and also as a sports reporter for Norwegian television during major international bicycling events such as Tour de France. |
Roger Granheim |
CEO of Fosen Trafikklag, a major public transportation company listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. |
Atle Vårvik |
Atle is a former speed skater who competed in both the 1992 and 1994 Olympic Games. He is the co-founder of MOT and the current CEO of MOT Norway. |
| Marit Breivik | Former Norwegian team handball player and former head coach for the Norwegian women's national handball team. As coach she has lead the team to victory in the 2008 Olympic tournament, the World Women's Handball Championship in 1999 and four European Women's Handball Championships. |
| Astrid Loedemel | Former Norwegian alpine skier from Voss. Her best result in the World Cup is a second place in Vail, USA, 1992. The highlight in her career came in the World Championships 1993 in Morioka in Japan when she won a silver medal in the downhill and a bronze medal in the Super-G. |
