Vision Network official launch, Helsinki, February 2027
Vision Network official launch, Helsinki, February 2027
United Vision ry is a youth-led NGO in Helsinki. We run funded youth exchanges, training courses, volunteering and one-to-one guidance through Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps, with partners across Europe.
We are a registered association, founded on 13 September 2023, with our office at Sturenkatu 11 in Helsinki. We hold the European Solidarity Corps Quality Label for Humanitarian Aid Volunteering. Since 2023, 116 young people have taken part 160 times in 43 projects across 18 host countries. A youth-led board of 7 members and 2 deputies leads the work, with 4 paid staff and more than 1,000 volunteers.
Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps fund a lot of youth mobility. Too little of it reaches the young people who need it most, because calls are in the wrong language and news travels through organisations many young people never meet. We exist to close that gap.
Nothing. There is no application fee and no participation fee.
Travel, accommodation and meals are paid from the project grant, within the limits each programme sets. If you confirm a place and cancel without a valid reason, our cancellation policy explains what may apply.
Everything international happens through partners who understand their own context far better than we could from Helsinki — youth organisations, universities, municipalities, and grassroots associations. They host, they send, and they co-write the applications with us.
We would rather you checked than took our word for it. United Vision ry is a registered Finnish association, and these are our official registrations.
101294063
E10340354
879194421
3389157-5
0972355103883-79
Six values written into our registered rules. They decide which projects we take on, who we go looking for, and how we run the work once it starts.
We stand against inequality in every form.
We make decisions, finances and procedures open to our members.
We stand with communities and act together.
Every voice counts, whatever your background, language, status or identity.
We speak up about problems, even when it is uncomfortable.
We take care of people, money and the planet, and we answer for our choices.
Our office is in Helsinki. Our work abroad happens through the Vision Network, partner organisations who know their own communities best.
Sturenkatu 11, 00510 Helsinki. Open Monday to Friday, 10:00 to 16:00. Internships, guidance and work try-outs run from here.
Partner organisations that send, host and plan projects with us.
There is no application fee and no participation fee. Travel, accommodation and meals are covered by the grant, within the limits the programme sets. Cancellation costs may apply only if you cancel a confirmed place without a valid reason.
Not to start. We can apply for or coordinate a project with you as a partner. To host or send European Solidarity Corps volunteers yourself you need your own Quality Label, and we can help you prepare it.
Tell your group leader or email info@unitedvision.fi. Everyone working with minors is briefed on safeguarding before each activity. Our safeguarding lead, Eman Talat (second: Mozhdeh Ghanbarimobarakeh), follows up every concern in confidence.
Please fill in your details to secure your place. We will send a confirmation to your email.
