Vision Network official launch, Helsinki, February 2027
Vision Network official launch, Helsinki, February 2027
Host countries
Unique participants
Participations
Mobility projects
A youth exchange puts groups from four or five countries in one place for a week or two, working on a single theme — waste, migration, democracy, mental health — through workshops rather than lectures. You do not need experience, a degree, or money: travel, stay and meals are paid by the grant. What you need is to be between 18 and 30, legally resident in Finland, and willing to spend the first evening not knowing anybody.
Training courses are for youth workers, project leaders, and volunteers who already run something and want to run it better. They are shorter, denser, and built around a method you take home: facilitation, non-formal education design, inclusion work, digital tools, grant writing. Several of ours have no upper age limit, and the participants are usually the people who will be writing the next round of applications.
A solidarity project is designed and led by the young people doing it, and it happens where they live rather than abroad. GreenLink gave a group in Helsinki a garden to run. SUSTAIN taught new international students how Finland sorts its waste, and some of its participants went on to start Real Girls Talk: Grow & Glow.
Placements run from our office on Sturenkatu and with partner organisations in Helsinki, between one and six months, and the work is genuine — communications, project coordination, events, grant administration. Most placements pair that with structured workshops on the skills the work exposes. There is no cost to take part, and our working language is English.
Not everyone who walks into the office is looking for a flight. We sit down with people one to one on housing, Kela, studies, Finnish courses, recruitment, workplace problems, and residence questions — on weekdays, in English, at no cost. It is the least photogenic thing we do and, for the people who use it, often the most useful.
Most projects are open to 18 to 30 year olds legally resident in Finland, and training courses often have no upper age limit. You do not need previous experience or a qualification, and everything runs in English.
Nothing. Travel, stay and meals are paid by the grant. There is no application or participation fee. If anyone asks you to pay to join one of our projects, tell us.
New calls appear on our Open Call page and on Instagram and LinkedIn. Register your interest there so we can contact you.
No. The working language on every project is English. Much of our team arrived in Finland as newcomers themselves, and if you want to learn Finnish, pointing you at courses is one of the things individual guidance covers.
That is who the programmes are for. The application is a short form and a few sentences about your motivation — no CV gymnastics — and we meet you before you travel so you know at least one face in the room.
Yes. United Vision can act as the applicant or coordinator, with your organisation as a partner, while you build your own experience. Small-scale partnerships exist specifically for organisations new to Erasmus+.
Everyone working with minors is briefed on safeguarding before each activity. Our safeguarding lead, Eman Talat (second: Mozhdeh Ghanbarimobarakeh), can be reached throughout. Reports are confidential, and zero-tolerance behaviour means immediate removal from the activity.
We will point you to projects that fit, or tell you honestly if none do. Organisations are welcome too.
Please fill in your details to secure your place. We will send a confirmation to your email.
