Do you want to be a volunteer?
 The Peace Institute works with volunteers within the European Voluntary Service, EVS. We are both a hosting and a sending organisation. The EU-funding for EVS voluntary projects is administrated by the National Agencies, in Finland by the Center for International Mobility, CIMO. This means that we only can send youth from Åland (Finland) as volunteers.
We can help you, if you are from Åland/Finland, to find a suitable project. We will apply for funding for your travel costs and we will help you with all the practicalities for the voluntary job. We will keep in contact with you, as well as with your host organisation, during your voluntary placement abroad. We can also apply for money for an advance planning visit to the host organisation, and travel there together with you. It is important and useful for all the three parties to meet before the job begins.
As a hosting organisation we usually have one volunteer each year. Our previous volunteers have come from France, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland (UK), and Poland.
The Peace Institute wishes to deepen the already existing contacts with the neighbouring countries, in particular the Baltic countries, the Kaliningrad region (Russia) and the Caucasus region. Priority shall be given to EVS-candidates from Latvia, Lithuania, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Kaliningrad.
We host volunteers between 18 and 30 years old, who are interested to work within the areas of interest of the Peace Institute (please look at our homepage to be more familliar what we work with).
Our hosting project focuses on peace work and especially autonomies, minorities, demilitarisation, gender equality, and similar issues. Our volunteers help us with organizing events, web-page updating, writing articles, keeping contact with our partners and other activities which are included in our projects. Very often their special language skills are very beneficial for the organization.
We will be hosting one volunteer from summer 2011 until summer 2012. A new volunteer will be recruited in December 2011. If you come from any country mentioned above, would want to be a volunteer from summer 2012 until summer 2013 and your interests matches with ours you are welcome to apply for the vacancy to
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in November 2011.
Here are our latest volunteers:
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Jeanette Mauricio is a journalist and has been a volunteer at the Peace Institute from 05.08.2010 to 31.05.2011. At the Peace Institute Jeanette has worked with supporting activities related to communication and gender issues. Jeanette has a Master's degree in human rights, another Master's degree in gender studies from Complutense University in Spain, and a Bachelor's degree in journalism from National University San Marcos in Peru.
She has previously worked in different mass media and in the press office of the public administration for youth issues. Jeanette speaks Spanish, English and French.
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Lukrecija was an EVS volunteer at the Peace Institute from August 2010 to June 2011. She comes from Lithuania and has a bachelor degree in Scandinavian (Swedish) philology from Vilnius University. The Swedish language, literature and culture were her main subjects. Lukrecija is very interested in languages, cultures and psychology and what is more, she is passionate about human rights issues. These are some of the reasons why she came to Åland to work at the Peace Institute. Her main responsibility has been the youth program, to keep contact with the neighbouring countries and especially with Lithuania. She speaks Lithuanian, Swedish and English.
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Linda Johansson was working as a volunteer in Sarajevo from 15 August, 2010. You can find her impressions (in swedish) about her EVS here.
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Kamala Ramazanova from Azerbaijan was a volunteer at the Peace Institute from 27.07.2009 to 31.05.2010. Kamala is a journalist and previously worked as a reporter covering the foreign policy of Azerbaijan in ANSPress news agency. At the Peace Institute Kamala will mainly work with the creation of a network for co-operation on youth work between Åland and Azerbaijan. Her impressions about EVS can be download here.
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Tamara Grigoryeva was a volunteer at the Peace Institute 05.11.2008-02.02.2009. She is a journalist and has previously worked as a reporter covering the foreign policy of Azerbaijan for French news agency AFP and Azeri news agency APA. At the Peace Institute Tamara will mainly work with the creation of a network for co-operation on youth work between Åland and Azerbaijan.
Tamara has written a text about herself, on her thoughts on journalism and her expectations of her stay on Åland. This text can be downloaded here.
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From 2nd of November 2008 to 31st of August 2009 Nina Westerholm from Mariehamn, Åland, is a volunteer in Greece. Nina is staying in Glyfada near Athens and helps with saving injured sea turtles within the organisation Archelon. Read about her adventures (in Swedish) in her blog.
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Miquel Jordi Diez i Perez worked as a volunteer at the Peace Institute from March to December 2007. He comes from Elche (Alicante). Miquel has a degree in Political Science and Administration from the University of Granada.
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Linda Karlsson has been a volunteer in Vilnius, Lithuania, where she worked at the Shelter for kids, Mintis. Linda is studying at the Uppsala university. Linda's midterm report (in Swedish)
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Jenny Lindgren has been a volunteer in Salzburg in Austria at the organisation Akzente Salzburg, where she worked at a kindergarten. Jenny's midterm report (in Swedish)
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There are many young people from Åland who are looking for interesting projects. We receive information about free voluntary places in different countries. Are you interested? Contact
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