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The Green Key jury gathered on 9.12.2022 to evaluate the application of Marttinen to become a member of Green Key and eventually was awarded with the certificate. Green Key is the worlds leading environmental certificate awarded for tourism operators, which also represents the quality of operations. Green Key is a sign of successful work in the field of sustainability and responsibility and the criteria matches with the demanding expecations of the customers and partners operating with tourism services. Visit Finland also awarded Marttinen with the Sustainable Travel Finland -certificate, which makes us one of the few in Pirkanmaa region with the certificate. We in Marttinen have been working a lot for sustainable development and environment, and thanks to the certificate, our work will be recognised much more in the future.

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The Youth Centre in Marttinen is regularly visited by individual customers and groups from Southern Europe or outside Europe, and in that case the winter clothing at the starting point is not the same as in Virrat or in Finland. We want to help all our customers with tips to have a successful experience on their trip to us, so our ESC volunteers (ESC = European Solidarity Corps) Lada and Martin made a video about Finnish winter clothing to help those planning a camp or a trip to Marttien.

You can watch the video on Marttinen’ s YouTube channel, where you can choose the subtitles in Finnish or English. The spoken language of the video is English.

Watch the video on Marttinen's extranet or on YouTube channel

Whether you´re coming for a visit to Marttinen for a camp, camp school, vacation or you are looking to arrange a meeting, conference, parties or educational events you now can explore our island as a whole beforehand simply with your mobile phone or computer screen.

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Ireland outrech study visit gathered a group of Outreach youth workers from Pirkanmaa region. They got to see how outhreach youth work is done in Dublin and in more rural setting in Tipperary. During the study visit the group got to know about challenges in youth work in Ireland, but also about funding of youth work and about impact of youth work. Participants were espcially impressed about the overall community spirit and volunteer work for common good. Also professional development and learning were identified as outcomes from the vstudyvisit. The study visit was arranged by Marttinen Youth Centre and funded from Erasmus+ program.

Check out Marttinen’ s YouTube channel what their study trip was like in Ireland.

Emmi Sarvijärvi was given the opportunity to participate in a training course in Slovenia because of her practical training at Marttinen Youth Center.

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"There’s motivation from the young people, and money from the EU - Why aren’t we doing more of this?"

This was the question 22 Nordic youth workers worked to answer in May 2022 on an international study visit to Pirkanmaa, Finland.

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NEW EPISODE: In this episode Finland meets Ireland. We hosted visitors from @maynooth_university for a study visit in Pirkanmaa region to get to know about Finnish youth work. Thanks Peter and Denice for this reflective talk with Antti and of course all the participants. Welcome again!

Thanks also to all the places we got to visit @tampereuni @nuortensateenkaari @ohjaamotampere @pirkkalan_nuorisopalvelut @kolvitoiminta @verstas_sopimusvuoriry @nuortenkampus @ruovedenetsiva

Go to podcast by Youth Centre Marttinen on Spotify

Students gets -15% discount of our accomondation daily prices!

In Slice students app you will find a code which provides the discount for the reservation. We will check the student card during the check in.

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