Stella Polaris is an independent theatre group founded in 1985 by Merete Klingen and Per Spildra Borg. Our productions span from small storytelling to big outdoor events. We are inspired by medieval theatre, combined with impulses of other cultures and times. We offer workshops in sircus and theatre skills, as well as storytelling. Our performances can be shown anywhere where there`s a crowd, -outdoor and indoor, day and night. At our base in Vestfold, we organize a youth group and a children?s theatre on a permanent basis. Most of our young staff live in a house provided by the company, and we live in a close community sentered around our theatre. Stella Polaris Opplevelser employ 8 people of all ages and nationalities. In addition we employ freelancers as needed for performances and for the past few years we have also hosted theatre students from Finland and Scotland. We organize workshops for young people and grown ups alike, and hold a one week summercamp with 150 children training for a large performance held on the last day of the course. This attracts more than 1000 viewers, and is an institution in our region. Stella Polaris has hosted volunteers the last 14 years. Our motivation in this work is to integrate young people of different backgrounds in our work, and to include sections from their different cultures in our work. Our ambition is that our organizastion should be international as far as people involved goes, and the EVS program is ideally suited for this kind of recruitment and goal. This year our original plan was to host 15 short term candidates through this program on a short term basis (A1), and aim to end their stay with us with a large outdoor performance based in Nordic mythology. As our possibility to house and provide for them in an adeqatemanner was limited, we ended up hosting 11 short term candidates, in addition to 3 candidates who stayed with us from August 2014 (A2)and ended their project with us as part of thelarger short term project. Our goal as far as the large outdoor performance was met, and our 3 performances at Gokstadhaugen in Sandefjord was viewed by approximately 1000 spectators from the region of Vestfold. All candidates were trained by our founders and skilled staff, and worked hard in the field of physical theatre for the duration of their stay. As the group session ended up engaging 11 mobilities in the short term project, some of the planned participating organisations were not sending candidates this time around. This concerns the sending organisations from Germany and Iceland. We had no candidates available for the short term project at the time of the project, and had to proceed with the candidates from the other participating organisations. Our goal is to create a network of young, talented people in various countries throughout Europe. We have experienced that many of our candidated establish long term relations based on their meeting at our theatre, and we have also recruited great talent from our earlier programs that have come back to work with us for longer and shorter periods. As our theatre enjoy av very good standing in the European community of independant theatres, many of our volunteers have used their experience with the program to get internships and work in the art field in other European countries.