Houens Odde Spejdercenter is the biggest scout centre in Northern Europe. It is owned by KFUM-Spejderne i Danmark - the biggest scout association in Denmark. The main ideas of our scout organisation is to educate children and youth through activities, learning by doing, and children teach children. By doing this we help developing children and young people in to becoming independent, honest, democratic and responsible adults who have respect for their surroundings, environment and nature. Our main activities are, therefore, mostly concentrated on nature and environment activities. Houens Odde Spejdercenter is the main training and education centre of KFUM-spejderne in Denmark. Houens Odde Spejdercenter uses therefore the same ideology as our scout organisation when training and hosting volunteers: learning by doing. The centre provides activities, food and lodging for costumers on training, camps or conferences. The guests at the centre come from schools, kinder gardens, and scout groups. Each year the centre has around 30.000 overnight guests on this account. We also provide activities , food, lodging and facilities for companies on training or conference. There are around 10.000 overnights guests on this account. Houens Odde Spejdercenter is partly run by a staff of permanent employees and by a staff of Danish and foreign volunteers. The jobs at the centre were divided into : - Daily jobs - Monthly jobs - Ad hoc jobs - Volunteer project The daily jobs needed to be done every day, and they were: - garbage round. - toilet check and cleaning. - buying food for the office canteen. The monthly jobs needed to be done, depending on the season, once or twice a month. They were: - building check. - check rat boxes. - grass cutting. - checking and cleaning tractors/cars. - cleaning different workshops. The ad hoc jobs were very different. They came day by day, hour by hour. Some were be planned in advance, others were not possible to plan. They were: - activities for our costumers(scouts, school groups, kindergardens, companies) - kitchen duties: cooking, cleaning, dish washing - helping janitor with different maintenance job at the centre - participating as a staff member in our scout summer camps or other scout events - participating in different volunteer arrangements together with the Danish scout volunteer staff The Volunteer Project The volunteers were given the possibility of making their own project. This is a very good chance for the volunteers to make something that afflects their interest and skills. The project had be to the use and fun of the costumers at the centre. We prefer that the project is for the benefit of nature and environment of our centre. The project must also make our costumers aware of the Eramus+ programme and the international outlet of the centre. It is important for us that the volunteers spend time on creating a project and thereby leaving their footprints at Houens Odde Spejdercenter! The project of Marius, from Germany, was two wooden boxes with out door games: croquet, frisbee, football, petanque, Kubb. The idea is that our guests and scouts can use the games when the weather is nice, and they want to have some fun together. The project of Franziska, from Austria, was to make some small activities for our costumers. The idea is that if our costumers need to fill out some estra time, they can try one of our "time-fillers". All the jobs were planned together with the volunteers and the permanet staff. There were 6 volunteers at the center at a time. The volunteers got the instruction in the tasks by the permanent staff. The project resulted in two young persons that growed and matured a lot. During their time here they became more mature, independent, self-secure, aware of different culures/countries, learn new skill, work in a team and be more aware of environment and nature. They also used the time to think about what the want to become in the future. Marius even had 14 days off, so he could go back to Germany, where he had got the opportunity to take an internship at a, perhaps, future work place. Marius is a German scout, and Franziska used to be a scout in Austrian. This was one of the reason for choosen them. The way of thinking as a scout is of course very important to us, since we are a scout centre. It was therefore very easy for Marius and Franziska to participate in the scout summer camps as a staff member. Thye also very easy made friends both with our Danish voluntary scout staff, but also with the children and the adults from the scout groups. Both Marius and Franziska also learned a lot of new skills, and they were important parts of our daily life at our centre. They gave a good impression to our scouts and non-scouts about EVS and about how important it is for young people to go abroad.