Mødesteder med aktiviteter som metode
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Meeting places using activities as a method
Young people meet other young people who are volunteers. They do various activities together, including cooking, board games, and going on outings, among others. The volunteers create a safe framework in which young people experiencing loneliness can be together with other young people who feel the same way. Here they practise just being ordinary young people together through social activities, and the volunteers constantly make sure it is a pleasant and developing space.
What it sets out to do
To create safe communities where young people get a social practice ground
Who it reaches
Nationwide – 20 locations in Denmark
Who runs it
Ventilen (The Valve), which is an NGO
What seems to make it work
Young-to-young – the volunteers are themselves young
A concrete framework and good training for the volunteers
Support from volunteer coordinators when things get difficult
How it is funded
Mixed funding – public and private
Moving it somewhere else
Yes, it could easily work elsewhere
Read the original in Danish
Unge møder andre unge, som er frivillige. De laver forskellige aktiviteter sammen, bl.a. madlavning, brætspil, tager på ture mv. De frivillige skaber en tryg ramme, hvor de unge med ensomhed, kan være sammen med andre unge, som oplever samme følelser. Her øver de sig i at være helt almindelige unge sammen med sociale aktiviteter, og de frivillige sørger hele tiden for, at det er et rart og udviklende rum.
What it sets out to do
At skabe trygge fællesskaber, hvor unge får en social øvebane
Who it reaches
Nationalt – 20 steder i Danmark
Who runs it
Ventilen, som er en NGO
What seems to make it work
Ung-til-ung – de frivillige er unge
En konkret ramme og god uddannelse af de frivillige
Støtte fra frivilligkonsulenter, når det bliver svært
How it is funded
Blandet finansiering – offentlig og privat
Moving it somewhere else
Ja, det kan sagtens virke andre steder
The record
- Lead organisation
- Ventilen, som er en NGO
- Target populations
- Children and young people
- Countries
- Denmark
- Evaluation status
- Internally evaluated
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Publication
- https://ventilen.dk/
- Contributed by
- Simone Bodholdt, direktør i Ventilen Danmark
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Simone Bodholdt, direktør i Ventilen Danmark (2026). Mødesteder med aktiviteter som metode. LONELY-EU Intervention Registry, entry LEU-015. https://buddyboss.silc-exchange.com/interventions/modesteder-med-aktiviteter-som-metode/
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