Velferdsvillaen

Velferdsvillaen.org is a webpage created in 2006 by a group of Nordic youth, Nordisk Ungdomspanel, founded by Norway's formanship in the Nordic Council of Ministers, intended to educate Nordic teenagers AbOUT the welfare system in the Nordic Countries. The webpage uses Flash to demonstrate a house, but each room contains facts about the Nordic Countries and interactive games and quizzes made to introduce the North in an interesting way.

The villa

The Villa is a one floor house with a basement. The visitor is greeted by a so-called Welfare Ambassador, who invites the visitor to explore the rooms of the house. The Ambassador then follows you around the house and points out interesting things.

The rooms

Each room often has a theme. Here is a list of rooms and the main things inside them.

Kitchen

• Theme: Environment
• Main Things:
  • A freezer that can be opened.
  • Garbage-sorting.
• Post it's on:
  • Nordic food
  • Waste recycle in Åland

Living Room

• Main Things:
  • Interviews with Nordic youth.
  • Nordic Youth Panel song
• Post it's on:
  • Voting
  • Culture
  • Elections
  • Religion
  • Icelandic Parliament

Office

• Theme: Nordic Collaboration, information on the Nordic Youth Panel
• Main Things:
  • The Mandate for Nordic Youth Panel
• Post it's on:
  • Foreign aid
  • Welfare
  • Economics
  • Nordic collaboration

Child's Room

• Theme: School System in the Nordic Countries
• Main Things:
  • The Nordic School System Train
  • Nordic grading system
• Post it's on:
  • PISA

Teen's Room

• Theme: Popular Nordic things, social security numbers
• Main Things:
  • Game on Nordic Social Security Numbers

Garage

• Theme: Sports
• Main Things:
  • Posters of Nordic football players
• Post it's on:
  • Sweden in Torino
  • Swedish football success
  • Ski sports
  • Bjørn Dæhlie

Parking lot

• Theme: Environment
• Main Things:
  • Quiz on Environment
• Post it's on:
  • Nordic carbon dioxide sequestration
  • Fuel cell-cars
  • CO₂ emission in the Nordic countries
  • Population Count

Bathroom

• Theme: Politics
• Main Things:
  • Political Quiz

Bedroom

• Theme: Population
• Main Things:
  • Nordic Country Memory Game
• Post it's on:
  • Use of Condoms in Finland

Basement

• Theme: The dark side of the North
• Post it's on:
  • Nuclear Power
  • [...] rate
  • Taxation on alcohol
  • Alcohol consumption

Hallway

• Theme: Historical Events in the Nordic Countries
• Main Things:
  • Pictures of historical events
  • Exit of the Welfare Villa

See also

• Nordisk Ungdomspanel
• Nordic Council of Ministers
• Nordic Countries
• Welfare

Sources

• www.velferdsvillaen.org1
• www.norden.org2