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The Youth Center Marttinen's restaurant hall and Marttinen's cafe will be renovated from 4 December 2023 to 1 February 2024. However, Marttinen serves all its customers with lunches, meals, Christmas meals, conferences, accommodation, sauna evenings, camps and schools camps as usual.

We are open during renovation, read more about that

In its 30 years of operation, Youth Centre Marttinen has developed into a high-level and competent centre that serves the youth industry versatilely, taking on a role as a regional, national and international player in the youth work field. The Steering Group of the Council of Europe's Youth Unit (CDEJ) has granted an extension for five years (2022–2026) to the Quality Label for Youth Centres that Marttinen received in 2018, recognizing that Marttinen has maintained and developed the criteria set by the Council of Europe in his operations and structures. Marttinen is one of the fourteen youth centres in Europe that meet the criteria of the quality label.

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It is important to understand that each child and young person is an individual, and their social backgrounds can vary greatly. This is why individualized and targeted support measures are needed to ensure that every child and young person has the best possible opportunities to grow up in a safe environment, healthy and happy.

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A team of partners from from Finland, Portugal, Spain, and Croatia lunched a new Erasmus Plus project.
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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

Marttinen is one of the youth centres funded and overseen by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture. Our diverse youth centre is situated in beautiful scenery in Virrat, Central Finland. Marttinen is 100 km from both Tampere and Seinäjoki, 115 km from Jyväskylä and just 270 km from Helsinki.

Marttinen is a pleasant and safe environment for camps, courses, training and other events the year round.

The historic milieu at Youth Centre Marttinen is home to both modern facilities for hosting larger
camps, seminars, conferences and training events as well as esteemed and picturesque venues for weddings and other important days.

We also provide hotel and log cabin accommodation for up to nearly 200 guests, and our catering kitchen offers professional menus for both conferences and parties.

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Are you familiar with Finnish Sauna? Don't worry. Finnish Sauna is for relaxing and we wanna that you enjoy your sauna experiement.

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"A memorable moment was when we organized a children’s field trip to a farm. We were just leaving and children were already in the bus, as we noticed they had lured a goat inside the vehicle. There we were, with a French guy trying to get the goat out from the bus; the French guy was pushing and I was pulling and steering the goat out." - EVS volunteer

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