Velferdsvillaen

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Velferdsvillaen
URL	http://www.velferdsvillaen.org
Type of site	Eduacational
Owner	Nordisk Ungdomspanel
Created by	Grimstaddesign, Magwerk[1], Nordisk Ungdomspanel
Launched	8th December 2006

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.

Contents 1 The villa 2 The rooms 2.1 Kitchen 2.2 Living Room 2.3 Office 2.4 Child's Room 2.5 Teen's Room 2.6 Garage 2.7 Parking lot 2.8 Bathroom 2.9 Bedroom 2.10 Basement 2.11 Hallway 3 See also 4 Sources

[edit] 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.

[edit] The rooms

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

[edit] Kitchen

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

[edit] Living Room

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Teen's Room

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

[edit] Garage

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Bathroom

• Theme: Politics
• Main Things:
  • Political Quiz

[edit] Bedroom

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

[edit] Basement

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

[edit] Hallway

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

[edit] See also

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

[edit] Sources

• www.velferdsvillaen.org[2]
• www.norden.org[3]