Suomenlinna World Heritage Volunteers - Hands on Heritage, Info Page

TO DO

  • Read through the main info page carefully

  • Check that your passport is valid. Take your EHIC card with you (You can check this page to have more information about how to obtain the EHIC depending on your home country). It may take time to receive the EHIC so make sure you ask for it as soon as possible (You need  to send it to us when you fill the Participant Confirmation Form and to be able to participate to the project). If you're not eligible for EHIC, let us know!

  • Book your tickets as soon as possible! Please read the instructions below carefully. After booking your flights fill in the mandatory Participant Confirmation Form here.

  • Attend the two pre-departure trainings! Please take into account that it's mandatory, if you're not able to attend let us know. 

  • Join our Whatsapp group by clicking here

  • Read the infosheet prepared by the hosting organization carefully. When we receive it from the hosting organization, we will attach it here.

Info sheet 

can be found below.

Insurance

  • Henner insurance's checklist for volunteers

Information for planning the travel

Please organize the travel to the project well before the start date in order to be present in the project the whole duration: 31.7.-15.8.2025.

Note that  the first and last days (31.7 and 15.8) are travel days.

Travel reimbursement

Your maximum sum for travel reimbursement depends on the distance between your home town and project place. You have received your maximum sum for travel reimbursement by email.  The travel costs that exceed the maximum sum are paid by the volunteer. Also bus and train tickets can be reimbursed (for example when you need to travel from your home to the airport).

Travel expenses are paid when you have returned to your home country and sent us the travel reimbursement form to which you have attached all your travel documents (receipts, tickets, boarding passes). You need to send the form within 2 weeks after the project has ended. Since we go through all the travel documents one by one, it can take about 6-8 weeks to reimburse the travel expenses.