Facts

About Fredskorpset

Fredskorpset arranges reciprocal exchanges of personnel between organisations in Norway and developing countries. Our objective is to contribute to lasting improvements in economic, social and political conditions in the world.
 
When people from different countries meet and get to know each other, this gives rise to knowledge, understanding and empathy… and the world gets smaller. That is why we give ordinary people the possibility to work for longer periods in a foreign country.
 
The exchange occurs in a partnership between two or more organisations or companies, with support from Fredskorpset. The aim is to promote the mutual exchange of knowledge, experiences and skills. This goes both ways: the organisation or company both sends and receives participants.
 
Fredskorpset is a public body answerable to the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and financed totally over the State Budget. For the year 2007, Fredskorpset has been allocated NOK 165 million. Over the past five years, about 2500 participants have been exchanged.