Welcome to the Finland Swedish Youth Association movement!

The Finland Swedish Youth Associations are nonpolitical organizations that provide cultural and other activities for young people.

Youth association movement

There are more than 300 Finland Swedish Youth Associations in Finland, with almost 50,000 individual members. The Finland Swedish Youth Association movement was founded in 1888 and the first youth association, Malax UF, was founded by Johannes Klockars.

The Finland Swedish Youth Association was established as a nonpolitical, national youth association in 1906 to advance the interests of the Finland Swedish Youth Associations.

Today the main mission is to give young people and the member associations a wide variety of concrete services:

  • Information about youth work and funding
  • Services in the field of amateur theatre
  • Project activities
  • Advocate for the economic support of voluntary youth associations by government authorities and other important issues related to swedish-speaking youths in Finland
  • Help the members to restore and keep the buildings of the local associations in shape

FSU is a non-profit organization registered according to Finnish law. 

Members

The members (districtorganizations) are:

Total number of individual members: almost 50 000 persons.

Activities

FSU engages in cultural youth work and has extensive experience in large cultural projects for children and young people in Swedish-speaking Finland. We strive to be a diverse and inclusive youth federation with activities that are contemporary and relevant to today’s youth. For instance, FSU has produced several youth musicals, the projects Filmskolan, Coastlan, Teater- och Kulturkalaset, and much more.

Among all the various activities, theatre is one of the most popular. FSU supports local theatre groups (about 80) with information, manuscripts and rights to performe plays among other things.

FSU wants young people to have a chance to lead active lives, get in contact with youth in other countries and to create knowledge about cooperation between organizations.