Introduction of Compass

The Compass Charter says: We help in the integration of the Hungarian youngsters into the European Union's system, motivating them to take an active part in their community's life, widening their possibilities to become a responsible citizen of the European Union and providing them with the necessary competences.

As our members are mostly high-school and university students, our purpose is to create a community, where they can spend their spare time usefully, participating at activities which includes sport, culture and voluntary work. Our organization was operating as an informal group for two years; we became a registered organization in 2005. With the help of sponsors we run a club center in Kaposvár (Arany János u. 21.), where we provide opportunity to free internet use and information connected to youths, scholarships and other youth related opportunities. The clubcenter is operated by our youth members  who are also organizing the activities, which are very varied from the foosball championship to the “Ability day”. Our programs are becoming more and more popular among the youngsters from Kaposvar, just because they are organized to and by youth.

Our Organization’s past, prezent and forecoming activities:

• COMPASS ABILITY QUEST- Skills improving programme for 6-18 years old youths
• We hold informative sessions for high school students, where they can get information about  education, training, and working opportunities in the European Union
• We have a cooperation treaty with the Somogy County's Employment Center to widen the knowledge of the youths in the area about the European Union. Together with the EURES expert of the Employment Center, we held presentations in high schools about the training and working opportunities whitin the European Union. In the future we would like to continiue this form of reaching out to the youngsters. We had a programme called „KÉP” which helped the young unemployed people to become interested in the labour market
• We have an active cooperation with the Association of the Disabled People of Somogy County, the Organization of the Blinds and Visually Damaged, and with the Equal Chance coordinating Office of Somogy County, at the moment we have 3 employees, who are considered to be 67% disabled
• We make our youth club’s guide-lines more colourful with the “ROCK-KI-MIT-TUD” talent scouting programme. The band called ‘Boys on the docks’ were taken part in this at Balatonboglar.
• In 2006 we joined the EVS programme and we becomed an accredited organization; currently we hold presentations with the Labour Center of Kaposvar, hopefully these presentations will help the local unemployed youth to a better life start
• Since April 2007 as a host organization we are hosting youths from the European Union. The volunteers help in the Compass Ability Quest and in our Informative Programme about the European Union. Currently we are hosting  volunteers from Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Romania, Turkey, Armenia, Egypt
• We are organizing annual international youth exchange camps with several country’s participation. Compass Euroteam camp with 7 countries, with a varied themes, like art, enviorment, media
• We participated at sevaral younth exchanges through the years, in different countries, like: Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Estonia,Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Turkey, Macedonia, Greece
• We sent EVS volunteers to Spain, France, Finland, Lithuania,Germany, Austria, Italy 
• We become an EURODESK Partner
• Together with our volunteers, we are preparing and organizing, foreign language lessons and clubs, intercultural nights, and camps, as well as personality and skill developing trainings
• Our organization coordinated the European Youth Week in our region where we visited schools, organized focus groups, we made differet surveys among the students, and we also organized different programs in the main square of Kaposvár, which was ran by our volunteers.
• In october of 2008 together with the metropolitan Library "Szabó Ervin", we held a programme series, entilted "The week of education, the celebration of learning".
• Also in 2008, in november we held an informative session about EVS and YiA, at Budapest Technical University, and in december we opened a Youth Hostle, which is run by our volunteers
• Our emlpoyees are constantly participating at forums, and trainings, designed for youth workers and facilitators.
• In 2008 we started a new programme, named Támop 1.4.1- Youthstart, where we teached, and help some unemployed youth to get a degree and a job.
• In the future we are planning to send more volunteers abroad, to host more volunteers in our organization, to participate in youth exchanges, to continue our community work, dedicated to every youngster who needs it.