Nordic CS Organization

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Welcome to the Nordic CS Organization

The intention of this wiki is to provide structure and continuity for the work of the ambassadors of the Nordic countries. The Nordic CS Organization is there to provide support and exchange of ideas to countries that share a similar situation and to strengthen the bonds in the area.

The Nordic countries are:

(There is a discussion taking place to see if more countries should be included in this group)

Couchsurfing group: Nordic CS Organization

Moderator:

Ricard Salevik, Global Ambassador of Nordic Europe

Meetings

Stockholm June 13-15, 2008

Nordic Cs Organization meeting 2 Helsinki December 5-7, 2008

Ambassadors in Nordic Europe

Ideally there should be 1 City Amb to 250 CS Members and 1 Country Amb to 7 City Ambs.

Global Ambassadors

Ricard Salevik - Nordic Europe Ambassador
Duke - Finland

Denmark

Country Ambassadors

Thorbjørn Kühl

(4400 members)

City Ambassadors

Vejen - Mads Husted
Århus - Kristian Ravn
Copenhagen - Simon Hansen, Nora L, Karolina Seredynska Hansen

(Copenhagen with 1880 members has currently a ratio of 620 members per ambassador. 3 more would bring the ratio to around 300 per ambassador)
(Århus with 545 members has currently a ratio of 545. 1 more ambassador would bring the ratio to 270 per ambassador. (There is another Århus Ambassador but she's currently traveling and thus has changed to a nomadic ambassador))
(Odense and Aalborg could use a city ambassador to strengthen the CS community in Fyn and North Jutland respectively)

Nomadic Ambassadors

Randi Johnsen, Niels Roe

Finland

Country Ambassadors

(2900 members)

City Ambassadors

(Helsinki with 1040 members has currently a ratio of 346 members per city ambassador. 1 more ambassador would bring the ratio to 260 per ambassador)

Nomadic Ambassadors

Currently there are no nomadic ambassadors in Finland

Iceland

Country Ambassadors

Currently there are no country ambassadors in Iceland

(500 members)

City Ambassadors

Nomadic Ambassadors

Norway

Country Ambassadors

(2500 members)

City Ambassadors

Bergen - Tedwh
Molde - Sven Berg Ryen
Oslo - Jon Vesterøy
Tromso - Ula Woroniecka, Timmy Dassler

(Oslo with 930 has currently a ratio of 930 members per city ambassador. 2 more ambassadors would bring the ratio to 310 per ambassador)
(Trondheim with 245 members needs 1 ambassador)

Nomadic Ambassadors

Currently there are no nomadic ambassadors in Norway

Sweden

Country Ambassadors

(9,677 members)

City Ambassadors

Gnosjö
- Stefan & Linda

Göteborg
- Tota & Fhein

Lund

- Björn Berndin

Stockholm

Sundsvall
- EAZE

Umeå
- Jonas Paulsson

Västerås
- Adam Stone

(Stockholm with 2,264 members has currently a ratio of 377 members per city ambassador. 3 more ambassadors would bring the ratio to 252 per ambassador)
(Göteborg with 1,343 members has currently a ratio of 1,343 members per city ambassador. 4 more ambassadors would bring the ratio to 269 per ambassador)
(Malmö with 560 members needs 2 city ambassador)
(Uppsala with 417 members needs 1 city ambassador)
(Lund with 409 members needs 1 city ambassador)