About us

§ 1 Name and aim of the Association:
DUGER is a non-profit organization. The name stands for Digital Youth and Green Entrepeneurs United. DUGER’s ultimate goal is to improve digital and group working skills among young people.

§ 2 Objectives
2.1 Provide young people between 10 and 20 years of age with skills that add value to their inherent abilities and capacity to find their true vocation. For this, we will offer playful cognitive experiences that will strengthen their creative skills during childhood and adolescence.

2.2 Provide young people with working experiences consistent with their local community’s increasingly growing green economy. DUGER will carry out the work practice with an emphasis on collaborative innovation projects and through mentor programs that focus on training and digital skills.

2.3 Provide young people with opportunities to succeed as an economically active population within sustainable areas with the design and production of products and services that may have a high level of demand in our main program areas:
Learning and innovation.
Health and Wellness.
Smart technology.
Ecological transport.
Storage and logistics.
Sustainable energy.
Precision agriculture.

2.4 Age-based Approach
10-12 years old
We aim to encourage children to discover and master digital tools through play with playful elements such as involvement and sharing fun and exciting activities that promote collaboration.
12-15 years old
We want to offer those who start high school the opportunity to become familiar with careers that will have high demand in the future among the working forces in society. We will make this possible through mentoring services and vocational guidance. Teenagers will choose better which line of study, both technical and university, promotes and improves their employment potential.
16-20 years old
The purpose of our programs at this age will motivate and encourage them to finish their
technical studies. DUGER will improve their job security by enabling them to acquire labor competence practices giving them their first pre-employment experience. DUGER will ensure that our program is adapted and related to their studies through our projects.

§ 3 Legal Entity
The association is autonomous and has an independent legal status and a limited and impersonal liability for debts. For this reason, each project must pass an analytical economic viability assessment before being taken into a program. DUGER will centralize our expenses to avoid spending more than we manage to finance ourselves. We will put in place control mechanisms that lead us to be self-sustaining over time. DUGER will ensure that the activity level is constant and that our economy grows organically strong.

§ 4 Guidelines for working with young people
4.1 Relevant work competence and specific work experience.
To strengthen the role of youth in the sustainable economy within their community, we will ensure that the job training they get access to has a high degree of competitive relevance. Each practice in our working programs is relevant to the studies the student participant has obtained. The remuneration of weights will be according to Norwegian law.

4.2 The work experience given in the DUGER programs must reinforce the theory rather than replace it. The work experiences will be part of a program implemented by one or several projects. These programs will consist of concrete temporary tasks and be carried out temporarily and paid according to the apprentice’s law (lærlings). The agenda will reinforce the technical education provided in Norway and not as a substitute or attempt to truncate the participant’s study career or divert the person from continuing to acquire theoretical knowledge during their time as a high school student.

4.3 Election of candidates for the roles and elaboration of labor programs.
The number of candidates needed to participate in the labor programs will be established in collaboration with the public and private sectors and based on actual demand from them. The DUGER board will elaborate labor programs and coordinate these as part of a portfolio with specific goals for each area where DUGER operates. The program manager will implement the annual program for the labor programs with one or more particular projects. Each project will deliver concrete services and products achieved with student practitioners. The project manager will assess the type of expertise and technical knowledge necessary to carry out such tasks in coordination with the educational institutions that offer these professional technical careers. The project manager will be responsible for staffing the resources needed to respond to a specific project to deliver certain services or products.

4.4 Volunteers who want to help us as mentors.
There will always be young people who will need work experience relevant to their studies. The challenge is that since they have not had a job before, they will need follow-up and guidance on applying the theory. The mentor’s function is to ensure effective and practical development of their first work experiences. For this, the project manager will provide the resources needed to help the mentors support the practitioners to achieve their goals with the labor program. The mentor will also do this with the mothers and fathers who want to keep their work as mentors. Every labor program will be practiced in a standardized way so that everyone can access the necessary support in the same way. We will apply a specific framework in all the projects that DUGER operates. The framework will ensure that everyone can benefit equally, no matter what type of activity or area a volunteer supports us until they qualify as a mentor.

4.5 Labor Innovation Framework for self-empowerment: MILA
The work innovation framework that DUGER will use will enable us to maintain the same level of quality in all labor programs and focus areas. The MILA framework ensures the professional implementation of each of the project’s deliverable packages professionally regardless of who contributes voluntarily to it.
All mentors who support us as volunteers will receive the same kind of instruction in using our framework. We aim to guide our volunteers in using various skills and tools. DUGER will do this within each of the different focus areas with which DUGER operates. According to DUGER’s principle of self-sustainability, the projects can only depend on the finances that DUGER has to manage and coordinate the deliveries for each of these purposes.
The Self-Empowerment Workforce Innovation Framework provides mentors and volunteer members with insights into:
Processes and rules about internship and work assignments in Norway.
How to map the labor potential that exists among all the participants.
How to encourage and contribute to their professional development.
Know how to adapt a project scope within the delivery capacity.

§ 5 Members
Everyone that commits to our statutes and guidelines can become a volunteer member of DUGER. But any volunteer who applies to be a mentor at DUGER in Norway must have a minimum knowledge of Norwegian and pass the Bergen test. A volunteer can only be a mentor after following instructions and passing the online qualification test for the self-empowerment workplace innovation framework (MILA). The mentor applicants need to know that they must always show a genuine interest in helping prepare today’s youth for the green shift. The various activities they can contribute will depend on the job competence they already have to contribute effectively and actively in achieving the organization’s objectives. Only the board of directors of DUGER will deal with the admission of mentors to the association. Only by being admitted as a mentor can he help develop the job skills of young people in the following areas. This activity may include one or more types of mentoring:
5.1 Labor mentor in an area of ​​innovation and investment.
5.2 Mentor to market business ideas with companies and academia.
5.3 Mentor for the development of entrepreneurial skills of participants.
5.4 Mentor to obtain financing/sponsorship and management of sponsors.
5.5 Mentor to give professional vocation talks in junior high schools.

§ 6 Board of Directors
DUGER has a board of labor program directors varying from three to eight per term. The board’s president must guarantee the continuity of the activity in the organization. The amount of activity in the different areas differs on prioritized term goals. Inside each labor program, KPI will be used to measure the performance of each program; therefore, the board’s president may recruit only suitable personnel for these positions. DUGER will consider only the following mentors during the recruitment process.
A. Those who have been with the organization for the last four years.
B. Those who have lived in Norway for at least eight years with a permanent permit stay. The mandate of the board of labor program Directors is four years with the possibility of re-election.
DUGER will work to achieve the best possible distribution between women and men on its board and membership. DUGER will apply this policy in working groups and the rest of the organization’s activities.

§ 7 Authorization signatures in the organization
Only The president of the board of directors and the vice president can sign on behalf of DUGER with a double signature.

§ 8 The annual meeting
The annual meeting takes place at the end of each year. The board will prepare presentations for the annual meeting, except for proposals for board members and board compensation which the nominating committee prepares. The timed agenda for the annual meeting is delivered 14 days before the meeting.
The Annual General Meeting will deal with the following matters:
Appeal, approval of votes, approval of call, and plan
Election of the president of the meeting and two people to sign the minutes.
Report on the meeting of the previous exercise.
Audited accounts and audit reports for the previous year.
Budget for the current year.
All members have the right to vote at the annual meeting. An appointed person may represent a member who cannot attend. The representative needs to announce himself at the meeting. The member that cannot attend must send a notice to the board’s chairperson before the meeting. The annual meeting makes decisions based on the plan. It is held by a simple majority, except for the modifications of the statutes (cf. § 13). Patrons are invited to the annual meeting if this is beneficial and appropriate but do not have voting rights.

§ 9 Nominating committee for a new board of directors
The general assembly appoints a nominating committee every four years. This nominating committee comprises association members younger than 25 years old who have been or are mentors. This committee can have a minimum of three or eight representatives each time. The nominating committee members cannot be the same members participating in the changes and amendments committee (cf. § 14).
The nominating committee’s function is to recommend candidates for new board directors leading each labor program area either as re-elected or for the election of new directors. These area directors will be active for the next 4-year term. The nominating committee will also propose the remuneration of the mentors for each focus area of ​​the organization (see section 10). The board’s president will send the case file and nominating committee recommendations to members three weeks before the annual meeting. The nominating committee can also send the candidate’s proposals for how they intend to lead each area.

§ 10 Remuneration
The nominating committee will also decides the remuneration of the council members. The mentors will have the right to symbolic and voluntary compensation, that is, a minimum percentage of the price paid in the corresponding sector, and to receive a work certificate for the work provided.

§ 11 Member donations
In principle, membership is completely free. But members will not be prohibited from contributing whatever they wish, as long as this contribution is voluntary.

§ 12 Withdrawal from the organization
As there is no membership expense fee, there is also no binding period for membership in the DUGER organization. But suppose the person has committed to supporting a project as a mentor. The member must contribute until the project’s end.

§ 13 Amendments to the Statutes
The modifications of the statutes can only be made each time there is an election of a new board every four years. The board’s president must inform members of new proposals for changes in due time, which may be part of the election of the new board. If so, the proposals will be announced eight weeks before the annual meeting and coordinated by an amendment committee independent of the nominations committee. The decision to modify the statutes will be by a majority of 2/3 of the votes.

§ 14 Independent amendment committee
If, during the year of the new board of directors election, a consensus arises to modify the statutes. The current board will convene a special meeting to elect a committee to amend the organization’s rules. The members of an amendment committee cannot be the same as the members of the nominating committee. They must be nominated well before the election of a new board. The general assembly will choose three to eight representatives among the association members, who can be between 20 and 60 years old.

§ 15 Self-management activity
The organization will administer its activity through delivery groups. Every delivery group is self-management, and a delivery group can have different tasks. Each of these will be coordinated and managed by a project leader. This project leader must be certified and appointed by the board’s president. These delivery groups will consist of volunteers or members designated internally elected representatives by each project leader. During the general assembly, these delivery groups will show their participation in the delivery and progress of their project. The board of directors will thus be better able to decide if these projects are further viable or if establishing new projects in each focus area is possible. Each delivery group aims to look for how to organize these areas and achieve economic self-management. Therefore, these groups cannot enter into commercial agreements or represent DUGER externally without the board director’s approval for the specific labor program or without the support of the other directors of the board.

§ 16 Dissolution of DUGER
It can only be discussed at an extraordinary board of directors meeting three weeks in advance. Suppose the resolution gets at least a 2/3 majority of the board of directors. In that case, the board’s president will convene an extraordinary annual meeting no later than three months. The merger or formation of companies from the activity of one or several delivery groups will not be considered a dissolution of DUGER itself. The board will decide how these mergers will take place and coordinate the necessary modifications of the statutes concerning them under the provisions on changes of the rules, cf—section 13.