This is MOT

MOT*) is an organisation which was established to help young people develop strength of character combined with the right attitudes.

The main aim of MOT is to promote the development of strong young individuals within a safe and natural environment.

MOT can offer a comprehensive model for how the local community can work together with its young members. This model consists of programmes designed to improve contact with young people at secondary and upper secondary schools as well as encompassing the arena of their leisure time activities. By the means of youthful interaction, exercises, stories, dialogues and roleplays young people become more conscious of the importance of making their own decisions, taking care of each other and showing courage.

MOT’s 25 full time employees coordinate 2700 local representatives who are responsible for organising MOT activities at the local level in their respective communities.

MOT was established by elite Norwegian sportsmen in 1997. The two main pioneers were the speed skaters Atle Vårvik and Johann Olav Koss.

*)The Norwegian word “MOT” means “COURAGE”.

MOT has the lives of the youth as their core focus.

MOT empowers the youth to make their own choices and to show courage -

courage to live, courage to care, courage to say no

MOT’s vision

A warmer and safer environment

for youth to grow up in

MOT’s main target

• We are going to help youth become more robust, make conscious choices and to believe in their own abilities (working with the individual)

• We are going to contribute to youth environments where differences are accepted, and where youth make each other valuable and significant (working with the group)

MOT’s core ideas

• Empower the youth to make conscious choices that result in them better mastering life

• Strengthen youth’s courage to take care of themselves and each other

• Work with attitudes, focusing on values, choices and belief in their own abilities

MOT’s core assumptions

• Courage is the most important human quality

• Man is fragile and vulnerable - and a product of the upbringing and surroundings

• Man is robust and resilient - and can decide his own future independent of his past

MOT’s core values

• Courage to live

• Courage to care

• Courage to say no

MOT* is an organisation which was established to help young people develop strength of character combined with the right attitudes.

The main aim of MOT is to promote the development of strong young individuals within a safe and natural environment.

zMOT’s 25 full time employees coordinate 2700 local representatives who are responsible for organising MOT activities at the local level in their respective communities.

MOT was established by elite Norwegian sportsmen in 1997. The two main pioneers were the speed skaters Atle Vårvik and Johann Olav Koss.

* The Norwegian word “MOT” means “COURAGE”.

MOT has the lives of the youth as their core focus.
MOT empowers the youth to make their own choices and to show courage -
courage to live, courage to care, courage to say no

MOT’s vision
A warmer and safer environment for youth to grow up in

MOT’s main target
• We are going to help youth become more robust, make conscious choices and to believe in their own abilities (working with the individual)
• We are going to contribute to youth environments where differences are accepted, and where youth make each other valuable and significant (working with the group)

MOT’s core ideas
• Empower the youth to make conscious choices that result in them better mastering life
• Strengthen youth’s courage to take care of themselves and each other• Work with attitudes, focusing on values, choices and belief in their own abilities

MOT’s core assumptions
• Courage is the most important human quality
• Man is fragile and vulnerable - and a product of the upbringing and surroundings
• Man is robust and resilient - and can decide his own future independent of his past

MOT’s core values
• Courage to live
• Courage to care
• Courage to say no