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EVS for Euro citizenship 2

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

The project will allow the volunteers to develop their skills and acquire a European and International knowledge of their professional environment. It will provide individualized support in a collective project, common to the two youth, and both associations sending and receiving. The project will enable those involved to live a professional and voluntary experience of non- formal animation in a f ...
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Go International - Auslandspraktika für Azubis in der Türkei

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2018,

Go International is a mobility program that allows young apprentices of different professional backgrounds to complete a four-week-internship in Turkey.The program not only aims at the acquisition of vocational competences but also at intercultural education: by means of a host family stay, accompanying seminars and counselling support the intercultural learning process is facilitated, as well as ...
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Volunteer for Popular education 1

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jul 31, 2017,

The project will allow the volunteers to develop their skills and acquire a European and International knowledge of their professional environment. It will provide individualized support in a collective project, common to the two youth, and both associations sending and receiving. The project will enable those involved to live a professional and voluntary experience of non- formal animation and em ...
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Coloured Glasses - the World is our Home

Start date: Jul 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

"Coloured Glasses - the World is our Home" is a project which aims to reach more than 3500 young people with a message of appreciation of cultural diversity and international cooperation. Based on the experiences and passion of Youth For Understandings former exchange students and host families, we have developed a flexible educational concept called Coloured Glasses. Based on this concept we will ...
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Not Too Young to Remember

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

CONTEXT & BACKGROUNDRemembrance is the ongoing process of remembering, forgetting and creating narratives about the past. It is at the crossroads between history, citizenship, heritage and human rights, and for young people it represents an opportunity to learn about and be critical of the bigger picture issues related to past and current events, develop competences needed to be active citizens a ...
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Colour Our World

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

European societies face increasing challenges due to unstable situation and crisis in the Middle East, where fear and prejudice lead to acts of discrimination and hate speech. One of the ways to help foster intercultural understanding and thus enable building the grounds for more peaceful societies is to offer intercultural educational activities to young people. "Coloured Glasses" is the framewor ...
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Colored Glasses – междукултурно образование и разбирателство

Start date: Aug 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Colored Glasses consists of a series of workshops concerning the topics “Stereotypes”, “Prejudices”, "Discrimination/Racism” and “Cultural Understanding”. The workshops last between 2 and 4 hours, including an introductory game as well as students and teacher feedback. They are based on informal methods of education, relying on the principles of experimental learning. The workshop are integrated a ...
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Routes&Roots

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

CONTEXT & ORIGINToday, a multicultural Europe, that is to say, people with different cultural identities living side by side, is an increasing reality. Whether due to a current and future large influx of refugees in Europe or due to the need of immigration in Europe to compensate for demographic decline, the cultural diversity in Europe is set to increase.However, the normative-multicultural poli ...
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EVS-European Coloured Glasses

Start date: Aug 8, 2015, End date: Aug 7, 2016,

YFU was founded in 1951 and started with yearlong high school exchanges between the US and Germany. The goal was to combat prejudice and increase understanding between the two countries. The objective of the organization remains the same today; by giving young individuals an opportunity for non-formal learning about intercultural understanding, their changed attitudes and increased knowledge would ...
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Voir le Monde Autrement: Formation d'animateurs de "Coloured Glasses"

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Youth For Understanding promotes intercultural competences through long-term youth exchanges. Unfortunately, not all young people have the opportunity to participate in these exchanges because of their economic and social backgrounds. So, with the aim to use its intercultural expertise a wider target group of young people, YFU developed the "Coloured Glasses" methods and manual 1996. It consist ...
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Integrating social marketing in everyday youth work

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

In the face of high youth unemployment, young people look for opportunities to distinguish themselves on the labour market, including through learning mobility. And while youth organisations, like YFU, fully understand the benefits of secondary school long-term mobility programmes, youth organisations need a new approach to effectively reach young people through their digital and social media cha ...
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Developing Educational Activities from Research in the 21th Century

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

DEAR 21 gathered 18 participants, experienced trainers from 12 countries and 4 different networks of organisations: YFU, AFS, CISV and the Experiment in Intercultural Living, from the 20th - 27th of September 2015 in Mollina, Spain, in order to create educational activities and tools based on intercultural research developed in the 21st century. The idea of DEAR21 appeared in June 2014 during an I ...
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Exchange Voices!

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

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Helping Hand

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

In Europe, over 2,500 teenagers participate annually in youth exchanges organised by YFU. Their experience abroad, integrating into a new family and school, making new friends and learning a new language, is a profound one, where they are challenged to experience cultural diversity. Dedicated volunteers and youth workers shape this first-hand intercultural experience and make it possible. They nee ...
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Speak Out

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

Through their secondary school long-term (1 year) home stay youth exchanges, Youth For Understanding organisations, such as Sdrujenie Mladezh za razbiratelstvo Bulgaria (YFU Bulgaria) are present in over 50 countries around the world, promoting the values of intercultural understanding, mutual respect and social responsibility. In some countries and at European level, YFU is also active in youth ...
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Steering the Ship

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: May 31, 2015,

Youth For Understanding (YFU) organisations throughout Europe are volunteer-led non-profit youth organisations that primarily organise and facilitate secondary school long-term (1 year) youth exchanges to another country of the world. Working with minors who participate in such intense learning experiences means there is a high amount of responsibility on YFU boards and their young elected volunt ...
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iVolunteer for Europe

Start date: Jul 3, 2014, End date: May 2, 2015,

In Europe, over 2,500 teenagers participate annually in youth exchanges organised by YFU. Their experience abroad, integrating into a new family and school, making new friends and learning a new language, is a profound one, where they are challenged to experience cultural diversity. Dedicated volunteers and youth workers shape this first-hand intercultural experience and make it possible. Voluntee ...
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Creative Wave

Start date: Aug 1, 2014, End date: Feb 27, 2015,

Looking at our today's society, development and growth are strongly related with fluidity and constant change. We can identify this phenomena especially in the employment section where new demands arise and acquiring more skills is a given expectation. This has a strong impact upon youth's quality of life. Committed volunteers are constantly working in bridging the gap between market's requirement ...
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Reaching for diversity : the search for volunteers

Start date: Dec 1, 2010,

The long-term youth exchanges organised by national Youth For Understanding (YFU) organisations are made possible by networks of young volunteers who prepare and support the exchanges. It is part of both the mission and values of the organisation of YFU organisations to promote active citizenship by reaching out to young people and involving them in volunteer work. However, reaching out proves to ...
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Training Course for Leaders of On-Arrival Orientations

Start date: Mar 1, 2011,

Every August and September, YFU organisations across Europe organise trainings for exchange participants who have just arrived in their countries for their year-long stay abroad. Immersed in new countries and cultures, the exchange participants need guidance and support for their adaptation to new multicultural environments as well as for their personal safety and wellbeing. However, there is a gr ...
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Open Networking and Synergy Meeting

Start date: Dec 1, 2010,

Following the outcomes of several consultations and work on organisational priorities, it has become clear that EEE-YFU should become a greater facilitator of horizontal co-operation between its European member youth organisations, specifically in the form of projects. At the same time YFU is faced with the challenge of integrating new social networking and web 2.0 technologies into its field of w ...
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Bridging the Gap : the road to recognising long term youth exchanges

Start date: Aug 1, 2009,

As boarders within Europe turn from barriers to opportunities and as intercultural competences become a necessity both within communities and at the workplace, the youth of. Europe are also becoming more mobile. They are not just going on holidays, they are increasingly becoming participants of long term youth exchanges. And yet, these youth are faced with the challenge of the inevitable return to ...
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