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Not Too Young to Remember

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

...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 and expand their sense of European identity. However, there are challenges to remembrance, including a continuing victory/defeat paradigm, overly national and narrow perspectives and narratives. History is used (and abused) ...
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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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Routes&Roots

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

...dentities, have in some ways served to fuel nationalism, polarisation, radicalisation and xenophobia. This situation is compounded by significant levels of immigration and difficult economic times. European leaders such Angela Merkel have made statements to this effect, such as “"Of course the tendency had been to say, 'let's adopt the multicultural concept and live happily side by side, and be ...
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Model European Union Strasbourg 2016

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

The two primary objectives of Model European Strasbourg, as previously stated, are to educate and unite. Through role-play and the intensive debate of two relevant topics, participants learn in great depth about the European Union's decision-making process, the role of each EU institution and the influence of state and non-state actors. In addition to this, participants are afforded the opportunit ...
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Voir le Monde Autrement: Formation d'animateurs de "Coloured Glasses"

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

...context in Europe. For almost 20 years, tens of thousands of young people have participated in these workshops in schools and other organisations. Unfortunately, this programme is not yet used in all European YFU organisations in Europe, including Francophone countries like YFU France or YFU Bruxelles-Wallonie. Although volunteers associations have basic skills in intercultural, many still do not ...
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Integrating social marketing in everyday youth work

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

...h young people through their digital and social media channels and communicate the benefits of long-term learning mobility. YFU believes this new approach is Social Marketing. So, for the last year, European YFU organisations have begun to work at increasing the visibility of long-term secondary school learning mobility programmes, specifically through using tools from social marketing. The Inter ...
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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,

...interpersonal situations with the method inspired by Forum Theatre and found Non-Violent Communication an interesting new tool for handling conflicts. The training course gave space to foster further European co-operation of YFU member organisations, draw from the richness of diverse intercultural backgrounds of participants and facilitate the exchange of best practices.
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Speak Out

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

...vo 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 policy, promoting issues such as the recognition and promotion of learning mobility, intercultural learning, volunteerism and non-formal education. To be ...
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Steering the Ship

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

...iversity of governance practices which represents an enormous potential for them to learn from each other. So, the training course “Steering the Ship” aimed to build the capacity of the boards of European YFU organisations to develop effective governance practices, notably through the development of young board members' transversal competences needed for the well-functioning of boards. It brought ...
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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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Diversity and intercultural learning

Start date: May 1, 2012,

Every year, European Youth For Understanding (YFU) organisations host exchange participants in over 1000 volunteer host families who are a main target group for YFU to increase tolerance and intercultural understanding. Today, most host families are identified through networking with the parents of the exchange students who are sent abroad from each country. Whilst YFU has many programmes to give ...
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Reaching for diversity : the search for volunteers

Start date: Dec 1, 2010,

...of YFU organisations to promote active citizenship by reaching out to young people and involving them in volunteer work. However, reaching out proves to be a continual and common challenge within the European network. In addition, finding ways to promote youth participation and involve young people from diverse backgrounds in volunteering is too often seen as a peripheral issue no one seems to hav ...
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Training Course for Leaders of On-Arrival Orientations

Start date: Mar 1, 2011,

...evelopments in intercultural learning, b) develop the competences of young leaders as facilitators to train others in intercultural learning using sound non-formal education methods, and c) include a European dimension in on-arrival orientations. In addition, many volunteers in new and developing YFU organisations in Central and Eastern Europe lack experienced youth workers to serve as role models ...
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F!rst

Start date: Feb 1, 2013,

In Europe, each year over 2,500 teenagers participate in yearlong 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 develop intercultural competences. Dedicated volunteers and youth workers shape this experience. The ‘F!rst’ training course will bring to ...
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Approaching education

Start date: Nov 1, 2012,

A holistic approach to educationThe mission of YFU organisations worldwide is to foster intercultural learning through long term youth exchanges. In Europe, each year over 2,500 teenagers participate in yearlong 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 challe ...
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Get ready!

Start date: Dec 1, 2011,

Annually, 2500 European youth prepare to go abroad on a long-term school exchanges organised by YFU and one of the most important steps before this is to take part in a Pre-Departure Orientation that helps students prepare for the intercultural experience that they will take part in during the coming year. While pre-departure orientations are a basic part of YFU youth mobility programmes, their co ...
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The World's Coloured Glasses

Start date: Dec 1, 2011,

...e and interpret reality. For a decade, workshops in Coloured Glasses manual which are tailored for both teachers and pupils and use interactive non-formal education methods have been used in some European countries. In the project The World’s Coloured Glasses 15 volunteers from Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Germany, Mexico, Norway, Sweden and Turkey will spend a year abroad in another of those ...
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Dialoguing through participation

Start date: Aug 1, 2010,

YFU's core work is intercultural dialogue and youth participation as a large network of young volunteers in YFU make it possible for hundreds of young Europeans to participate in long term youth exchanges every year. The young volunteers who are active locally to help train, support and counsel the exchange students and their host families work closely on the development intercultural competences. ...
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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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