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Coloured Glasses - the World is our Home

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

...d 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 offer non-formal education ...
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Not Too Young to Remember

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

...for young people to learn to be critical and to have an intercultural approach to remembrance. For the last 60 years, YFU organisations in over 50 countries around the world have organised year long youth exchanges with 15 to 18 year olds. As an organisation born in the aftermath of the second World War, embracing the ideals of intercultural understanding and respect to create more peaceful and ...
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Colour Our World

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

... their stereotypes and prejudices and will engage in activities supporting intercultural understanding rather than discrimination acts and intolerance. Intercultural education of the youth today can serve as the cornerstone for more peaceful societies of tomorrow.
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Routes&Roots

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

...tendency had been to say, 'let's adopt the multicultural concept and live happily side by side, and be happy to be living with each other'. But this concept has failed, and failed utterly” (2010).Youth For Understand believes that multiculturalism is not enough. There is a need for the development of intercultural competences (from a young age) and for an increase in genuine intercultural dialogu ...
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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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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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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,

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,

... 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 in their own countries to learn from. So, the Training Course for leaders of on-arrival orientations will gather together 23 youth workers from 13 countries in Ch ...
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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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Linking national and European democratic participation

Start date: Dec 1, 2010,

...ational levels to the values and goals of YFU and AFS organisations in order to encourage young people's active participation and raise awareness of the interdependence of national and European level youth policy. The training is a part of a broader strategy on empowering national organisations to promote democratic participation among their volunteers in order to prepare them for the responsibili ...
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Open Networking and Synergy Meeting

Start date: Dec 1, 2010,

...he 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 work. So, du ...
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