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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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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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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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Make a Step Forward

Start date: Apr 1, 2014,

Based on Youth in Action program Annual Priorities for 2013 this project is mainly targeted at young people suffering the consequences of unemployment and aimed to offer them the possibility of improving their skills (social, linguistic, professional…).This EVS project will enable 28 young volunteers aged from 18-30 from Italy, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Spain and Sweden to be enga...
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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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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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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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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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