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netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital society (WYRED)

Start date: Nov 1, 2016, End date: Oct 31, 2019,

...mplicated by the fact that the group is a swiftly moving target, it is as heterogeneous as the wider society, and young people can be unwilling to be subjects of research.The WYRED project (netWorked Youth Research for Empowerment in the Digital society) aims to provide a framework for research in which children and young people can express and explore their perspectives and interests in relation ...
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EVS for Euro citizenship 2

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

...unteers 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 foreign country. Beyond individ ...
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Go International - Auslandspraktika für Azubis in der Türkei

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

...edge of English or Turkish; they should have completed their first year of training, be open-minded, adaptable and interested in other cultures.The program is conducted by the exchange organization Youth For Understanding Germany; it was developed in cooperation with the German-Turkish-Youthbridge, who also acts as a funding partner. The hosting organization is Youth For Understanding Turkey.The f ...
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G.I.V.E. Global Illimited Volunteering Energy

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

G.I.V.E. – Global Illimited Volunteering Energy is an EVS mobilities’ project in the frame of KA1 action of Erasmus+ Programme.Starting from a statement of the Maastricht Global Education Declaration (2002) Global education is “education that opens people’s eyes and minds to the realities of the globalized world and awakens them to bring about a world of greater justice, equity and human rights fo ...
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The role of a men in gender equal Europe

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Oct 30, 2017,

...will last for 15 months involving 8 countries: Serbia, FYRO Macedonia, Kosovo (under resolution 1244), Albania, Portugal, Austria, Germany and Belgium. Aim of the project is to raise the awareness of youth, professional and general public in 8 involved and other European countries about the importance of the role of boys and young men in gender equality and gender based violence prevention in Euro ...
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"EUrope with(out) borders?"

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"EUrope with(out) borders?" is a project about discrimination, prejudice and intolerance. Its aims are to support youth organizations and professionals working in areas in which the phenomena of intolerance and discrimination are on the rise or just with young people who are the first victims of these phenomena to improve their skills in a general framework for the promotion of fundamental Europ ...
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European Badge Alliance

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

...are not sufficiently oriented toward the needs of young people; key competences acquired through non-formal or informal learning, namely through mobility, by young people need to be more valorized, Youth workers lack of competences regarding innovative approaches on recognition; cooperation among institutions at regional national and European level needs to be reinforced and there is a scarce inte ...
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Volunteer for Popular education 1

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

...unteers 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 empowerment in a foreign country ...
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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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Colorful Fighters For European Empowerment

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

COFFEE (Colorful Fighters for European Empowerment) is a training course about youth workers, youth leaders, members and volunteers of youth organisations who work or willing to work with LGBTI young people. It will bring to Thessaloniki 30 participants from Sweden, Greece, FYR Macedonia, Italy, Turkey, Cyprus, Slovakia, Romania, Lithuania, Spain, Bulgaria and Belgium who want to increase their sk ...
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From new challenges to innovative contributions: using online tools to promote exchange and understanding

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

...erent people, who just move around in their own ‘circles’. With this training course we want to promote an exchange of personal stories, to overcome prejudices. During the training, the attending youth workers will first learn what the root causes of prejudices are in our societies and analyze the situation in different countries. The next phase is about exploring and mastering online tools to pro ...
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The Journey - Stories of Migration, Tales of Inclusion

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

...starting point of any sustainable integration policy should be the respect for migrants and refugees as individuals, with their own stories, dreams and competences. We feel that youth organizations and European youth can have a great role in addressing this gap. By meeting the refugees/migrants and collecting their stories (needs, dreams, fears, personal stories, journeys, expectations, goals, hop ...
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Youth Entrepreneurs' Lab

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

Training Course 'Youth Entrepreneurs' Lab' Thessaloniki 20th-26th of 0ctober, 2016 KA1 (Youth Mobility) Erasmus+ programIt is important for youth to take intiative and fееl inspirеd to fulfill the ideas by upgrading their skills, tal ...
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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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Colored Glasses – междукултурно образование и разбирателство

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

...e goal is to start a dialogue and raise the awareness so that the young people understand and show other cultures greater tolerance. This is in line with the mission statement for YFU ("Youth For Understanding advances intercultural understanding, mutual respect, and social responsibility through educational exchanges for youth, families and communities"), but also remains a challenge for the Bulg ...
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ReaDy! SeT! aCTioN! – PROCEED and SUCCEED (YOU are THE MESSAGE)!

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

Training course “ReaDy! SeT! aCTioN! – PROCEED and SUCCEED (YOU are THE MESSAGE)!" is going to gather 30 youth workers, trainers and volunteers from 11 different partner organizations from European Union and Partner countries. Training course is dedicated to enrich (or build foundation) knowledge about audiovisual (photography and video) measures as tools to increase society awareness about NGOs o ...
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Europe from Scratch

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

"Europe from Scratch" is a multimeasure project inspired by the EC project "A new narrative for Europe" that includes 2 YEs for young people aged 18-30 and a job shadowing period for youth workers. The project involves more than 100 youngsters from Belgium, Austria, Italy, Turkey, FYRoM, Portugal, Greece, Poland, UK, Lithuania and Cyprus. Activities will take place between May and December 2016. ...
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Europe in crisis: a call for dialogue. What can youth workers contribute?

Start date: May 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

...ons from all sides to develop better informed opinions. We also believe that knowledge is the key to understanding and compassion. This training course is organized for representatives of youth organizations from different European countries, to create a common strategy. As the crisis is a cross-border problem, it only makes sense to coordinate our actions in a European framework. After the traini ...
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Guidelines for Recognition - European Advanced Tool

Start date: Nov 1, 2014, End date: Nov 1, 2016,

"GR-EAT: Guidelines for Recognition: European Advanced Tool" is a youth project aiming at enhancing the recognition of Non Formal and Informal Learning and at providing youth-led organisations with support and guidance to implement internal systems of recognition of the competences of their volunteers. Indeed, in the current youth unemployment crisis in Europe, there is a clear need to help young ...
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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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EVS-European Coloured Glasses

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

...ent and the larger society of which they are part. This can in turn create a more open, tolerant society with less prejudice and racism. With many European countries facing financial difficulties and youth unemployment rates being sky high, there is an anti-immigrant, anti-minority mood that has gripped Europe with right wing, anti-immigrant political parties gaining support. In such a context it ...
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Enabling Inclusion

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Enabling Inclusion project is a long term EVS hosting project involving 6 volunteers from Spain (x2), Turkey, Germany, Georgia and Norway which will take place in Rome, Italy. Main themes of the project are disability and inclusion as Sezione Laziale della UILDM ONLUS works with and for people with neuromuscular diseases and physical disabilities. The objectives of the project are to: * raise awar ...
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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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Don’t judge a book by its cover: Empowering youngsters to organize a Human Library

Start date: Aug 30, 2015, End date: May 29, 2016,

...ote dialogue, challenge prejudices and encourage understanding. The main characteristics of the project are to be found in its simplicity and positive approach. It is created by members of the Danish youth organization Stop the violence in 2000 and it is now operational in more than 60 countries. The Human Library is a public event, where interested people can come to challenge their prejudices. T ...
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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,

...reate educational activities and tools based on intercultural research developed in the 21st century. The idea of DEAR21 appeared in June 2014 during an ICL seminar in Hamburg, a project supported by Youth in Action, where the representatives of four networks of organisations: EEE-YFU, EFIL, CISV International and The Experiment, met in order to get to know each other and work together in the fiel ...
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Change management in youth NGOs

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

Low youth participation has recently become more and more evident. Usually, as an indicator of the low youth participation, the young voters’ turnout is used (which indeed becomes worse every year). However, low youth participation does not appear only when voting. Low youth participation becomes part of all aspects of the democratic life and especially in the everyday life of the youth organizati ...
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Empowering Through Storytelling

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Jan 1, 2016,

...s and in lobbying campaigns. It enables the organizations to show to the audience the organization’s ideas or products and/or to lobby for them. We believe that storytelling can be a vital tool for youth workers too. In the frame of youth work, storytelling can be the process that enables youth workers to achieve the personal, socio-educational and professional development of the young people they ...
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Enter the net!

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

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Empowering youngsters with skills, knowledge and attitudes to improve their influence on decision making processes

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

In the Netherlands, youth political parties are very active. In most cities there are youth branches of political parties. They serve multiple purposes: to provide leisure activities, to get organizational experience, to gain experience in a political context and to have influence on decision making processes. Next to these structures, many countries have national youth councils, with representati ...
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Conflict Management tools for youth workers

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

On an everyday basis, youth workers are dealing with conflicts. They are in touch with youngsters, sponsors and authorities. They ‘move’ in different local cultures, effectively as a mediator between different interests. It makes their work most valuable, as they are usually also working with vulnerable groups. On a daily basis they deal with many visions, which do not always go hand in hand with ...
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GREEN conNEXTion

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

The youth exchange "Green ConNEXTion" took place in Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium, from September 5th to September 15th. The project aimed at addressing the concept of Sustainable Deevlopment, with a specific focus on environmental sustainability. The concept of Sustainable Development, in fact, has been recognized as a crosscut principle in previous decades. Significant efforts are being put by ...
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World Citizens

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

...who reside in the country without being citizens in the formal sense, but it involves also participating in the community life and carrying weight in matters concerning our daily life. This Youth Exchange aims to raise awareness about the topic of social citizenship, immigration policies and access to social rights of non-citizens in order to increase young people's social inclusion and well-bei ...
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Exchange Voices!

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

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JOB HUNTERS

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

Economic crisis has seriously hit youth. Youth unemployment in Europe is twice as high as unemployment rates for all ages. According to Eurostat’s data, EU-28 unemployment rates for people under 25 years has reached 23.5% in 2013. Greece and Spain’s percentages for the same year peaked at 58.3% and 55.5% respectively, followed by Croatia, Italy, Cyprus and Portugal, while similar situation is refl ...
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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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First Work Experience for Lifelong Success

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

...n. The work experiences on the other hand need to be transversely recognized and to improve the competitiveness of young people on the labor market. Macedonia has a very high percentage of unemployed youth among the total unemployment and several researches show that this is due to the lack of practical work experiences and attitudes to initiate one’s own employment. The mobility work can motivate ...
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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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