Intercultural youth exchange program

This is their opportunity to learn and understand the real meaning of global acceptance. American students returning from a semester, summer or year program, can share their experiences abroad bringing a wealth of knowledge to your classroom. Exchange students and exchange returnees have much to contribute to their host and home schools. They bring both diversity and new perspectives.

Serve as constant resource in social studies and foreign language classes. Teach students cultural lessons they may not be able to learn from textbooks. Share viewpoints on international issues that impact students overseas. Show and tell with elementary and middle schools so children learn about other cultures firsthand. As an educator, you want to ensure your students receive the best possible education—and sometimes that education comes from a year-old exchange student or year-old exchange alumnus.

By helping to keep the doors of your school always open to exchange, you can give your students the opportunity of a lifetime. YFU has exchanged more than , students since Our summer, semester, year and gap programs are all economically priced in order to ensure that every student who wants to study abroad can do so. From helping the student select a program and orientation to travel and airport assistance, our Department of State trained volunteers will provide them with the support they need.

All students are placed with a carefully screened host family, enrolled in school year and semester programs and have access to counseling, tutoring and worldwide emergency assistance. YFU takes all precautionary measures to ensure students' safety. Community awareness. Egyptian-Danish Ambassadors for Dialogue. Our aim was to break down prejudice and to create a better understanding between the Danish and the Middle Eastern youth. About 30 Egyptian participants attended the training.

The Danish facilitators stressed different areas such as intercultural learning, intercultural dialogue, political participation and democracy. Spring of Democracy. The youth exchange took place in Frankfurt Oder , Germany in May Renewable Energy Project. In workshops and discussions, through films, lectures, and trips,e. Experiment e. Germany leaders of this program will definitely look for maintaining the event every year.

Egyptian Swedish Dialogue for Active Citizenship. The focus of the program was to achieve a cross-cultural dialogue in order to promote peace and tolerance. The skills set you will acquire during our basic courses are mostly related to intercultural learning and linguistic promotion methods. You will participate in a basic course to acquire all the necessary and useful intercultural learning skills to organize and carry out an international youth exchange program yourself.

If you have a specific interest in international youth work, you should apply straight away! Beyond intercultural skills, you will develop an understanding of how to work in an intercultural environment while conducting groups in their project-based work. More generally, you will learn a great deal about international youth work and related learning processes.

Importantly, you will gain our official intercultural facilitator certificate. The FGYO provides funding for individual organizations that conduct the basic courses to become intercultural facilitators. These organizations organize the courses and meetings individually throughout the year. If you have any questions about the registration process or costs, do not hesitate to contact the organizations directly.

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