Anti is YFU Estonia volunteer and here is what she says about her experience: „I am representing an organization called YFU, NGO that works thanks to all amazing volunteers and I am one of them. I live in Pärnu but right now we are travelling visiting different school in Estonia and...
From March 26-28, I represented Coloured Glasses on a European conference on youth workers education and training. The conference took place in Mainz, Germany and was entitled “The Quality Bonus – ETS Conference”. But what is the ETS and how is it relevant for Coloured Glasses? ETS stands for European Training...
Alva is YFU Sweden volunteer and here is what she says about her experience: ”I didn’t have any expectations when I signed up for the Coloured Glasses training in Stockholm in October 2017. I just wanted to somehow still be connected to YFU after my exchange year and the training...
Palermo is the capital city of Sicily, Italy. Because of its position at the heart of the Mediterranean Sea, the city’s history has been ‘shaped’ by three different geographical areas: Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East. On the 5th of March, three Italian volunteers, Rachele (from Turin), Paola and Michela...
The triathlon team “Lauchsalat” and our Regional Coordinator Judith started for the project Coloured Glasses at the “Laufen hilft” Run at Vienna on the 4th of March. The triathlon team “Lauchsalat” had an ideal start into their new competition season. With “Laufen hilft” they found the perfect mix of relaxed atmosphere,...
On January 31st, I was invited to a radio broadcast in order to introduce YFU France and the Coloured Glasses project. It was in a local radio station, in Tours, France. Around 350 to 400 people were following the show live. It lasted one hour and a half, during which...
The CGrow team has already started the preparations for the Meeting of regional coordinators and school ambassadors and for the European Conference. These will be the two main events of the second year of the project. The meeting of regional coordinators and school ambassadors will take place in Brussels from 27...
Each year on the first weekend of January, the Steering Committee of Colored Glasses Germany invites all the regional coordinators to get to know each other and to receive trainings in their relevant function. After convening in Hamburg for several years in a row, this year’s annual kick-off event called...
We were invited by two different teachers to hold workshops for their students at the “Bildungsanstalt für Elementarpädagogik 8” in Vienna, Austria. The initial workshop had approximately 17 students and focused on the topic of human rights. For the second workshop, we had 26 students for which we had to...
On the 23rd of January, two CGrow facilitators run a workshop in Chambray les Tours, France with 22 participants. The group was composed by students aged between 18 and 22 years old, studying International Business. Their teacher wanted them to face and discuss about what they could feel with a...