I am a part of an organization that is called YFU, where I am a volunteer in Estonia. I am from Hiiumaa, it is an island within the country. At the beginning of October I got an opportunity to explore my own country and at the same time visit different...
On October 4th, in the YFU France office located in Tours, we welcomed during an information meeting five staff from different youth organizations, to introduce them not only to our association YFU but also to the Coloured Glasses project. The aim of the meeting was to meet several representatives working in...
A set of e-learning modules is helping Coloured Glasses facilitators carry out high-quality workshops. Facilitators are at the core of the development of Coloured Glasses: they deliver Coloured Glasses workshops to groups of young people, thus contributing to expanding intercultural education. Being a facilitator requires the acquisition of certain competences. Training is...
It was an ordinary Tuesday and the Dinosaurs and Storm troopers walked around enjoying the sun. It was a bit strange at first, but after a while you get used to the fact that you are surrounded but more or less everything that you normally don’t see on an average day....
At the end of August the annual Estonian Student Councils Unions (ESCU) summer school took place. The 3-day-long event was organised in Klooga and had over 70 participants. The overall idea of the event was to help young people see those important things in life, that they usually don’t notice. Due...
Hello, my name is Bianca Hansabut and I am the School Ambassador of the Coloured Glasses project in Austria. I am still fairly new to this organisation, but I love being a part of it and do my best to spread awareness of it here in Vienna. We chose our capital...
At the beginning of August two YFU Sweden Volunteers took themselves to a Scout camp in Kristianstad to deliver workshops about Identity and Human Rights. The Scout camp had over 10.000 participants of different age groups. There they tried to have workshops in the morning with teen-agers between 15-18. They...
In Austria’s capital, the YFU spirit spills over to Coloured Glasses. The past weeks have been particularly dedicated to laying the ‘offline’ and online foundations for a successful project and boost its visibility. Part of these endeavors is an informative and attractive representation of CGrow Vienna Region online. As a first...
Non-formal education is consistent with any planned programme of personal and social education for people, designed to improve a range of skills and competence, outside of the formal curriculum. Non-formal education is the methodology chosen by Coloured Glasses to approach intercultural learning. Non-formal education methodology was something not completely new for me,...
A Coloured Glasses (CG) workshop was held in Nelijärve, Estonia for 65 participants with the aim of reaching out to different youth organisations and introducing them to the CG concept. The aim of the workshop was to familiarize the participants to the concept of culture and adaptation and to spread the methods...