Go International

They are Ronja and Katharina from Germany and they did internship for four weeks in the Youth Factory.

This exchange program was organized by “Youth for Understanding (YFU) Germany“, this is a charitable organisation with partner organisations in 50 different countries also in Turkey. YFU organizes mainly student exchanges all over the world and stand up for intercultural learning, democracy, education and want to promote social responsibility.

The name of their exchange program was “Go International“ and 2015 was the first year when it took place. Altogether they were nine program participants who lived in host families and worked for four weeks in different Turkish cities, e.g. Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara, Trabzon and of course Kayseri. All of the program participants absolved a vocational training in Germany. A vocational training was a little bit like the Turkish „staj“, it was structured as a dual system, that meant that you work in a company but you also have to go to a vocational school for mostly three years.