Our environment connects your organization to the global YFU-partner network. It helps you organize high quality and educational exchanges with partners worldwide. The global market place allows you to offer your own programs and to benefit from program offers of partners around the globe. You collaborate on individual exchanges, financial workflows, quality, compliance and other essential operational business processes.
Our Product: YFU.world
An Industry Solution for Youth Exchange
We are building YFU.world - an industry solution that connects exchange organizations, stakeholders and clients that operate, participate and support the execution of educational youth exchange programs worldwide.
Features
YFU.world features support a network of decentralized organizational structures that jointly operate within their different market environments.
Our applications and services provide features that enable exchange organizations to organize exchange programs within their own local markets, closely collaborating with local stakeholders as well as their respective sending and receiving partners worldwide.
Connecting the YFU-Partner Network
Deliver Program Services
Your organization will benefit from key services to organize long term, individual exchange programs: Hosting in families, Participant support, travel, insurance, residence & visa support, educational events, school enrollments, and many more.
Collaborative CRM
Collaborate and build relationships with your many different stakeholders: leads and applicants, participants, volunteers, members, partner organizations, schools and other service providers. Benefit from additional operational and analytical features.
Manage Outreach & Campaigns
Create segmented content, manage its lifecycle and administrate the streaming onto content channels. Publish websites with segmented landing pages and manage conversion touchpoints and incoming conversions. Maneuver your lead pipeline and walk applicants through the decision making and admissions process.
Administrate your Organization
Build and administrate the setup of your organization with offices & departments, boards, regional structures, or operational roles that exist in your organization. Manage your constituents that make up our organization and your relationships with them: members, volunteers, employees and alumni network.
Information, Knowledge & Training
Handle information services with the help of directory services, news, change logs and resource sharing tools. A global training platform allows for systematic training and capacity building.
Seamless Collaboration
Collaborate seamlessly across place, time and organization. Features include same sign on, localization, responsive user interfaces, in-app messaging and notification tools.
Client Services
Allow your important stakeholders to interact with you and vital contacts all the way through their relationship cycle: when, where and how they need it. The Client Portal is a dedicated web app for important stakeholders such as participants, volunteers, parents or teachers.
Architecture & Technology
YFU.world is a multi-tier, modular cloud based application environment combining custom & off-the-shelf web applications.
Custom Development
We develop custom applications, libraries and modules for specialized and highly integrated business processes. For software development we are primarily working with this technologies:
Frontend: Quasar, VueJS, Vite, Yarn, HTML, CSS (SaSS), HAML/ERB, Semantic UIBackend: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, RESTful JSON
Developer Tools: Git, Redmine, Github/Gitlab
Open Source
Regarding technology choices, we strive to follow the Open Source philosophy. Industry and client specific requirements are covered by our own software. For standard business processes we like to leverage the power of well established, best-of-the-breed open source solutions. Among other, currently used open source applications include Teedy, Media CMS and Nextcloud.
Platforms
Our applications and services run in a containerized environment (Docker and Podman). This containerization allows flexibility on all levels of our architecture, localization and federation of our hosting, application and data stacks, worldwide.