Enabling Data-Driven Decision Making for Student Exchange Programs

In an increasingly challenging economic and political environment, Youth For Understanding Germany (YFU) faces the challenge of attracting enough participants for its student exchange programs. To successfully navigate these challenging times, YFU's leadership needs meaningful data and key performance indicators to support strategic and operational decision-making. The CorrelAid team enables this decision-making by working together with YFU to design KPIs and develop a Power BI dashboard that integrates multiple data sources and presents information in a clear and accessible way. This empowers YFU to make better decisions, manage and improve its work in a data-driven way, and ultimately encourage more young people to participate in student exchange programs. In addition, the project helps build internal capacities for long-term, data-driven organizational development of YFU.

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Status: Project Work
Project Period: June 2026 – ongoing
Partner: Youth For Understanding Germany e.V.

Youth For Understanding (YFU) has been organizing youth exchange programs as a non-profit association and recognized provider of voluntary youth welfare since 1957. Together with partner organizations in around 35 countries, YFU promotes tolerance and intercultural understanding. Each year, around 1,200 students participate in mostly long-term programs. About 3,000 volunteers are active for the association throughout Germany. Around 60 staff members work at the national office in Hamburg.
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