Talk:Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange

Program name / article name
Okay, the state department page says "Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program." The official sites have only used cbyx though, not cbyxp - cbyx.net calls it the "Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange" though it features "Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program" in the logo. Since I merged parallel texts into this article, I'd like to just leave it here. I don't know that many people who'd be searching for the full five words, and most of the abbreviations have already been covered by redirects. --JohnDBuell | Talk 15:53, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

CBYX and YFU
I know YFU is doing Bundestag-Congress again. I volunteer with YFU Germany, and I almost worked the PPP Mittelseminar. Does anyone have any more info, before I e-mail Hamburg? samwaltz 16:19, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


 * YFU Germany has been doing CBYX without interruption. It's YFU-USA that lost its qualification, after YFU Inc. went bankrupt. --JohnDBuell 16:40, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

But YFU.de needs to get its PPP kids from YFU.us, regardless as to what the latter is called. AFS.us couldn't send kids to Germany that YFU.de would then advise. Ergo, YFU.us has to be sending. samwaltz 17:14, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


 * No, they're not. Check http://www.usagermanyscholarship.org/ - YFU hasn't been on the list for the US side since YFU Inc. was dissolved. --JohnDBuell 18:21, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

True 'nuff. YFU is listed not only on the German YFU page, but on the PPP/Congress-Bundestag page of the German government http://www.bundestag.de/jugend/ausprog/ppp/161295/wahlkreis.html. samwaltz 19:48, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, and they're represented in the de:Parlamentarisches Patenschafts-Programm article as well. --JohnDBuell 19:52, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Got it. It looks like You could be AFS on one side and YFU on the other. It looks like once you've been sent, the receiving organisation doesn't care who sent you. Should have thought of comparing the two pages earlier. Do you have anything against listing both sets of organisation on the English page, so that people don't get different sets of info when visiting between the two sites?

These are the US groups:


 * AIFSF
 * AFS-USA
 * ASSE International
 * Council on International Educational Exchange
 * AYUSA International

These are the German groups:


 * AFS Interkulturelle Begegnungen e.V.
 * Deutsches YOUTH FOR UNDERSTANDING Komitee e.V. (YFU)
 * Experiment e.V.
 * GIVE
 * Partnership International e.V.

samwaltz 19:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Done. I used interwiki links to de Wikipedia where necessary. --JohnDBuell 20:31, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


 * It's annoying to most readers who have no idea what AYUSA, ASSE, (EEIOA FJDIOSFJISD, etc.) means. In a printed Encyclopedia would spell out every one. Somebody might want to do that.-DMCer 03:26, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

You forgot the most important stuff!
Like the most famous of the students, Mohammed Atta, and all of the allegations that this group is basically used as a security services front.

See:

Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung - 10/18/2001 ‘Atta was Tutor for Scholarship Holders.'

Chicago Tribune - 3/7/2003 - ‘9/11 Haunts Hijacker’s Sponsors; German Couple Talks, of Living with Pilot Atta.’

A CIA agent who went rogue is clearly a notable person for this page! Magnum pi moustache (talk) 15:45, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Washington DC?
Why is DC singled out (for a category)? Students from Germany have attended schools for 30 years in all 50 states and DC. Possibly some territories too, but I don't have those statistics. --JohnDBuell (talk) 22:18, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

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What is the acceptance rate of CBYX?
2% is not cited