{"id":28640,"date":"2024-06-20T11:56:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T16:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/?p=28640"},"modified":"2024-09-22T02:34:35","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T07:34:35","slug":"from-aussieyoutoo-to-youtooproject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/blog\/australia-en\/from-aussieyoutoo-to-youtooproject\/","title":{"rendered":"From AUssieYouTOO to YouTooProject"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you landed here and haven\u2019t read &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/blog\/how-did-youtooproject-start\"><strong>How did YouTooProject start?<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;, we recommend you start at the beginning, and then you can continue with our story: From AUssieYouTOO to YouTooProject, how and why we changed the brand name? Read on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>AUssieYouTOO became something much bigger, YouTooProject<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>By now, you know that AUssieYouTOO was born in a garage in Byron Bay to help international students start their adventure in Australia. But as the project continued to grow, we asked ourselves:&nbsp;<strong>why stay in only&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/australia\">Australia<\/a>&nbsp;if there were so many countries to explore?&nbsp;<\/strong>And so KiwiYouTOO and CAnadianYouTOO \u2013focused on New Zealand and Canada, came to life. Months later,&nbsp;<strong>all the brands were consolidated into a single project: YouTooProject<\/strong>. Today we also have Ireland, Dubai, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/malta\">Malta<\/a>, perfect destinations to study, improve your English, and work abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">YouTooProject Team<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>What started in 2011 as a Facebook page called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AUssieYouTOO\/?locale=es_LA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Spaniards in Byron Bay<\/a>&#8220;, became an Aussie startup in 2012, now having more than 150 employees. What&#8217;s special about it?&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/team\">The YouTooProject team<\/a>&nbsp;lives in different countries with different time zones and works remotely, without physical spaces or fixed schedules<\/strong>. While in 2017 we opened&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/YouTOOProject+Bogot%C3%A1+-+Estudia+en+Australia\/@4.6512632,-74.0542791,17z\/data=!4m8!3m7!1s0x8e3f9b809c8cbb15:0x4542d9fe78311c35!8m2!3d4.6512632!4d-74.0542791!9m1!1b1!16s%2Fg%2F11gh356qh4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our first office in Bogota<\/a>, the team in Colombia is free to decide where to work.&nbsp;<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.youtooproject.com\/files\/team-colombia-youtooproject.jpeg\" alt=\"YouTooProject team in Colombia\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How do we work?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We have&nbsp;<strong>weekly meetings with our colleagues to organise the workload<\/strong>. We set a schedule that can suit everyone \u2013for example, in the morning in Spain and in Australia\u2019s afternoon. These meetings usually happen on the same day so our team can work properly.&nbsp;<strong>Work-life balance is one of YouTooProject\u2019s pillars.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;Encerradas&#8221; in YouTooProject<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>When we started teleworking, we soon realised we needed to organise our now famous &#8220;lockdowns&#8221;. Is there still anyone out there who doesn&#8217;t know what they are? We&#8217;ll explain! Every 2 or 3 months, we meet somewhere in the world to get to know each other better, work together, and share as a team. We&#8217;ve lost count of how many lockdowns we\u2019ve had in Spain, Colombia, and Australia with the whole team, and we&#8217;re looking forward to many more!&nbsp;<br><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.youtooproject.com\/files\/team-YouTooProject-Australia.jpg\" alt=\"YouTooProject team in Australia\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\"><br>In 2023, we are born again stronger! Continue reading our story in the article &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/blog\/technology-platform-education\">We are the first technology platform that connects schools from all over the world with students<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you landed here and haven\u2019t read &#8220;How did YouTooProject start?&#8220;, we recommend you start at the beginning, and then<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28645,"href":"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28640\/revisions\/28645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtooproject.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}