What is the JoHo mission, vision and concept?

Mission & Vision

• JoHo wants to enable people and organizations to develop and collaborate better, thereby contributing to a tolerant, tolerant and sustainable world.
• Support is provided for personal development and international collaboration is stimulated via online platforms and physical support centers.

Concept

• As a JoHo donor, subscriber or insured you support the objectives of JoHo. JoHo then supports you with tools, coaching and benefits in the field of personal development and international activities.
• JoHo's core services are: study assistance, competence development, coaching and insurance mediation when you leave abroad.

What is the JoHo target group?

Core target groups

• Travelers, volunteers, workers, emigrants, and everyone involved in the world around them.
• Young people, students, interns, and anyone who wants to develop themselves further.
• Projects, initiatives and organizations that are committed to international cooperation.

What are the core JoHo themes?

• Personal development: Learning, Studying, Working, Applying, Entrepreneurship, Initiating.
• International cooperation: Help, Travel, Arrange, Emigrate, Immigrate & Inspire.

How can JoHo support you?

• In addition to the support you can provide to JoHo, JoHo supports you with tools, decision aid, advice and discounts on articles, insurance, travel, activities, training, facilities, summaries and media use.

How can you support JoHo?

• By using the JoHo products and services you automatically support the goals of JoHo.
• You can also join JoHo online or in the support center as a donor or subscriber
• JoHo donors make it possible for JoHo to have been committed to successful projects in the field of development cooperation, knowledge sharing and talent development for years. Anyone who supports JoHo can also contribute to the projects and make use of knowledge, decision aid and discounts.

What have JoHo and JoHo donors already achieved?

• For an idea of ​​the direct and indirect effects that you contribute to as a JoHo subscriber, donor and Worldsupporter, read more on the page with featured JoHo projects, initiatives, results and impact

What does the World of JoHo consist of?

• JoHo WorldSupporter: The JoHo platform for those who also want to do something for others, an online community and marketplace for global citizens, volunteers and involved companies.
• JoHo Insurances: The JoHo platform for all your insurance, security measures, visa matters, vaccinations & arrangements for short and long stays abroad.
• JoHo Memberships: The JoHo platform for personal development with tools for study, internship, work, travel and emigration.
• JoHo Partnerships: The JoHo platform where organizations are enabled to bring their projects, activities and vacancies to the attention of a target group that wants to mean something for the world around them.

How can you use JoHo?

• You can explore the World of JoHo through JoHo support centers, the online platforms and the events.
• Visit a JoHo World Experience Center, make an online discovery trip, visit JoHo at an event, or contact us by phone.
• Read about cooperation with and services of JoHo

What is the meaning of the term JoHo?

• The term JoHo has had multiple meanings over the years. Today, reference is made to a more than 2,000-year-old quote from Ashoka. On the banks of the Ganges, the Indian visionary and ruler Ashoka tried to convince his people that all peoples on earth are equal and can learn from each other: "Life is a Journey to Open-mindedness, Helpfulness and Optimism."

When you support JoHo...

by joining as a JoHo member

• By joining JoHo as a member, you support JoHo in all its activities in the areas of international cooperation and talent development
• You can become a JoHo member by contributing €5.00 per calendar year

through the purchase of JoHo subscription services

• You can obtain JoHo subscription services for €10, €15,00 or €20.00 per calendar year for extra services and discounts

by taking out (travel or health) insurance

• By applying for a travel or health insurance via JoHo you do not only support JoHo, but also yourself
• You pay less premium and you are able to use the services and discounts of a JoHo subscription for free 

....then JoHo will support you...

with choice assistance & advice

• concerning work, travel, study, inspiration and emigration

with organization profiles & vacancies

• for full time jobs, part time jobs, volunteer work, internships, and work experience positions at home or abroad

with summaries & study support

• such as printed and online study books, textbooks, professional literature, exams & practice questions, lecture notes, terms and readers

with discounts on items & gifts

• concerning travel, study, work, inspiration and emigration

with discounts on activities & projects

• such as air travel, holidays, volunteer work, language courses, and travelling 

with discounts on insurances & advice

• such as emigration insurances, travel insurances, and health insurances

...and together we support worldsupporters and projects

• with personal development via worldsupporter.org and online tools
• with international collaborations via projects in Africa, Asia, and South America
• with bringing organizations and individuals into contact with each other to make each other stronger, more aware, and to inspire one another

How do you receive free subscription services when insured via JoHo?

• Are you a member and do you take out a yearly continuous insurance via JoHo? Then you are able to use the services and discounts of the JoHo subscription for free
• How does it work? Become a JoHo member and apply for your travel or health insurance  via JoHo. As a JoHo member you will receive the benefits of the JoHo subscription

How to choose and purchase a JoHo subscription services

Purchasing JoHo subscription services

• JoHo members can choose to purchase a subscription for choice assistance, advice, discounts, or extra support for JoHo
• If you want to purchase subscription services, you are able to do so with the same form as the one to become a JoHo member
• If you already are a JoHo member and want to change to, or add, a subscription, please fill out form for changing your membership

How does registering, logging in & creating a password work

• As a new JoHo member you automatically receive an online account at joho.org, which you can activate with a link that you will receive in your mailbox

Read more at

• FAQ regarding your JoHo accounts on JoHo.org and WorldSupporter

Are you able to become a member without an IBAN/SEPA bank account?

• If you don't have an IBAN (international bank account number) with SEPA, but you still want to use membership services or support JoHo's projects and initiatives, including Smokey Tours, take a look at the page about International services

What are the rules and guidelines?

• For changing personal data: please use the form for changing your membership or use the contact form
• For cancelling or changing your membership and/or subscription: please use the form for the right processing
• Rules and conditions regarding JoHo memberships and subscriptions can be found here

What is your JoHo number?

• You can find your JoHo number at your My JoHo page as soon as you are logged in at joho.org
• You need your JoHo number, for example, for obtaining the discounts on insurances, summaries, and at partner organisations
• Have you lost your JoHo number? Please contact JoHo via the online contact forms or log in at joho.org and you will find your JoHo number at your account page on JoHo.org

Join & Register (via JoHo.org)

To make optimal use of the WorldSupporter platform, you can use the functionalities below. Most features are only available to logged in WorldSupporters.

Access level of the page

• Public: this content will be visible for everyone.
• WorldSupporters only: this content will be visible for logged in Supporters, and JoHo member without full online access.
• JoHo members: this content will be visible for JoHo members & subscribers with full online access.
• Private: this content will be visible for you (the author) in the 'My Collection' section of your personal magazine only - great for drafts or notes to yourself.

Add to my selected supporters: 

• You will be able to follow the latest contributions of this Supporter through your own magazine.
• Supporters who are 'selected' many times will be highlighted on several WorldSupporter overview pages.

Categorise

• When you add content you will be asked to 'catagorise' or tag your content.
• The categories that you select will be used in (search) filters, so other supporters that share your interests are more likely to find your contribution on selected pages
• Tags will be shown on your contribution page.
• Moderators will also be triggered to pick up your content to put in the 'spotlight' of the chosen category.
• When your content does not fit to some of the category options, don't worry, just leave that option blank.
• Does you content fit to multiple categories? Just click 'add another' to add an extra category.
• Doesn't your content fit in any of the categories? Then you are probably using the wrong platform....

Content & Contributions

• JoHo WorldSupporter provides people and organisations with different tools to share knowledge and experiences.
• You can compose the following contribution types:
  • Summaries: Book summaries, Course Pointers, Practice Exams, Study Guides & Study Notes
  • Texts: Blogs, Instructions, Opinions, Quotes, Statements & Tutorials
  • Tips: Events, Sustainable Tips, Travel Tips & World Recipes,
  • Tools: Bundles (selections), Media (movies, photos, documents), Starting pages ('magazines') & Updates ('messages')
• Contributions that you make are listed in the 'My collection' section of your personal magazine, so you can easily return to your pages.
• Adding content on JoHo WorldSupporter is a functionality open and live to logged-in JoHo members to avoid misuse.
• More information about adding content can be found in the using content and tools on WorldSupporter.org starting page
• More information about JoHo memberships can be found on the register with JoHo WorldSupporter starting page     

Comments & Compliments

• You can add compliments and give feedback, so your favorite Supporters will be encouraged to add more and even better content.
• The author of the page will receive a notification by e-mail highlighting your comment.
• Adding comments on JoHo WorldSupporter is a functionality open and live to logged-in JoHo members.
• Anonymous visitors can also add a comment, but it will always be read by a moderator before it will be published, which can take up to 48 hours.
• Comments are listed in the 'My collection' section of your personal magazine, so you can easily return to the pages where you have commented before.
• When someone replies to your comment, you will receive a notification mail, when someone adds a new comment on a page where you also added a comment, you will not receive any notification.

Countries

• Contributions that apply to a specific country/continent will be listed on country & regions overview pages.
• Adding multiple countries to one contribution is allowed.
• Part of these contributions will be advertised at joho.org for additional exposure.
• Country moderators use these categories/labels to spot new relevant content for their followers.

Exposure

How can you influence the amount of exposure your contributions get?

• Complete profiles, with filled out mini CV, are more likely to get exposure on WorldSupporter main pages.
• Pick a title that is both catchy and informative using smartly selected keywords.
• Adding (sharp and supportive) images to your contributions will help others to click through to your content.
• WorldSupporter moderators select and highlight the contributions that fit their subject.
• A selection of contributions will also be highlighted on selected pages of www.joho.org.
• Supporters with many followers will be listed more prominently on the 'Best Supporters' page
• By actively participating in the Contributions/Comment section you can increase your personal exposure.

Favorite

• Content that is flagged as 'Favorite' will be highlighted on several Magazine overview pages.
• Content that you mark as Favorite will appear in your list of favorites on your personal magazine (section: 'my collection' - only visible to you personally), making it easier to return to that page.
• Marking a page as your 'Favorite' can also be seen as a compliment to the author or a trigger to read for other browsing Supporters.
• For your privacy, it is not possible for other users to see which content you have tagged as 'Favorite'.

Follow

• By clicking the button '+ Follow' below the Authors avatar, you can add the Supporter to your list of selected Supporters.
• Newly published content by these authors will appear on your own personal magazine as well.
• A list of supporters that you follow is shown in the 'my selected supporters' section of your personal profile, visitors of your profile can not see this list.
• The number of 'Followers' a user obtains is used on the 'Favorite supporter' overview page.
• The Supporter you follow is not notified when you start or stop following, if you want an author to know you started following her/him you can add a compliment/comment below the contribution that triggered you to follow that Supporter.

JoHo members

• JoHo members have access to all content on WorldSupporter. You can become a JoHo member here
• You can help recruit JoHo members by choosing 'JoHo members' as access level for (some of) your contributions.
• When you stop your JoHo membership, your WorldSupporter account will remain active, only your access level will be reduced.

Media

• You can add media page as one of the tool of your WorldSupporter account. As the other page types it will appear also as teaser on your own magazine and the magazines of supporters that follow you.
• Media include photos, movies (links to YouTube/Vimeo or other platforms), (links to) presentations or documents.
• adding several photos in the same pages will create a slide show.
• For all file types a maximum upload size of 2MB is set, all bigger items can be shown through an external link.

Moderators

• A WorldSupporter moderator is a thematic guide through WorldSupporter content.
• What does a moderator do? A moderator manages a special moderator magazine next to his personal magazine. The modarator magazine serves as a starting point for other visiting supporters. 
• Moderators also search outside WorldSupporter for interesting web pages or blogs or for instance Youtube channels to refer users to.
• Want to know more about becoming a WorldSupporter moderator? Please fill out the contact form

Save for later

• No time to read a contribution directly? Or you want to read something again later?
• By clicking on the 'Save for later' flag, you can add the page to your list of selected content.
• This list appears in the 'my collection' section of your personal Magazine and is only visible to you personally.
• Additionally, pages flagged/marked as 'save for later' will be available when your are creating a bundle or magazine in the field called 'resources'.

Search

• The search tool is available at the bottom of most pages.
• There is also a Search & Find page

Sharing knowledge & Rules

• All contributions and comments should be written and made in the spirit of WorldSupporter. Which means aiming to contribute to a tolerant and sustainable world.
• Comments and contributions that do not meet the requirements, or seem to be made for the wrong reasons can be removed or set on private.

Sustainable Development Goals

• On September 25th 2015, countries adopted a set of 17 goals to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development agenda. Each goal has specific targets to be achieved over the next 15 years.
• On WorldSupporter you can show other what actions you take to reach these goals and inspire others to follow your lead.
• The 17 goals are a framework - your personal actions are part of a worldwide movement for a stronger, sustainable world.

Tags & Taxonomy

• The tags and taxonomy give you insight in the amount of contributions that are tagged by authors on specific subjects.
• This type of navigation can help find content that you could have missed when just using the search tools.
• Tags are organised per activity, country, organization, subject or field of study.
• Note: not all content is tagged thoroughly, so when this approach doesn't give the results you were looking for, please check the search tool as back up.

WorldSupporters

• You can join WorldSupporter for free by creating a WorldSupporter Profile. After creating your own page you will have access to all content with the access level 'WorldSupporters only', that is uploaded and made by other Supporters.

Read more

• Read more about the WorldSupporter content options
• Register with JoHo WorldSupporter: starting page
• Summaries & Study Assistance - Starting page
• WorldSupporter.org - Start

What types of summaries and study assistance does WorldSupporter offer?

Summaries and study materials can be found in 6 different forms:

• Book summaries: give you insight into the main and side issues of the most essential and current literature in your field
• BulletPoint Summaries: ultra-short summaries displayed in bullets
• Article summaries: summaries of scientific articles that you will use during and after your studies
• ExamTickets: consist of short bullets with subject-oriented exam tips and sample questions, so that you know what you have to learn and how you should study
• ExamTests: consist of bundles of exam and practice questions that provide extra understanding, test your knowledge and give insight into the way in which an exam will be taken
• Study Notes & Sheets:  summaries of lectures, working groups that give you more insight into what is considered important by teachers.

Why add a Summary or Study Note?

• This content type allows you to explain a certain subject. This can be based on your own texts or on summarized versions of study material
• Many Supporters use this content type for university course material, but feel free to use it as a broad tool for knowledge transfer
• Always make sure that you do not violate copyright if you use material from others and make good use of source listings

How to add a Summary or Study Note?

• tip 1: by adding category tags your content will be easier to find by people with similar interests that not yet follow your account
• tip 2: bring several summaries together and create easier navigation for yourself and your followers
• tip 3: add an image in the 'image' field, because it will be used to highlight your contribution on your profile and other spotlight locations on WorldSupporter. Without an image your avatar will be used for these purposes.

Where to find or read more about Summaries or Study Notes

• Check out: Summaries & Study Assistance - Starting page
• Check out: Register with JoHo WorldSupporter: starting page (EN)
• Check out: Aanmelden bij JoHo WorldSupporter - startpagina (NL)

Where to add Summaries or Study Notes?

• Add a summary or Study Note