In the 90s, seminars were organised to strengthen the Eastern European region in France, Hungary, Romania, and Russia. They focused on different topics (campaigning, strengthening participation, etc.) and were instrumental in establishing a network of organisations in Eastern Europe, many of which have unfortunately now collapsed.

Hosted by Antar Bharati, IFM-SEI organised an International Seminar on Child Labour in the Era of Globalisation.

The IFM-SEI Pedagogical Briefcase ‘Fighting against Child Sexual Abuse’ was realised with the support of the European Youth Foundation.

IFM-SEI was very active in the area of Reproductive Health Education. In Latin America, Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, a series of seminars took place to tackle this taboo subject and to train peer educators to work on this topic.

This strategy aimed to make member organisations and IFM-SEI more inclusive, and led to many new initiatives and projects such as ‘All Together 2.0’ and ‘Resist!’

Since 2008, IFM-SEI regularly hosted EVS volunteers and, from 2011-2015, also coordinated volunteering programmes between member organisations.

The secretariat still hosts volunteers today under the same concept but different name European Solidarity Corps.

With the project ‘All Together Against Climate Change’ (ATACC) in 2011, we created a European network of peer educators who received professional training on media and communication and climate change to transmit to their local youth groups and broader communities.

The main aim of ‘Rainbow Resources’ is to empower and support young people to facilitate human rights education with children through developing LGBTQIA* educational resources, tackling heteronormativity and increasing understanding of gender and sexuality amongst children.

The aim of ‘Volunteering against Poverty’ (2012) was to develop a strong network of young volunteers from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America to raise awareness on youth poverty and the struggle for decent work by producing educational tools and a thought provoking and inspiring documentary. 24 young volunteers worldwide have been trained in peer education and documentary-making to facilitate local video projects.

The Co-operAction project in 2013 aimed to promote the cooperative model of enterprise to young people through education, exchange, and practical experience of setting up cooperative enterprises in 11 local communities.

Partnerships for Participation was a project aiming to increase the quality and quantity of young people’s participation in the democratic life of ten communities in Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America through building genuine and sustainable partnerships between young people, youth organisations, schools and local authorities.

IFM-SEI organised two in 2015 seminars, one focussed on Mediation. How can young educators become mediators for youth organisations or schools? The other one dealt with political conflicts and wars-what causes these conflicts? Who gains? How are children and young people affected?