Travel through 70 years of CIFE's history! With images of the founding years, the first programmes for young people in the 1960s, opening to participants from Eastern Europe and beyond in the 1980s, up to today's rich and diverse offer of itinerant Master programmes welcoming students from all over the world.
A lot has changed since 1954, but CIFE's commitment to "Shaping Europe's Future Through Education" remains steadfast. We look forward to the next 70 years of our organisation, which promise change and continuity.
This short video features highlights of 70 years of engagement for European education. CIFE was founded in 1954, at a moment of crisis of European integration: The European Defence Community had failed, and it was uncertain how the process of unifying Europe could be continued. The founders of CIFE considered that education was the most important tool to advance the cause of a united Europe: educating citizens, future leaders and multipliers who would embrace this idea and devote their professional lives to implement it. Since 1954, CIFE has been an important stakeholder in European education.