Our Members
Behind every cultural exchange are people who make it possible: organisations that bring communities together, families who open their homes and participants willing to discover a different way of life.
Federation EIL connects independent, nonprofit organisations around the world that share a belief in the power of these encounters. Through homestays, international education, volunteering and language learning, our members create opportunities for people to learn from one another and build understanding across cultures.
Each organisation brings its own history, local knowledge and approach. Together, they carry forward a belief at the heart of our movement: people learn to live together by living together.
Across Cultures Beyond Borders
Get to know the organisations behind the exchanges. Across Cultures, Beyond Borders is our series exploring what makes each Federation EIL partner distinctive, from the role of host families and volunteers to the ways international learning can inspire action at home.
Explore our members below. As the series unfolds, you’ll find a featured story alongside each organisation, offering a closer look at its work and the ideas that shape it.
AIPC Pandora
AIPC Pandora creates international learning opportunities that connect cultural exchange with global citizenship and social participation. Its work brings together volunteering, youth leadership and experiential education, encouraging young people to consider how they can contribute to their communities.
Through programmes and scholarship opportunities, it helps participants explore different perspectives and put their learning into practice.
CEI / Centre d’Echanges Internationaux
Groupe CEI helps young people discover other cultures through language learning, educational travel and international schooling opportunities. Founded in 1947, it brings experience in supporting learning beyond the classroom. Its programmes give participants opportunities to practise another language, build confidence and develop friendships while experiencing everyday life in a different cultural setting.
World Learning/US Experiment
The Experiment in International Living offers young people opportunities to learn through immersive international experiences. Its history began in 1932, with an approach to education rooted in personal encounters across cultures.
Through cultural activities and homestays, participants explore different ways of life, develop relationships and reflect on their place in a wider world.
EIL UK
EIL UK is a charity creating opportunities for people to learn through cultural exchange, volunteering and community participation.
By welcoming international visitors and supporting experiences abroad, it brings people from different backgrounds into contact.
Its work encourages understanding through shared activities and everyday conversations, with hosts and local communities taking part in the learning alongside visitors.
Experiment eV.
Experiment eV. has been running programs for over 85 years and has been an active member of Federation EIL from the very beginning. With over 1000 members and volunteers as well as 35 staff in Bonn, Germany, the organization supports over 2000 participants yearly in their intercultural encounters. From high school year and volunteering abroad to group exchanges and individual homestays for short and long term, Experiment e.V. organizes programs for all ages and with all continents.
EIL JAPAN
EIL Japan was founded in 1956 as an independent non-profit organization, and had been supported by the Ministry of Education since 1969.
In 2013 EIL was approved by the Cabinet Office as a public interest incorporated association.
EIL Japan offers a broad range of programs such as student exchange, individual homestay programs, and Japanese language programs.
EIL – Intercultural Learning
EIL Intercultural Learning is an Irish “not for profit” organisation which provides intercultural learning opportunities through study abroad, youth leadership, language training, travel awards, group educational programmes, and other cultural immersion activities for over 2,500 people each year.
The organisation celebrated 50 years in Ireland in 2014. In 2018 EIL became the 61st national member of the AFS Intercultural Programs Global Network
Experimento de Convivencia Internacional
In 2017, the Experiment in International Living in Ecuador celebrated its 40-year anniversary constructing a culture of peace through understanding between Ecuador and the world.
EIL Ecuador is a non-profit organization that offers intercultural exchange, volunteer programs and language instruction to Ecuadorians and participants from around the world.
Experiment Italia
The Experiment Italia was born in 1953. It is part of the Federation, international, a non-profit
organization whose main objective is to create opportunities in global learning experiences.
The language, the social background, religion and gender orientation are a positive stimulation in order to create new contacts and understandings.
The Experiment Italia has a central office in Asti but many coordinators all over Italy and the main purpose is to create a collaboration between the different parts of the territory so that a participant can see how a single country can show different cultures.
The inbound programmes are intended to create a deep understanding.
We offer programs for both young students and also adults.
PEI-PROGRAMAS EDUCATIVOS INTERCULTURALES, A.C.
Programas Educativos Interculturales A.C. is a non-profit organisation whose main objective is to create opportunities for individuals to get involved in global learning experiences.
It was founded in 2006 by a group of volunteers with a strong desire to continue the project started in Mexico in 1950 by Dr. Donald Watt and Bárbara B. de Gómez, pioneers in the field of the international living experiences and development of intercultural awareness.
FEDERATION EIL INTERNATIONAL OFFICE
Federation EIL (FEIL) is a global network of international exchange organizations that share a common mission, vision and educational goals.
Federation EIL members are privately run, non-profit, non-political, and non-religious organizations.
As the first hosting organization in the world, Federation EIL is a worldwide authority in quality international programming, with more than eight decades of national and international leadership in cultural exchanges.