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CIF World News

The latest WN Spring 2012 is sent to the National Branches and Contact persons on March 19th. It can be uploaded here (PDF). At the WN's page 18 you can read more about the 30th CIF International Conference on June 3-8,2013 in Ankara,Turkey. Conference Theme is "ENCOUNTERS in a GLOBAL WORLD Threats and Opportunities". More information also at CIF Turkey's web site.

CIF International Professional Exchange Programs 2012

You can still apply for professional exchange programs (PEP) for 2012. The additional information of the PEPs with deadline latter (PDF) this spring you will find on the home pages of the hosting country or ın flyers here (updated March 5th, 2012) : Aotearoa/New Zealand (PDF), Argentina (PDF), (en español) (PDF), France (PDF), Italy (PDF), the Netherlands (PDF) the deadline May 1st and Tanzania (PDF).

And presenting newly approved National Branch of CIF Nepal's first professional exchange program Nepal (PDF)

CIF 2011 Cyprus Conference

You find the highlights of the last CIF conference in Nicosia here. More fotos by Dieter Bettels you can view at the CIF German pages.

CIF 50 years highlights

CIF International celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2010 on August 27-29 in Hamburg, Germany, where CIF was founded in 1960 (PDF). See the Symposium book leaf (PDF). Pictures from the Symposium by Dieter Bettels.

Memories about the First CIP in Reverse Program (PDF), in Hamburg 1958.

A personal view by a German board member CIF International and the German “Zeitgeist” in the Fifties (PDF).

CIP 1960 German group ready onboard.