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CISV programmes and activities
The CISV international experience is based on some specific 3-4 week programmes:Village: A 3-4 week long programme for 11-year-old participants. Delegations from 10-14 countries come together and participate in activities promoting peace and understanding. Each delegation consists of two boys, two girls, and an adult leader.
Summer Camp: A three week programme for participants 13-15 years of age. Delegations include 4-6 participants and an adult leader. Some summer camps are single-gender.
Interchange: Involving only two countries, this programme spans two summers (occasionally winters). A delegation of 6-12 youth, aged 12-15, is selected from each participating country. In the first year, one delegation will travel to visit for one month with the other. The next year, the delegations reciprocate. Each delegation has one adult leader, and may also have a Junior Leader.
Seminar Camp: A three week programme for youth 17-18 in which there can be between 1-4 delegate from each participating country. Seminar Camps have a more direct educational approach, and youth are encouraged to form opinions on various world issues. Usually youth-directed, this program has only thirty participants in total.
More recently CISV has developed a new programme for older participants.
International People's Project: CISV's newest international programme is open to persons 19+ and is three weeks long. Participants participate in hands-on work contributing to a community project.
As well, CISV have chapters that hold local programmes that aim to share the CISV experience within the immediate community.
Junior Branch: a group of local CISVers (typically age 11-25) who carry out CISV programmes and activities in the local level.
Mosaic: a continuous program that provides peace education in the local level. CISV aims and goals are carried out in the local level to allow community interaction with CISV. It is suitable for all ages, and is ideal to involve people who had not participated in the international programmes.
