Jeunesses Musicales International (JMI) is the largest youth music NGO in the world, created in Brussels, Belgium in 1945 with the mission to "enable young people to develop through music across all boundaries". With a vast array of activities, JMI has established four priority activity fields: Young Musicians, Young Audiences, Youth Empowerment and Youth Orchestras & Ensembles.

79 million people in the European Union – or 16% of the population – currently live at risk of poverty. This violates EU principles of solidarity and social justice. In response, the European Commission has designated 2010 as the "European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion". The 2010 European Year aims to reach EU citizens and all public, social and economic stakeholders.

A European project titled “Seniors in Action” is an endeavour which manages to engage seniors over 55 years old who have a special capacity (honey producers, organic farmers, mathematicians, poets, chess players, painters, etc.) and to make them more active as informal educators for pupils. The project runs in the framework of the European Commission’s Lifelong Learning Programme, sub-programme Grundtvig.

On 12-14 June 2009 in Witten, Germany, EFFE - the European Forum for Freedom in Education - organises an innovative in-service training event for teachers, teacher trainees, educationalists and policy makers. The title of the conference is 'Creativity Genesis - How to bring creativity and innovation into education'.