NECSE

The seventh edition of the Northern European Cooperation of Sex Education projects (NECSE) will be held in the Netherlands from the 2nd till the 5th of April 2010 during the weekend of Easter.
The NECSE is an annually returning international conference about sex education projects.
This conference is hosted by members of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA).
IFMSA-members from twelve Northern European countries are participating in the conference. All participants are involved in the organisation of a sex education project in their home country.

Participating countries

The participating countries are; Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Because of the similar cultural backgrounds and the similar level of development of the sex education projects in these countries the conference will be of high educational value. 
All twelve above mentioned Northern European countries possess a large amount of knowledge and experience with sex education projects.  Unfortunately this knowledge and experience is very often restricted and there is not enough exchange between the different countries about these projects. The NECSE was created in August 2003 to fill in these gaps. Because we realize that our meetings are very effective and appreciated, we decided to organize the NECSE-2010.

Goal

Our goal is to exchange knowledge and experience about sex education projects that exist in different Northern European countries.

Target group

The target group are the students who are involved in the sex education projects. These students are called ‘Local Officers on Reproductive health including AIDS (LORA)’ and ‘National Officers on Reproductive health including AIDS (NORA)’. NECSE 2010 can accommodate approximately 60 international guests.

Indirectly the many peer-educators in the countries of the participants are also a target group  of the NECSE. The participants will take the new knowledge home and share this with their peer-educators to improve the sex education programs in their own countries. By doing so the thousands of high-school students that receive peer-education will benefit from the NECSE.