ENCATE launched the Bilateral Exchange Program in 2024 to enhance learning and exchange beyond the limited scope of large meetings with numerous participants. Intensive bilateral exchanges allow practitioners to gain in-depth knowledge and firsthand insights into another organization’s approaches, methods, programs, and local context through a structured visit program.

The organization hosting international practitioners also benefits from the program by receiving valuable insights and experiences from the visiting practitioners. This program is properly named “bilateral exchange” because it provides enormous mutual benefits to both the sending and host organizations, as well as to the visiting practitioners.