What a Year!
After turning to our past in 2024 with our 40th anniversary celebrations, 2025 was very much about looking forward and strategising around the future of IGLYO and the LGBTQI youth movement as a whole. We notably adopted a solid new Strategic Plan for the four years ahead as well as new internal policies that make the network more equitable and accessible for organisations led by underprivileged communities.
This year was not short on achievements. Besides our continued work with European institutions and through advocacy events, we continued our work on inclusive education, including the launch of our updated LGBTQI Inclusive Education Map, Index & Report on a brand new website, new tools for policymakers and educators, our Proud Pupils Conference in Barcelona, and our Education Mentorship Programme that supported six member-led national projects working on inclusive education.
We also increased our advocacy efforts for inclusion in sport with a new IGLYO Publication and an international youth conference in Brussels. And we developed our work in health and trans rights, including strategic coordination and new research on trans-specific healthcare.
But that's not all: Our programmes this year such as the Activist Academy in Tampere trained and built the capacities of over 100 LGBTQI young people and activists; our Annual Members’ Conference in Zurich saw a record number of 98 Members present or represented via proxy; our IGLYO Grants Programme supported 5 Member-led projects in Czechia, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, and Sweden; our Board and staff represented the voice of LGBTQI youth in over 90 advocacy, policy & research events; and our online posts were seen over 1.5 million times.
This is only a fraction of the achievements you will find in our Annual Report 2025, which offers an in-depth overview of our activities in 2025 through highlights, photos, resources, and links. The Report includes sections on our current structure, our membership composition, as well as all our events, programmes, policy actions, research outputs, and communication activities in 2025. Feel free to jump to the last section for a complete sneak peek at our activities planned in 2026!
Thank you
First of all, thank you to all our Member Organisations for their dedication and trust. We also thank our many partner organisations and colleagues in other youth and LGBTQI NGOs, Intergroups, and institutions for collaborating on the same goals. We furthermore extend a warm thank you to the donors who have supported our work this year, and to our funders for their long-standing support. And of course, a warm thank you to all the bodies of the organisation, the IGLYO Board, the Secretariat, the Anti-Racism Panel and the Governance Team for turning this work into a reality every day.
Thank you for 2025, and see you all in 2026 for another year of queer youth activism!