SEEDS works closely with local communities, local authorities, individuals and other Icelandic associations both to develop projects in partnership, aimed at fulfilling an identified need, and to give vital assistance to established initiatives. Projects are designed to be mutually beneficial to all involved: the volunteers, the local hosting communities and Iceland as a whole.
Our projects in Iceland are supported by the local hosts and the volunteers participating in the project themselves; additionally we receive strong support for our long-term projects from the Youth in Action and Life Long Learning programmes of the European Commission.
Since 2005 SEEDS has hosted nearly 8000 international and local volunteers in our projects all around Iceland. In this time we increased our work with various environmental and conservation projects, we raised the number of projects related to culture, cultural activities, festivals & sports gatherings, and experimented with a number of new project concepts, including language and environmental education projects.
During 2015 we organised about 140 projects located in every corner of Iceland; we hosted over 1200 international volunteers from 50 different countries, performing over 75.000 hours of valuable volunteer work. Since 2010 SEEDS has also sent sent over 100 Icelanders to projects around the world.
