Beginning of educational excursions and exchange programmes
1988
Certification as an educational institution (as member of the Ev. Erwachsenenbildungswerk Westfalen und Lippe e.V.) and as a youth welfare institution
1991
Foundation of the IBB gGmbH (comparable to the legal entity Non-profit limited company)
Laying of the cornerstone at the IBB Minsk in the presence of 400 participants and a delegation of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia
1994
Opening of the IBB Minsk
1998
Establishment of the magazine “Belarus-Perspektiven”
2000
“Aktiv gegen Rechts”: Programme to support anti-racist projects and organisations
2002
Start of the Belarus support programme
Contemporary witness project: Former forced labourers meet German pupils
“Fairplay in Europe”: Multilateral youth conference in Sarajevo
2003
Establishment of the History Workshop Minsk
2004
“Eurovisionen”: International youth conference as part of the Regional Weimar Triangle (French-German-Polish cooperation) on behalf of the Federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia
2006
20 Years after the nuclear accident at Chernobyl – Event at the Bundestag
A famous eponym: IBB “Johannes Rau” Minsk
2008
Commencement of ewoca3: three partners_three workcamps_three countries. Funding programme for youth work organisations in North Rhine-Westphalia (Stiftung Mercator)
2010
Establishment of the youth network Dortmund – Trabzon (Turkey)
20 Years of German Unification – Project with contemporary witnesses at schools
2011
IBB is awarded the “einheitspreis 2011 – Bürgerpreis zur Deutschen Einheit” (Citizens prize of German Unity)
Countrywide travelling exhibition and contemporary witness project: “25 Years after Chernobyl: People – Places – Solidarity”
1st German-Turkish Conference for trained professionals in Dortmund
2012
The programme “fokus”, giving culturally sensitive trainings to care workers, commences its second phase 2012-2014
Establishment of the History Workshop Chernobyl in Kharkiv
First Europe-wide action weeks “For a future after Chernobyl and Fukushima”
2014
Laying of the foundation stone for the Trostenez memorial
Celebrating 20 years of IBB ‘Johannes Rau’ Minsk
2015
The programme ‘DoKuMente – Intercultural mentors in Dortmund’ commences
The support of programmes on memorial places commences, in cooperation with Bethe foundation, the Federal States, and the Federal Government.