By now EDYN has 17 members from 14 countries all in all, and have reached the number of 500 volunteers / year within the network and partner organisations. Let’s have a short look how this incredible volunteer number increased during the last half century. 

• Diaconal Year in Germany since post-war period
• Voluntary youth exchange between France and Germany
• France, Belgium, Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark: loose relationship since 1980s
• Yearly meetings since 1992 (Strasbourg)
• Creation of EDYN in 1993
• Same year: Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, United States of America and the United Kingdom had their first formal meeting as a network.  They set up a goal of increasing their foreign volunteer exchanges to 10 %
• Membership in AVSO since 1994
• Help to churches in Central and Eastern Europe and Italy to develop voluntary service programs since 1996
• EDYN RGDTS: First multilateral project in 2003
• Formal incorporation in NL in 2005
• New members from the US
• Development of standards, formalization
• Establishment of EDYN office in 2008
• Formal incorporation in Hungary in 2009