The International Parliamentary Forum (IPF) is a platform for inter-parliamentary exchange for young professionals throughout Europe. Through the organization of conferences in national parliaments throughout Europe, IPF offers a space for debate about the interaction of parliamentary systems and democracy and promotes a deepening of understanding of the different European political systems among the participants.

Who are we? We are four former scholars from the International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS) of the German Bundestag from 2014 – Antoni Fournier (France), Jekaterina Grigorjeva (Latvia), Dren Ajeti (Kosovo) and, Joseph Verbovszky (USA). Already during the scholarship, we had decided to work together to promote and encourage a lively and productive cooperation between democracy and parliamentarianism. For this purpose we decided to found the International Parliamentary Forum (IPF).