Though its main office is based in Brussels, GEF aims to reach out to people across Europe and in 2018 it organised 69 events in 17 different European countries.

[2] These events included conferences, seminars, workshops and summer schools that aimed to promote study and debate, and provide opportunities for capacity-building and networking.

To this end, GEF also runs training sessions for young people under its annual European Green Activists Training scheme, as well as providing free courses on its online educational platform Green Learning.

[4] Launched in 2012, the Green European Journal publishes in print and online articles and interviews on current affairs in Europe and general topics of significance to the European green movement.

As of January 2019, the following national foundations are represented in the General Assembly as full members:[6] The following are associate members: GEF's current directors (as of October 2019) are:[8] Media related to Green European Foundation at Wikimedia Commons