IFSA provides a platform for students to enrich their formal education, promote cultural understanding by encouraging collaboration with international partners and organisations, and gain practical experiences with a wider and more global perspective.

Through its social network, IFSA encourages student meetings, enables participation in scientific debates, and supports the involvement of youth in decision-making processes and international forest and environmental policy.

The event, which was hosted in the UK for 13 years, aimed to provide forestry students with a platform for meeting their counterparts from other countries, discussing ideas, and creating an atmosphere of solidarity and inspiration.

In the 20th IFSS held in Italy, the third general assembly designated a central organ (the Secretariat), to be responsible for the association’s bureaucratic tasks, internal communications, and all INFOCENTRE duties.

Tree House is a project focused on creating a platform for offering and receiving accommodation world-wide for people to exchange culture, experiences and knowledge regarding forestry interests.

The EFI-IFSA-IUFRO project investigates the transforming employment trends in the forest sector while putting special focus on the perspective of students and recent graduates from around the world.

The project aims at providing insight into the future labour market including changing professional skills through systematic analysis of the development of employment in the forest sector globally.

For the workshop IFSA invited a senior and junior expert from each of the following 6 selected focus countries: Brazil, Finland, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa and the United States of America.

The trainee positions are intended to familiarize students of forestry programs with work at the science-policy-interface at the international level, including research, communication, and policy-relevant activities.

IFSA's primary community focuses on students of forestry and related sciences, but this stretches to include youth associations in other disciplines (such as agriculture, water, geography) and numerous professional organizations.