The Young Leaders program has evolved from ISAC’s earlier Meet Europe projects, which engaged high school students and picked the best ones to travel, see and experience the EU for the first time. This included seven groups of over a total of 150 high school students who had the opportunity to visit Denmark (2008-2009), Finland (2009-2010) or Poland (2010-2011). Four other groups of 40 high school students also had the opportunity, via an essay contest, to participate in the project Find Out What is NATO in Prague and Brussels in the period 2009-2012. In 2013, ISAC began its new leadership program, meant for university students and young professionals, dealing with training in policy writing, advocacy, and in-depth familiarization of foreign and security policy