A brief history of ICFPTA is as follows:

1^st ICFPTA: Marseille, France, June 5-9, 1989

2^nd ICFPTA: Halifax, Canada, June 9-14, 1991

3^rd ICFPTA: Sevilla, Spain, June 25-29, 1995

4^th ICFPTA: Kazimierz Dolny, Lublin, Poland, June 23-28, 1997

5^th ICFPTA: Haifa, Israel, June 13-19, 2001

6^th ICFPTA: Valencia, Spain, July 13-19, 2003

7^th ICFPTA: Guanajuato, Mexico, July 17-23, 2005

8^th ICFPTA: Chiang Mei, Thailand, July 16-22, 2007

9^th ICFPTA: Changhua, Taiwan, China, July 16-22, 2009

10^th ICFPTA: Cluj-Napoca, Romania, July 9-15, 2012

11^th ICFPTA: Istanbul, Turkey, July 20-24, 2015

12^th ICFPTA: Newcastle, Australia, July 24-28, 2017

13^th ICFPTA: Henan Normal University, China, July 9-13, 2019