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At the training camp you will learn how to execute the exercises that are already designed. You will also learn to identify democracy muscles relevant in your context and to design an engaging 30 minutes exercise yourself. You will be able to go back home and immediately start building a better democracy.

We are a group of students, journalists, politicians, cultural practitioners and European experts. The Stiftung Zukunft Berlin, the Walter Hallstein Institute at Humboldt University, Berlin and the International Journalists’ Programmes e.V. have jointly launched this initiative in 2017. We are supported by Stiftung Mercator.

We Make the City is a festival that makes cities better. For five days in a row, we tackle urgent everyday challenges in the urban environment together with audience and experts, spread across different locations in the Amsterdam metropolitan area.

The transeuropa e. V. is a non-profit association founded in 1993 by students of the University of Hildesheim to support and connect the young performing arts in Europe. In order to do so, the transeuropa – European Festival for Performing Arts takes place in Hildesheim every three years.

"Kunstwerke sollen daran erinnern, dass die Menschheit die Aufgabe hat, eine soziale Einheit zu werden."* The mission of Steine ohne Grenzen is based on the vision of jewish artist Otto Freundlich* (murdered 1943 in KZ Sobibor); he had this concept thought out in 1930-35 of building a road of monuments for peace and understandig between nations from Paris to Moscow.

.SprachCafè Polnisch e.V. organizes meet-ups, seminars and a wide range of events, all of which stand in a tradition that embraces an intercultural and pluralistic society with basic and joint values like the freedom of speech and mutual acceptance and esteem.

The network "Senioren für Europa“ is lead by EUROP'age Saar-Lor-Lux e.V., technical and pedagogical support is provided by Centre Européen Robert Schuman (CERS) aus Scy-Chazelles.

he project Sehnsucht Europa was initiated in Bremen in 2016, when the discussions on refugees policy, european borders, immigration laws and Brexit became heated.

Five universities from four countries with five affiliated partners from Heritage & Culture. The Netherlands Business Academy, University of Bologna, ÌSES Inst. for Social and European Studies, Fondazione Flaminia, Fundacion Academia Europea e Iberoamaricana de Yuste, The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University and affiliate partners.

European voters will elect a new European Parliament in May 2019 - but as in every election, younger voters will disproportionately be absent. We want to change that.

We are Thorbecke Academie, part of NHL- Stenden University of Applied Sciences, based in Leeuwarden, North Netherlands. As part of our students 2nd Year curriculum we set up a research project in cooperation with Wir Sind Europa, to find out what the major issues are confronting the EU in future and what ordinary citizens think about these issues.

In 2017a small group of young people from Berlin, launched a multilevel campaign - online and offline - that reached a young public. The aim was to give visibility to pro-European forces and to the positive basic principles of the EU and its achievements so far.

Talking Europe is digital platform promoting democracy through digital dialogue before the European Elections 2019. It aims at bursting filter bubbles through connecting people with different political opinions into 1:1 chats.

Destructive Creation is a Bulgaria – based collective of anonymous artists working in the field of public art, political activism and art intervention. Their projects interact with existing artworks, monuments, spaces, audiences, social and political situations.

We are a danish NGO called Demokratiscenen. In collaboration with Byens hus Roskilde (collaborative citizenhouse) and the activistic com WE DO DEMOCRACY we have developed this concept designed to identify and exercise the "democracy muscles", that we all poses. Our project has won the Advocate Europe Idea Challenge.

We are a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Erfurt, founded in 2005 and run by young professionals. Our funding comes from European, national, and local public institutions as well as independent foundations such as the European Commission, the German Foreign Ministry or the Robert Bosch Foundation.

National Youth and Children's Palace, Stichting Caucasus Foundation, A Soul For Europe, European Cultural Parliament and Arts Research Institute established Academy for Cultural Diplomacy in Tbilisi. Project is funded by the National Youth and Children's Palace.

Cluj Cultural Centre is an NGO, based in Cluj, Romania. Initiated in 2011 to prepare the city’s candidature for the European Capital of Culture 2021, the Centre implements since 2017 a comprehensive program addressing strategic urban challenges.

The concept of the BookboXX emerged over four years step by step. Towards the end of the UNESCO Decade for Sustainabiliy Education (DESD) 15 BookboXXes are actually installed. Two of them were built in co-operation with French partners.

berlinxcalling.com is the first Greek language website about Berlin. This digital platform is initially aimed at Greek-speaking residents, newcomers and tourists of the city with the aim of integrating them into the life of the city and the mentality of its people.

Was ist U18? U18 ist die Wahl für alle Kinder und Jugendlichen. Neun Tage vor "echten" Wahlen dürfen alle unter 18 ihre Stimme abgeben, unter nur leicht veränderten Bedingungen. Die Ergebnisse werden ausgewertet und veröffentlicht. U18 kann sowohl im Rahmen von Landes- und Bundestagswahlen als auch im Rahmen von Europawahlen durchgeführt werden.

Im 4. und 5. Jahrtausend v. Chr. entstanden in Europa von Südskandinavien bis in den Mittelmeerraum monumentale Steinbauten, die sowohl zu kultischen Zwecken als auch als Begräbnisplätze genutzt wurden. Sie künden von der Entschlossenheit ihrer Erbauer, sesshaft zu werden, Siedlungen zu errichten und Ackerbau und Viehzucht zu betreiben.

'Cities4Europe - Europe for citizens' is the EUROCITIES campaign that aims at: - involve citizens in a dialogue about the future - inspire all levels of government to build societies where people come first - impact the way decisions are taken in Europe

2012 gründeten Touristiker, Archäologen und Naturwissenschaftler das Netzwerk Megalithic Routes, um den Denkmalen der Megalithkultur zu neuer Aufmerksamkeit zu verhelfen. Bei diesen Denkmalen handelt es sich um die ältesten Kulturdenkmale Europas. Sie entstanden in der Jungsteinzeit im 6. - 4. Jt. v. Chr.

Half a century of independent thinking, acting,policy making and international cooperation, in search for the active citizen in Europe. No vivid cities without civic initiatives and the citizenship component in cultural practices

Half a century of independent thinking, acting,policy making and international cooperation, in search for the active citizen in Europe. No vivid cities without civic initiatives and the citizenship component in cultural practices

16 journalists, 8 border cities, 1 documentary and multiple languages. For the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of Polish independence, Cafébabel publishes a new multimedia storytelling project exploring Poland and its borders.

Ein Vorzeigebeispiel aktiver Bürgerschaft Hauptanliegen aller Mitarbeiter der Ilztalbahn ist es, die vorhandene, intakte Schieneninfrastruktur zu erhalten und zu betreiben. Die Ilztalbahn hat ihren ganz eigenen Charme und ist inzwischen weithin bekannt und Vorbild für andere Reaktivierungsbemühungen. Alle arbeiten ehrenamtlich.

The Molyvos International Music Festival (MIMF) is a unique project for the north Aegean region that brings together renowned young soloists creating various ensemble formations especially for the days of the festival for a celebration of world-class classical music. MIMF has two "legs": 1) The main Festival and 2) the Educational Programmes.

Die Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt ist ein gemeinnütziger Verein, der seit 1981 besteht. Im Zentrum unserer Arbeit stehen Alltagsgeschichte und die Geschichte "von unten", wobei wir die Erinnerungsarbeit nicht als Selbstzweck verstehen. Wir wollen anhand des Schicksals der NachbarInnen am Wohnort Zeitgeschichte und die Verantwortung der nachfolgenden Generationen nachvollziehbar machen.

In partnership with the local branch of the Stichting Caucasus Foundation “International Bureau for “Caucasian Cultural Programmes”, the Arts Research Institute and the National Youth and Children's Palace, the international movement “A Soul for Europe” organized workshops and meetings with civil society in Tbilisi from October 12th to 14th.

We are a group of people from Berlin. Our mission is to fill the city-partnership between Berlin-Pankow and Kolobrzeg (Kolberg) with life. We organize projects, exchanges, youth projects, sports projects and more with partners in Poland. "Freunde Kolbergs e.V." exists for 20 years now.

The project on the Founding Mothers of Europe was promoted by Maria Pia Di Nonno, a PhD Student in History of Europe at Sapienza University of Rome (2015 - 2018).

The University of Aberdeen’s Politics and International Relations Society together with “A Soul For Europe”, organised a half a day Forum on the University of Aberdeen campus on 6th of October 2017. The Politics and International Relations society is a society for those studying the subject, but also for anyone interested in current affairs and politics.

The Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme (www.coe.int/routes) was launched by the Council of Europe in 1987 with the Santiago de Compostela Declaration.

Der Club der Polnischen Versager e.V. ist ein eingetragener gemeinnütziger Verein in Berlin. Der Club der Polnischen Versager hat seinen Sitz in der Ackerstrasse 169, in Berlin Mitte. Der Ort ist für jedermann zugänglich. Der CPV engagiert sich vor allem im soziokulturellen und soziopolitischen Bereich.

We are Europeans from all horizons and generations united in the belief that it is time to re-invent modern democracy, to bridge the representative gap between the EU and its citizens, and create the first European civic space where continuous participative democracy can flourish. The initial project period will bring us to the May 2019 European Elections.

Seit 2004 wird von alternativen Fußballern aus Europa die alternative Europameisterschaft im Großfeldfußball (aem) durchgeführt. Die 13. aem findet vom 8.-10.06.2018 in Novalja, Kroatien statt. Die Kosten tragen die Teams selbst.

NEXT GENERATION, PLEASE! is an ambitious civic engagement project designed to use culture to empower young people to participate in the democratic process. With the help of artists and decision-makers, NGP! stimulates new thinking amongst the younger generation around the complexity of living together and civic responsibility in today’s world.

25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the editorial project BEYOND ’91 presents seven feature reports by the Perestroïka Generation, as seen by themselves.

Called the “Begegnungschor” - roughly translated as the “getting-to-meet-you” choir meanwhile has become kind of a big big international musical family.

The project was carried out between December 2015 and September 2017 by the Association for the Protection of Cultural Heritage & Paros Magazine. It was supported by the Actors of Urban Change Program (by Robert Bosch Stiftung and MitOST), the Sisli Municipality, the Open Society Foundation-Turkey and the Kurtuluş Greek School Foundation.

An der rasanten Radikalisierung des politischen Lebens wirkt vieles bedrohlich. Nach Brexitvotum und Trump können wir aber nicht in Schockstarre verharren. Denn im Jahr 2017 finden entscheidende Wahlen in mehreren europäischen Ländern statt.

Das Projekt MitMachMusik fördert das Selbstbewusstsein und die Integration von geflüchteten Kindern und Jugendlichen durch Musizieren und Singen.

A number of uncomfortable paradoxes hinder the full cooperation relationship between citizens and local governments. There are several obstacles in the interactions between citizens and local governments. Those are persistent and have the form of a paradox, an apparent contradiction. Paradoxes are tough and maintain problems. A natural immune response would be to ignore them.

Das Kiezcafé unseres Vereins ist ein wöchentlich stattfindender Nachbarschaftstreff für Mütter und Kinder unterschiedlicher Milieus, Kulturen und Religionen. Hier bieten wir Lernbausteine und Freizeitangebote an und fördern das soziale Miteinander und gegenseitigen Respekt vor verschiedenen weltanschaulichen und religiösen Traditionen.

Hausbesuch Europa (Home Visit Europe) is a performance you can put in your hand luggage - big ideas are rarely presented so intimately. What is Europe actually? Is it a geographic border, a cultural identity, a coalition of states? It is said over and over that Europe is an ever changing idea - too theoretical, as the individual can tell from their own experience.

We want to make people feel European by giving them the chance to experience Europe. Route 28 brings the journey through Europe right into your city. On Saturday, 6th May 2017 (right before Europe Day), we will transform 15-20 places in Vienna into European countries that participants can experience first hand.

Wirtschaftlich denken. Sozial handeln. magdas HOTEL ist Teil der – von der Caritas der Erzdiözese Wien im April 2012 gegründeten – Social Business Gruppe. Ziel ist es soziale Fragen, wo immer es sinnvoll und möglich erscheint, unternehmerisch zu lösen.

The EU eTwinning programme has been establishing connections between schools and pre-school institutions in Europe since 2005. eTwinning facilitates the creation of unbureaucratic partnerships to promote joint learning activities. German institutions can also cooperate with each other, and eTwinning offers a wide range of opportunities for professional exchanges.

Das Interkulturelle Zentrum (IZ) wurde im April 2012 ins Leben gerufen und ist inzwischen eine Einrichtung der Stadt Heidelberg, in der sich Menschen mit und ohne Migrationsgeschichte begegnen und austauschen können. Das IZ repräsentiert und stärkt die Vielfalt der Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner der Stadt.

Cafébabel is the first European participatory magazine made for young Europeans across borders. Cafébabel is published in 6 languages - English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish - and relies on a network of 1,500 volunteer authors, translators, photographers and filmmakers in Europe. On Cafébabel, we talk about Europe “in Real Life”.

An der Ostfassade von ST. AGNES wird aus 33 Neonröhren der Schriftzug ‚EUROPA‘ montiert, um ein leuchtendes Zeichen zu setzen. Lange Zeit wurde das europäische Projekt für eine selbstverständliche Entwicklung gehalten, die überwiegend Vorteile für alle Beteiligten generierte.

Das EU-Kooperationsprojekt zielt darauf ab für Künstler den Arbeitsmarkt Europa zu öffnen, die transnationalen Fähigkeiten, Techniken und Kapazitäten von Künstlern zu stärken, sowie die Idee des Community-Dance in Europa weiter zu verbreiten, neue Zuschauergruppen und Aktive zu gewinnen. "Wer miteinander Tanzen kann, kann auch miteinander leben."

Give Something Back To Berlin e.V. (GSBTB) is an initiative to connect new Berliners with social organisations and making it easier to give something back to a city we love.

European Prize for Urban Public Space is biennial competition organised with aim to encourage recovering, improvement and creation of public space and its capacity of fostering social cohesion, understanding public space as clear indicator of civic and collective helth of European cities.

Vom 16. bis 20. Juni 2015 steht Osnabrück zum dritten Mal ganz im Zeichen des YEAH! Festivals. Fünf Tage lang ist das musikalische Europa zu Gast in der Stadt und verwandelt sie in einen farbenfrohen Marktplatz aktueller Musikproduktionen für junge und jung gebliebene Ohren. Herzstück des diesjährigen Festivals ist das große Zirkuszelt auf dem Domplatz. Hier heißt es ab dem 16.

International design triennial for social innovation

How can the Renaissance and its values be useful for the reflection and the debate on nowadays Europe is the central question that the 'RenEU : New Renaissance in Europe' project aims to answer. 'RenEU: New Renaissance in Europe' is project promoted by six institutions from Italy, Portugal, Spain, France and Poland.

Transeuropa Caravans is 6 caravans crossing 18 countries, stopping on over 60 locations across the continent to meet with social movements, organisations, and citizens ahead of the European Elections. Visit us, follows us, get in touch on www.citizenspact.eu

Youth Culture Dialogue - United in Cultural Diversity is a training seminar supported trough the Youth in Action Program – Action 3.1 and organized by The Cultural Centre of Novi Sad, Serbia together with partners from 13 different countries.

The European Senior Online Academy offers elderly people the chance for superior further education. It implies extensive online information as well as face-to-face seminars in different European cities. Moreover, ESOA archives personal experiences of the older generation with the European integration process from falling into oblivion.

The project co-financed by the European Parliament, is addressed to secondary school students from Wrocław (over 17,000 participants). The main idea is not only to educate but also to engage the youth in creative activity and give them a chance to express their views on important issues.

What can be done against the crisis? Citizens across Europe are currently taking the initiative to re-appropriate urban space and to redefine the relation between value, profit and public good. We call them We-Traders. Through public fora, a multi-lingual webpage and a travelling exhibition we create a platform for new ideas to counter the crisis.

Go green! was an international youth encounter in 2012 that invited adolescents from Germany, Latvia and Poland to discuss ecological problems of European dimension in creative, cultural, natural or fictional ways!

Community Focus Ltd promotes European identity and understanding between people from different backgrounds and cultures within the UK and beyond.

Connecting Cities is a European and worldwide expanding network aiming to build up a connected infrastructure of media facades, urban screens and projection sites to circulate artistic and social content. Supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union, the CCN was founded by Public Art Lab in 2012 and currently involves 17 partners.

The exhibition, research and debate project WARRIORS – GENERATION - EUROPE creates the portrait of a European generation and showcases the human face behind Europe in times of crisis and uncertainty. To this end, it is set to travel across 30 European cities within and outside of the EU.

The "Junge Europäische Bewegung Berlin-Brandenburg e.V." (JEB) is a non party, independent youth organization and the Berlin-Brandenburg section of the Young European Federalists. It is a Europe-wide network of about 25,000 members in over 35 countries.

The Young Europe program is developed under the umbrella of the European Theatre Convention and founded by the European Commission. Since 2008 theatres from all over Europe create new plays for a young audience, dealing with identification and the future of Europe. In all productions young people are invited to participate in the process of writing

European Alternatives is a civil society organisation devoted to exploring the potential for transnational politics and culture. We believe that today the challenges of democratic participation, social equality, and cultural innovation cannot be effectively understood and addressed at the nation state level.

lit:potsdam - a new literature festival for Potsdam and Brandenburg will celebrate its start in August. In Potsdam, city with a strong historical importance, international and regional authors will come together for lectures and discussions. This year, the festival will open with a pop up venue of three days from August 30th until September 1st.

I AM EUROPE is an exploratory expedition into the heart of the European Citizenship concept. Through this project we want to learn what citizens’ participation can mean in a European context, and find out what is needed so that European citizens get more involved in EU policymaking.

On the occasion of the anniversary of a speech held by Charles de Gaulle to the young people of Germany the City of Ludwigsburg and the Franco-German Institute jointly organized a “Forum for Young People on participation in Europe – It’s our Europe”. Young people from all over Europe took part and discussed urgent questions in Europe.

SUPERNOVAPOETRY.NET is a growing poetry portal, platform set to investigate Europe's memory, create and share experience of urban life, our perception of changes, differences, causes and consequences of destructive past, traumas and geo political turmoils. With gratitude for his work, SUPERNOVAPOETRY.NET is dedicated to Mr. Michael Zeeman.

TheEuroDEMOS Association carried out the European project “Sport as a path to active citizenship” from 5 to 16 March 2013 in Iasi, Romania. The project has been funded with support from the European Commission through the "Youth in Action" Program. The participants came from Bulgaria, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Spain, Romania and Turkey.

Mix!t is a forum for education and research related to societal Diversity. We offer courses and lectures on societal diversity and the universality of rites of passage as a means for more tolerance in society. Furthermore we organise exhibitions and coordinate practice oriented research on marital migration, integration, immigration etc.

The Great War – Between the Lines project will work with partners in the UK, Northern France and Belgium to develop a range of activities, events and materials in the run up to the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War in 2014.

Cityzer is an internet platform where everyone can upload their videos with impressions from different European cities. The platform aims to show the cultural diversity of Europe and to trigger a discussion among its users about Europe, around a variety of topics such as food, street art, music, language etc.

The initiative “I want Europe” invites every citizen to express and share their commitment for and thoughts about Europe. The initiative’s aim is to draw attention to Europe’s benefits, to what has already been achieved, to the considerable successes and to the future of Europe. Besides its website, the initiative appears in adverts and TV ads.

The "Fabrica de Pensule" is Romania's first big conversion project, which transformed an old industrial building for cultural purposes. The project was initiated by 60 artists, cultural players, and cultural managers. The aim was to establish a space in Cluj to promote the creation of contemporary art and its public presentation.

The permanent exhibition 'Cultural Contacts. Living in Europe' is the first ever display of a cross-section of all the Museum of European Culture’s diverse collections. It examines discussions on social movements and social boundaries. Some important points are the different forms of cultural identity as well as the cultural and economic exchange.

Since 2009 the PODIUM Festival Esslingen has turned an entire city into a podium for classical music for two weeks. The initiators created sponsorships between musicians from across Europe and elementary school children from Esslingen, Germany. The project shows the great extent to which an innovative cultural initiative can impact a city.

The New Amber Road will be a starting point for the European cultural cooperation network created by the city of Riga as part of the European Capital of Culture programme. It will unite the cities along the ancient amber trade route in a new, interdisciplinary partnership.

The border drawn between Denmark and Germany after World War I in 1920 has left its marks up to the present day and still exists in people’s minds, even now that the Schengen Agreement is in place. We see our venue as a place for cultural encounters that can be used to exchange views in order to gain a better understanding of past developments.

Ravenna is running for the European Capital of Culture 2019 title. One of the main assets of the Ravenna 2019 bid is the participatory process concerning the urban regeneration of the old harbour area, the Darsena. The project started in September 2011.

Créajeune is a film competition geared towards the young generation in the Greater Region of Saarland, Lorraine, Luxembourg, Wallonia and Rhineland-Palatinate (SaarLorLux). Several juries made up of children, young people and young adults then award prizes in each of the three age categories.

In their search for an overnight accommodation in Sibiu/Romania in the year 2000, trade journeymen travelling abroad came into contact with a Protestant pastor who provided a place for them to stay. Today, the association connects journeymen and locals to facilitate a better exchange of information and collaboration on various projects.

The aim of “A Soul for Europe” is to implement concrete steps and conduct projects to ensure that Europe makes greater and better use of its cultural assets. In the process, culture should be utilized more than in the past as a strategic factor for development – at the local, regional, national and European level.