"Musik für Gera e.V." (DE), Association MISSISSIPPI MUD (FR), Artist & Event ManagementAEM OG (AT), Bremme & Hohensee (DE)

The Fête de la Musique itself is of an international and unifying character. With our special project, we would like to promote the friendship between Germany-France-Poland at the citizen level via the medium of music. In addition, we will integrate Austria into the project. We want to show that music connects people across language barriers. The performance of the four jazz bands will have a special place in the Fête program.

Bildquelle: Fête de la Musique

UrbaMonde (FR), id22 - institut für kreative Nachhaltigkeit (DE), LVCW (Landelijke Vereniging Centraal Wonen) (NL)

Community-Led initiatives provide innovative and inclusive responses to the housing crisis, to demographic change and social inequalities in European cities. While housing cooperatives, Land Trusts, CoHousing groups and others are connected through local networks, a coordinated action at the European level is required to strengthen the movement and develop better public policies. This workshop provides a platform of exchange for key actors during the EXPERIMENTDAYS 17 in Berlin.

Bildquelle: id22 Archive - Larisa Tsvetkova

Association Radio Zinzine (FR), Auschwitz-Komitee in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V. (DE), Europäisches BürgerInnen Forum Österreich (AT), Forum Civique Européen (FR)

The Bejarano & Microphone Mafia sing and rap for tolerance and peace. Esther Bejarano is a 92-year-old Auschwitz survivor that bravely and loudly sings against the extreme right. We invited the group to Provence (F), where we will link our local history of internment camps to today’s migration issues. We will discuss our involvment with migrants in the region with Austrain activists that support migrants in their country. This event is thought for schools and for a wide public.

Bildquelle: Auschwitz-Komitee in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e.V.

LIGUE DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT 54 (FR), Landesjugendwerk der AWO (DE), Service Volontaire International (BE)

“Living together beyond frontiers” : our differences, our resemblances, our strengths, our weaknesses, all our opportunities ... Three meetings with French, German and Belgian young people from 18 to 25 years old. One aim: Get to know better their neighbors’ culture, communicate with them, imagine new actions and move forward to build projects all together. All three meetings will include sport and cultural activities and each meeting will focus on various aspects of “diversity and inclusion”.

Bildquelle: Benoit Debuisser

Verband der Gemeinschaften der Künstlerinnen und Kunstförderer eV.– Regionalgruppe Karlsruhe (DE), FemmesPaminaFrauen e.V. (FR), Nikolaus - Lenau - Lyzeum (RO)

30 young people from Romania, France and Germany will spend a week together in France, in order to experience history from the perspective of East and West European contemporary witnesses. Subsequent to these experiences, they will discuss their expectations and ideas for the future of Europe.

Bildquelle: Original (mit Zustimmung der abgebildeten Person), Fotolia

Champions ohne Grenzen e.V. (DE), Association Les Dégommeuses (FR), Girl Power Organisation (DK)

In the summer of 2017, the 1st KickOutRacismCup Women will be held in Berlin, with ca. 80 women (with or without refugee backgrounds or disabilities) who participate in a football tournament and workshop programm. This project is an opportunity to bring together women from a more socially inclusive and sporting perspective, opportunities that are still too rare - but with strong demand. Beyond geographical and social borders we want to create a link, a network of mutual assistance and sharing.

Bildquelle: Alexa Vachon at DISCOVER FOOTBALL

Comité Régional Handisport Bourgogne Franche-Comté (FR), Behinderten- und rehabilitations sport-verband (DE), Kuratorium Oswiaty w Opolu (PL)

This meeting aims to strengthen the links that already unite Burgundy and Rhineland-Palatinate. Poland is also part of the project. This meeting, for young people aged 13 to 20 in a disability situation is based on sports exchanges, the discovery of teaching methods of teaching young people with disabilities in ordinary environments or in the centers, as well as the tourist discovery of the region and local crafts.

Bildquelle: gerard.milan@orange.fr

Cefir (FR), Gustav-Stresemann-Institut e.V. (DE), Instytut Regionalny w Katowicach (PL)

Sustainability is one of the priorities in Europe and becomes more and more important in technology. It is therefore essential to reflect on this issue on a European level. The purpose of our project is to make apprentices in Electrical Engineering from Germany, France and Poland think about the issues of sustainability and to include these issues in their vocational training. It allows them to exchange about their practice and experiences.

Bildquelle: Nicolas Lalau / Cefir

Werdenfels-Gymnasium (DE), Lycée Ozanam (FR), Bay House School (GB), Residenztheater München, "Junges Resi" (DE)

This project is an exciting collaboration between three schools in France, England and Germany – former enemies during the Great War. 39 pupils are working with professionals from the Residenztheater in Munich to develop a production in three languages based around the First World War, peace, tolerance and mutual respect. The pupils will perform to European audiences from April to June 2018 - in Munich, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Lille, Amiens and Gosport.

Bildquelle: Projektteam

Comité de Jumelage du Lion d'Angers (FR), Partnerschaftsverein Bad Buchau-Le Lion d'Angers (DE), Wiveliscombe & District Twinning Association (GB), Collège du Val d'Oudon (FR)

July 2018: With the relay “1000 Miles” a true human, cultural and athletic challenge will take place in our town. French, German and English volunteers will be ready to run the 1000 km which separate Le Lion d’Angers and Bad Buchau in Germany. On that occasion, French pupils from primary and secondary schools in Le Lion d’Angers will send a “piece of France” in a treasure chest as a present to Germany, then to England, before the chest will return to France.

Bildquelle: Projektteam

Musik für Gera e.V. (DE), l´Association DAC (FR), Deutsch-Bulgarische Gesellschaft e. V. (DE)

The intercultural music that will be performed during the Fête de la Musique 2016 in Gera is to be enriched by the participation of varied European musicians.We would like to provide two further groups with the opportunity to participate: a French jazz band and a Bulgarian musical group of Roma children.The Fête aims to encourage international understanding across Europe and the world through music. Our event should therefore be promoted along with the German-Bulgarian Association's project,

Bildquelle: Musik für Gera e.V.

les petits frères des Pauvres (FR), Freunde Alter Menschen (DE), Mali Bracia Ubogich (PL)

Will we get old alone? In Europe, between 5 and 20% of people over the age of 60 feel alone, so 1.5 million people in France, 2.5 in England ... Loneliness and isolation are increasing among people over 75 years of age. To face this challenge, a committed civil society is needed to recreate relationships with the oldest. Our project is to organize a large conference on this theme, to give to more citizens the opportunity to engage themselves in the fight against isolation of the elderly.

Bildquelle: Photographer: Birte Zellentin

KinderAugenKrebsStiftung, Germany (DE), Retinostop, France (FR), Associazione Italiana per la Lotta al Retinoblastoma, Italy (IT), Österreichische Kinderkrebshilfe, Austria ()

Retinoblastoma–when children suffer from this disease they are usually no older than 1 year.Many loose one eye because diagnosis comes too late. We would like to profit from our European partners, we want to exchange experiences, develop ideas in our first EU workshop (Germany, France, Itlay, Netherlands, England, Austria): for early detection, gentle treatment, research, a good survivor aftercare plan.

Bildquelle: KinderAugenKrebsStiftung

MAIRIE DE FONTAINE (FR), VILLE DE SCHMALKALDEN (DE), VILLE D'ALPIGNANO (IT)

2 European cities (Schmalkalden in Germany and Alpignano in Italy) each twinned with a French town (Fontaine), 1 project around the music divided into 3 activities in each of the cities. The aim is to experience interculturality through music, to create links and exchanges between young musicians, by discovering the specific learning characteristics of each country in total immersion.

Bildquelle: Mairie de Fontaine

European Family Justice Center Alliance (NL), BIG Koordinierung (DE), La Maison des Femmes (FR), Family Justice Center Antwerpen - CAW (BE)

A Family Justice Center is a multiagency and multidisciplinary center that provides services to victims of domestic violence, child abuse and sexual violence and their families from one location. The FJC in St. Denis ‘ LaMaison des Femmes’ is organising together with the EFJCA and the partners from Germany and Belgium in France a conference (11-2018) and exchange visits (2019) on cooperation and exchanging knowledge & experiences of the multidisciplinary approach for victims of domestic violence.

Bildquelle: EFJCA

Association La Rêv’othèque (FR), Deutsches Hirtenmuseum Hersbruck (DE), Lossiemouth-Hersbruck twin town association (GB), EBZ Hesselberg (DE)

It all started as a crazy idea, now there are three mobile shepherd’s huts on the roads of Europe allowing spontaneous storytelling and collective daydreaming around the wood fire stove. We invite participants of this tour to encounter others in a travelling tiny house. Some will join us in Germany at the Hesselberg and in Hersbruck, others will experience hospitality in Burgundy and in Lossiemouth, Scotland. The destination: time with yourself, and in very good company of a simple, cosy shelter

Bildquelle: © Tanya Kuznetsova