TALLINN EUROPEAN SCHOOL (EE), LYCEE LOUIS COUFFIGNAL (FR), EINSTEIN GYMNASIUM (DE), EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF HELSINKI (FI)

We are European teenagers living at a border. Our schools are in France, Germany, Estonia and Finland. We are making a project on solidarity to be aware of what is happening to young migrants. We want to open our eyes and act. We want to meet migrants and helpers and to share ideas about borders and welcoming, from Strasbourg to Helsinki. May 9th 2016 is Europe Day : we are going to organize a giant picnic cross Europe to share our table with ALL young people living here. Please join us!

Bildquelle: Projektteam

Sesam e.V. - Verein zur Realisierung von Ideen junger Menschen in Alltag und Zukunft (DE), Ville de Mulhouse (FR), Stowarzyszenie Forum Kultur (PL), Youth Agency "Interactive" (RU)

Youngsters from France, Poland, Russia and Germany will experience in summer 2017 in Kassel background and conditions of migration and escape. They will also think about the (supposed) effects of migration to their own everyday life. Their insights and ideas they will transfer into own artworks. They will visit the exhibition Documenta 14, ask for the potential and effectiveness of art concerning the topic and experience how they themselves can use art to express themselves.

Bildquelle: Karl-Heinz Stark

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.

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Other Music Academy e.V. (DE), Maison de la culture yiddish - Bibliothèque Medem (FR), Centrum Dialogu im. Marka Edelmana (PL)

The Triangle Orchestra is a unique, life-changing musical adventure spanning three historic European cultural centers – Paris, Łódź and Weimar – linked by an unexpected common thread: Yiddish music. The project invites 32 young Polish, German and French musicians to an encounter with the single surviving Yiddish opera, “Dovid un Bas-Sheve.” A series of immersive workshops and rehearsals in each city will culminate in the world premiere performance of the orchestral arrangement of the opera.

Bildquelle: Shendl Copitman

Europäisches Forum für angewandte Kriminalpolitik. e.V. (DE), Association Nationale des Visiteurs de Prison (FR), Association de Visiteurs Francophones de Prison de Belgique (BE), BONJO (NL)

Based on our experience, we believe that we prison visitors need to come out into the open, so that our commitment as citizens in the world of prisons may find it rightful place with European Institutions. So we need your help once again: we intend to bring together associations from Belgium, Germany, France, Netherlands, in an International NGO. We will then apply to the Council of Europe to join the INGO Conference. Your vote will be precious to us. Thank you!

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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.

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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.

interkular gGmbH (DE), Federacion Andalucia Acoge (ES), Utopia 56 (FR)

Integration also means to deal with questions of reintegration. Because of the new challenges refugees face in Europe, we want counsel people on the topic of reintegration by giving perspectives and support them in building up network structures in their country of origin. We are different refugee organizations from Germany, France and Spain. We will meet at our headquarters for exchanging experiences and ideas on the topic and to support each other in our work.

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Volontariat International au Service des Autres VISA-AD (FR), Evangelische Freiwilligendienste gGmbH (DE), Önkéntes Diakóniai Év Programiroda (HU)

The idea is to organize a meeting between young people completing volunteer work from different countries / cultures and lived an almost similar experience (the French Service Civique or German IJFD or European EVS ). The idea is to bring these young people with this shared experience (a year of volunteering). These young people have not had the opportunity to meet between-them without our partner organizations would force this youth exchange.

Bildquelle: Volontariat International au Service des Autres VISA-AD

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.

Junge Europäer - Junge Europäische Föderalisten Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V. (DE), Jeunes Européens Lille Métropole (FR), Jonge Europese Federalisten Nederland (NL), JEF Belgium (BE)

We are alarmed at the growing scepticism towards politics among people and see the increasing use of digital technologies in our generation’s lives as an excellent opportunity to remedy this disengagement. Our project will take place in five countries and aims to explore the link between "Digital Democracy and Youth Empowerment". As our main event and in the frame of a Structured Dialogue we will therefore bring together around 50 youngsters in Bochum (Germany) at the end of April for a seminar.

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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

EuropaRad Roßdorf (DE), Association Sportive Billysienne Cyclotourisme (FR), EuropaRad Vösendorf (AT)

What about our Europe in times of Brexit, Euro-skepticism, national political developments and others thems ? With discussions, public presentations and a great joint bike tour from May 22-26, 2019, we want to show citizens from France, Austria, Italy and Germany to the new federal states and convince them of the importance of Europe and its values, as they are in the Elysée Treaty are anchored for us all - Europe experienced together.

Bildquelle: Bernd Schäfer, EuropaRad Roßdorf

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

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

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