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iJuLa – intersectional YouthLabs in Cologne

Creating new spaces through art: For a diverse and inclusive Cologne for all of us. From 2020 to 2024 the iJuLa-project, the first PopUp-Creative space opened in Herthastraße in Cologne Zollstock in July 2021

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#RRXP – The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience

Artists from 6 to 10 countries. Two weeks of developing ideas, music, scenes together. A joint transdisciplinary production. Get involved!

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RRCGN Baltrum projects

Each year in November, we travel to the North Sea island of Baltrum with young artists from several countries. Between dunes, storms and sandy beaches, exciting artistic projects are created in small groups.

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EOTO24: International exchange programme for coaches and project coordinators

From 24 to 30 June 2024, the first international “Each One Teach One (EOTO)” seminar took place in Larissa, Greece, bringing together a total of 22 participants (project coordinators, coaches, peer coaches) from 7 sending organisations from the international RRIA network to exchange ideas on artistic-educational methods and youth work.

Heterotopia 2025

From June 9 to 19, 2025, the international youth exchange “HETEROTOPIA” took place in Larissa, Greece. Six young artists each from Germany, Greece, Cyprus, and Lithuania came together to explore and interpret the concept of heterotopia through art.

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The ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy 2.0

In the Peer Coach Academy 2.0 project, as part of the international ROOTS & ROUTES network, we are developing a format in which young artists are given the maximum level of expertise for the further training of their peers in our projects and those of our international partner organizations. To this end, participants go through self-selected individual modules in order to expand their collective growth and their European and international self-image in a future-oriented way.

Cover zum Tanzprojekt „The Migrated Body“

The Migrated Body

The Migrated Body, a dance project that immerses participants in their own cultures for a week. During the summer holidays of 2025, young people up to the age of 18 were able to take part in a dance project with Ludmilla Schemak and Ekaterina Thor free of charge.

Peer Classes

Current workshops and classes in the ROOTS & ROUTES Space.

LevelUp! 2025

The LevelUp! academy is an intensive training program for young creatives that will take place from 22 to 27 April 2025 at the Landesmusikakademie NRW in Heek.

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Kölnchella

In the queer-intersectional youth festival series “Kölnchella”, which emerged from iJuLa, various public events took place from 2022 to 2024, the largest of which was the Kölnchella Summer Festival.

Baltrum 2024

Our annual international Baltrum project, which brought together artistically active young people from all over Europe and professional artistic coaches for joint reflection and the development of a wide variety of interdisciplinary results, which were finally presented at a public show in Cologne.

The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience 2025

The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience, RRXP for short, is an international art project in which creative people from various European countries come together in the summer to develop a complete stage play within two weeks.

The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience 2024

The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience, RRXP for short, is an international art project in which creative people from various European countries come together in the summer to develop a complete stage play within two weeks.