CABY25: ROOTS & ROUTES International Network meeting in Budapest.
From February 24th to 26th, 2025, 17 organizations from Europe and Africa gathered in Budapest, Hungary, for the CABY25: Connecting Art-Based Youthwork Seminar.
A format for the sustainable development of young artists into coaches at an international level. Participants are developed into self-confident peer coaches, youth workers, and changemakers.
Artists from 6 to 10 countries. Two weeks of jointly developing ideas, pieces of music, scenes. A joint transdisciplinary production. Join in!
Every year in November, we travel with young artists from several countries to the North Sea island of Baltrum. Between dunes, storms, and sandy beaches, exciting artistic projects are created in small groups.
From February 24th to 26th, 2025, 17 organizations from Europe and Africa gathered in Budapest, Hungary, for the CABY25: Connecting Art-Based Youthwork Seminar.
In August 2025, the SYNERGEIO Culture Space in Larissa became a meeting place for young artists from all over Europe who gathered for the ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy 2.0, organized by our Greek partner organization SMouTh.
As part of the Erasmus+ project RRPCA 2.0, the first “Level Up” seminar will take place in Salzburg from February 9 to 14, 2026. This format serves as in-depth training for participants who have already gained initial experience in peer coach training and now want to professionalize their technical expertise and coaching methods.
The ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy took place in Salzburg for the first time in 2025 as part of RRPCA2.0. Participants gained insights into various disciplines such as dance, rap & beat, and singing. The program also included workshops on event management, funding opportunities, pedagogy, and didactics.
The ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy Lithuania was a project in Kaunas, Lithuania, that brought together young artists aged 18 to 35 from the fields of dance, acting, and media art for a one-week training and mentoring program.
The ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy took place in Salzburg for the first time in 2025 as part of RRPCA2.0. Participants gained insights into various disciplines such as dance, rap & beat, and singing. The program also included workshops on event management, funding opportunities, pedagogy, and didactics.
In 2026, as we do every year, we will be organizing an international gathering on the North Sea island of Baltrum, bringing together young people active in the arts from across Europe and professional artistic coaches to reflect together and develop a wide variety of interdisciplinary outcomes. The results will then be presented at a final presentation in Cologne.
A project organized by our international partners at the Centro di Creazione e Cultura (CCC) in Florence, based in the Italian municipality of Massarosa.
The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience, or RRXP for short, is an international artistic encounter format in which creative people from different European countries come together to develop a complete stage play within two weeks.
Double the action! This year, for the very first time, our annual international encounter on the North Sea island of Baltrum will take place twice!
For this special edition, eligibility is restricted to those who have already participated in one of our regular encounters at least once before.