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.
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.
Our annual international meeting on the North Sea island of Baltrum, which brings 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 we then present at a final presentation in Cologne.
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.
This year, our international encounter project on the North Sea island of Baltrum focused on the topic of sleep – what happens the moment we close our eyes? What do we see? What do we not see? What do we dream about? What do we let happen and at what cost? Who is actually in control?
How can we manage to engage in an increasingly stressful world without falling into burnout? Self-Care and Community Care is the thematic field on which 40 young artists from 6 countries have been working together since November 2.
Because of Corona a whole year later than planned, the second Future Lab Young Europe started on November 1, 2021. 35 young artists from 6 countries lived and worked together for two weeks on the North Sea island of Baltrum. Here, a laboratory space was created for exchange, experimentation and innovation around the theme of “future”.
38 young adults from 6 countries met for 2 weeks on Baltrum and developed visions of the future in small, internationally mixed working groups, projecting the risks and opportunities of current developments into the future.
The project provided a framework that encouraged young artists with different sexual orientations and gender self-definitions to reach out to other young people with strong messages for queer equality, inclusiveness and non-discrimination. Young people were supported in analyzing discriminatory actions and language, and in countering them with artistic means, advocating for queer rights, visibility and recognition.
In this two-year transnational project, 8 partner organisations from all over Europe and Tunisia worked for social cohesion and against discrimination, racism and Islamophobia.