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.
With Rollen Gestalten, ROOTS & ROUTES Cologne e.V., the Meschenich Children’s and Youth Center, and Junge Stadt Köln are creating a safe, artistic space for children, teenagers, and young adults.
A one-year community project with meetings, excursions, and workshops for joint reappraisal and reconciliation of Russian-German history.
Are you between 18 and 26 years old and interested in sharing your passion for music, dance, film, theater, graffiti, painting, or other creative fields? Do you want to teach artistic skills, grow with others, and experience things that no tutorial can prepare you for? Here you can find your way into coaching!
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.
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.
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.
Current offers, workshops, and classes at ROOTS & ROUTES Space, a wide variety of creative hands-on activities offered by young RRCGN peer coaches.
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.
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.