EACH ONE TEACH ONE Seminar 2025 (EOTO25)

The second EOTO seminar for professionals from the international ROOTS & ROUTES network was held in Lithuania!

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Memorial of a Goldfish – RRXP25

During an intensive residency, 27 young artists from Cologne, Florence, Istanbul, Ljubljana, Marseille, and Lille collaborated to develop a powerful, multidisciplinary stage play. Under the artistic direction of Sophie Laffont (Marseille), they …

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Heterotopia 2025

International youth exchange held 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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CABY25: Connecting Art-Based Youthwork

International network meeting that brought together cultural education organisations from 12 countries in Hungary.

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Octopus - Baltrum24

For the “Octopus” project, the association ROOTS & ROUTES Cologne traveled to the North Sea island of Baltrum with almost 40 young artists from 6 different countries and a team of professional artistic coaches. Between saltwater and sand dunes, they …

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The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience 2024

The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience 2024 (RRXP24) is an international youth exchange project bringing together 40 young artists from 8 countries explore how to deal with uncertainty and overcome challenges.

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EOTO24: international exchange programme for coaches and project coordinators

This event provided a space for representatives of each organisation to exchange insights, explore each other’s approaches, and collaboratively shape ideas for future projects. A key objective was to strengthen the Roots & Routes International …

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INDaRAY24: International Network Development and Regeneration in Artistic Youthwork

Project coordinators and staff from various organisations of the network gathered in Salzburg to exchange ideas on network development, quality criteria for international artistic youth work and strategic planning.

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(IN)SOMNIA – What happens when we close our eyes?

(IN)SOMNIA – What happens when we close our eyes? (INSOMNIA23) is an international youth exchange project bringing together 40 young artists from France, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Turkey and Germany on the North Sea island of Baltrum.

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Dive(rsity) Into The City 2023

Dive'23 is an international exchange focused on artistic approaches to diversity. During the exchange, participants created various forms of media art, including short movies, documentaries, music videos, audio recordings, and photos.

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The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience 2023

The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience 2023 (RRXP23) is an international youth exchange project bringing together 40 young artists from 7 countries came together for 2 weeks to develop a stage show.

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We're all part of the CAKE

CAKE22 project focuses on the theme of Self-Care and Community Care and involved 40 young artists from 6 different countries.Thematic short films, music clips and experimental media works were created in internationally mixed creation groups.

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Creation Potluck

“Potluck” is actually the name for meetings where all participants contribute something edible that is then shared with everyone. The important thing is that there is usually no agreement about who brings what. What emerges are often diverse …

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Sci-Fi: Self Care Interaction For community Intelligence

The project Sci-Fi has 30 people from 6 participating countries come together in Larissa (Greece) to work on an international artistic project and empower each other, reflect their positions in global structures and experiment on an artistic level.

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The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience 2022

The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience has an international group of young artists develop an interdisciplinary stage show within two weeks. Working together, uniting their artistic fields and supported and coached by professional Artists.

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Re-designing Wor(l)ds

Re-designing Wor(l)ds (RDW22) is an international youth exchange project bringing together 31 young people from urban and rural areas of Austria, Germany, Greece, Hungary and Italy, to jointly reflect on socio-political issues that concern them …

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Future Lab Young Europe - Baltrum 2021

Because of Corona a whole year later than planned, the second Future Lab Young Europe took place in November 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 …

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Future Lab Young Europe - Baltrum 2019

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.

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The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience 2019

For a two-week period, 40 young artists from different countries further developed the working methods that were developed during the previous project in 2017. Coached by professional artists, an interdisciplinary stage performance was created.

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Art4Act Open Air Cinema at Luisenviertel Cologne

A4A Multiplier Event Cologne

On September 20th, the videos created in the international project “Art4Act – Arts in Action for an Inclusive Society” where presented to the public.

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Art4Act Multiplier Event in Greece – On September 14th 2018

Art4Act Multiplier Event took place on September 14th 2018, as part of the Music Theatre Regional Companies Meeting (13-16/9/2018) in the Municipal Conservatoire of Larissa and the Municipal Ballet School.

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ART4ACT Multiplier Event Italy

Public presentation of the project’s outputs in Pontassieve, Florence

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Ongea Multiplier Event The Netherlands

During the Dutch Ongea Multiplier Event we explained what is Ongea (used for), shared the Tool, gave insight in the app and gave more general tips & tricks about international projectmanagement and mobilities.

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OnGea Multiplier Event in Larissa/Greece – More than 60 representatives from the Youth and Education Sector and Local Authorities participated in OnGea event, organised by SMouTh

On August 30th, OnGea Multiplier event took place in Larissa. The event aimed to present the OnGea online platform (Online Gear enhancing Youth Work), created to facilitate youth’s mobility in Europe.

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OnGea Multiplier Event in Kaunas

At the end of August, Kaunas Cultural Centre of Various Nations presented the innovative OnGea system — 3 different digital tools (Activity Module, Website Channels and Mobile App), which were created by the Roots & Routes International network — 10 …

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OnGea multiplier event in Budapest

Subjective Values Foundation presents OnGea to Hungarian organizations managing exchanges.

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OnGea Marseille Multiplier Event

The OnGea tools generate interest among the associations promoting mobility

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RiO's president Cilia Willem shows how OnGea works

OnGea Multiplier Event @barcelona

OnGea: what can it do for your organisation? The OnGea app was introduced to a variety of stakeholders in Barcelona

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Art4Act multiplier event at the Bánkitó Festival

Subjective Values Foundation included a drama in education and a slam poetry writing workshop as part of the Art4Act multiplier event in Hungary.

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OnGea Multiplier Event Italy

Presentation of the OnGea toolkit in Florence.

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A4A Capacity Building Workshop Cologne

At the international Art4Act seminar in Cologne, artists, coaches and project managers from six countries met to exchange and test artistic practices for an inclusive society.

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The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience 2017

Perspectives from young artists from 10 countries came together to discuss their ideas and wishes and to make art out of them. They were accompanied by an artistic core team around the renowned break dancer and choreographer Youngung Sebastian …

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Young Arts for Queer Rights and Visibility

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 …

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Picture of the seminar taking place at the Kaunas Cultural Centre of Various Nations

2nd International OnGea! Seminar – Kaunas Cultural Centre of Various Nations

The OnGea! consortium comes together in Kaunas (LT) for the 2nd International OnGea! Seminar discussing the main features of the digital tool.

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CCC peer coaches describing training activities

A4A - Second project meeting in Florence

Representatives of the eight Art4Act partners gathered again together in Florence for the second project meeting.

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The ROOTS & ROUTES Experience 2016

Young artists from the most different corners of Europe came together to create art from their ideas and wishes. Music, dance, media, drama and poetry were combined in a transdisciplinary way and in international exchange, a joint performance was …

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Il Mestiere dell'Arte 2 – Second Educational Path and Multiplier Event

From May 21 to 25, 2016, 11 of the 16 young artists who attended the first educational path IL MESTIERE DELL'ARTE in September 2015 at Il Vivaio del Malcantone, participated to an intensive five-days-session at Le Murate.

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R2E Multiplier Event Cologne May 2016

36 people met at Bühne der Kulturen Köln to exchange about the “Routes to Employment” project, learn about the results and meet the participants of the 2016 residency.

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R2E – Second National Training Activity in Brussels

From the 13th of April to the 12th of May 2016, SMartBe organised a second national pilot training activity to test and validate the R2E revised transnational unified curriculum: 7 modules, a total duration of 6,5 full-days equivalents, over a …

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Routes to Employment Residency Cologne 2016 – In the Frame of The ROOTS & ROUTES Peer Coach Academy 2016

Around Easter 2016, ROOTS & ROUTES Cologne e. V. organised a 12-day seminar for young artists who want to capitalise on their artistic skills by teaching/coaching others. The seminar included artistic, educational and entrepreneurial aspects.

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R2E Multiplier Event Cologne February 2016

On February 2nd, 2016, the first German Multiplier Event in the “Routes to Employment” (R2E) project was held at Bühne der Kulturen, Köln.

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R2E Capacity Building Workshop Florence

The transnational seminar held in December 2015 focused on Cross-disciplinary art, art in the public sphere, awareness of the artist’s role and his_her responsibility in today’s society.

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R2E – 3 Seminars with Stakeholders in Brussels

SMartBe organised a total of three multiplier events in the frame of the project “Routes to Employment”. They were held between November 2015 and June 2016 in Brussels.

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(De-)construct Gender - Baltrum 2015

Young artists from 9 countries came together on the North Sea island of Baltrum to develop short films, songs, music videos and small live performances on the theme of gender.

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R2E - First National Training Activity in Brussels

From the 2nd to the 23rd of October 2015, SMartBe organised a national pilot training activity called “Project Management for Artistic Activities” to test the R2E draft curriculum, consisting of 10 modules, a total duration of 8,5 full-days …

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Il Mestiere dell'Arte – Educational Path

In the frame of the European project “Routes to Employment”, 16 young artists aspiring to become professional cultural entrepreneurs were trained in Florence.

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Routes to Employment Residency Cologne 2015

In August 2015, a residency for young artists aiming to improve their professional skills and to develop performances was held in Cologne in the framework of the R2E project.

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R2E Training Event in Brussels in June 2015

During the first year of the R2E project, SMartBe organised a training activity for two staff members of each partner organisations. The specific focus was on transnational mobility, one of the big challenges for cultural workers in Europe.

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Il Mestiere dell'Arte – The Relation between Arts Education, Work, Research, Creative Process: the Legitimacy of the Professional Role of the Artist

Il Mestiere dell’Arte is the first “multiplier event” organized in Florence by Centro di Creazione e Cultura within the project Routes to Employment (R2E) in collaboration with local stakeholders such as Le Murate. Progetti Arte Contemporanea, Il …

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Music and Media for an Open Europe - Baltrum 2014

48 people from 8 countries travelled to the North Sea island of Baltrum: In the cold November wind, films, songs and performances for an open Europe were created.

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