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Co-Lab Connects Erfurt: Stakeholders Unite for Inclusive Innovation

On July 9, 2025, Co-Lab Connects brought together a dynamic mix of 43 participants from 15 organizations at Café Nerly in Erfurt for an afternoon of collaboration and learning. Co-organized between Plattform e.V. and Melton Foundation with the support from CGE Erfurt e.V., the event’s aim was to foster social entrepreneurship and inclusive innovation through open stakeholder dialogue. […]

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PENDYW Training Course: Advancing Equality and Inclusion in European Youth Work

About the Project From the 1st until the 3rd of July, we hosted a training course in Erfurt for the PENDYW project – Promoting Equality and Non-Discrimination in Youth Work. PENDYW brings together six partners from Belgium, France, North Macedonia, Portugal, and Germany with the shared aim of improving the quality, inclusiveness, and impact of youth

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Youth work in action: A powerful day of learning and exchange at CGE // EU4YOUTH2ACT

On June 27, 2025, CGE proudly hosted a national pilot workshop in Erfurt as part of the EU4YOUTH2ACT project — and what a day it was! Bringing together passionate youth workers and educators from across Germany, the event created a vibrant space for learning, reflection, and connection. Held at our cozy and collaborative headquarters, the

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Exploring Inclusive & Innovative Hubs of Split-Dalmatia County: 3rd TNISIHUB Meeting, and Transnational Exchange in Split, Croatia // TASK4ISI

We are pleased to report on the successful conclusion of the Steering Committee Meeting, Press Conference, 3rd TNISIHUB Meeting, and Transnational Exchange held on June 5th and 6th, 2025, in Split, Croatia, as a key component of the TASK4ISI project. This significant gathering, hosted by Public Institution RERA S.D. for Coordination and Development of Split-Dalmatia

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Rooted in Creativity: ART’kademie Inspiring Start

Two Saturdays ago, May 31st, a vibrant community of creatives, nature lovers, and curious minds came together for the kick-off of ART’kademie –a participatory arts initiative within the framework of the New Inherit project, coordinated by Culture Goes Europe (CGE) and our cultural ambassadors, and hosted at the Other Music Academy (OMA) in Weimar. This

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Building peace together: “The Missing Peace” projects results from the Berlin Conference

Our recent conference “Shared Space, Shared Future” in Berlin was an extraordinary opportunity to bring together brilliant minds from across Europe to discuss crucial topics such as missing peace, conflict resolution, and human rights. During the event, we were delighted to present the diverse activities of our “The Missing Peace” project through an engaging “poster

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Forgotten place, August-Frölich-Platz: Where Citizens Reclaim the Right to the City

Once a traffic-choked corner in Weimar, August-Frölich-Platz is slowly becoming something else—a living laboratory for participatory urbanism, where local residents, children, artists, and activists are challenging traditional models of city planning from the ground up. Rooted in principles from critical theory, the Citizen Initiative for August-Frölich-Platz unfolding here pushes back against the idea that urban

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Third Session of Our Book Club: Youth, Culture, and Digital Rights // EU4YOUTH2ACT

Last Thursday, May 22nd, we held the third session of our Book Club — and this time, we took on one of the most urgent and far-reaching topics of our digital age: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. The event was hosted in person at Oma Lilo in Erfurt as part of Culture Goes Europe’s

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Exploring Peacebuilding in Practice: Study Visits to ZIF, CRISP, and CISR

The day after our international conference Shared Space, Shared Future: A Multi-Level Approach to Youth-Led Reconciliation and Social Cohesion, our visit to Berlin offered a multi-layered exploration of contemporary peacebuilding practices through engagements with three institutions operating at the intersection of policy, education, and social research: the Center for International Peace Operations (ZIF), CRISP –

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