european capital of culture 2025: celebrate generations!

Chemnitz and 38 partner municipalities and communities in the Central Saxony,Erzgebirge and Zwickau region will be the European Capital of Culture 2025.Kulturhauptstadt Europas Chemnitz 2025 GmbH (Kulturhauptstadt GmbH) is the company entrusted with the implementation of the project ideas outlined in bid book II. This company is planning and managing all the activities included in the programme for the Capital of Culture year.

Kulturhauptstadt Europas Chemnitz 2025 GmbH is working under the motto “C the Unseen” to place a key focus on activities in the areas of socioculture, art, tinkerer and maker culture, food and eating culture, the environment, sustainability, children’s, youth and senior citizens’ activities as well as other areas of society and culture. To this end, it is bringing together regional and national as well as international partners.

Under “C the Unseen”, the motto of Chemnitz2025, the Generation team is looking for projects that discover opportunities for everyone in the peculiarities of generations and with which children and young people in particular acquire the space, knowledge and skills to create their own future perspectives.

Here, we see Chemnitz as a laboratory for issues facing all of Europe because, in the context of Chemnitz as the European Capital of Culture 2025, the demographically oldest city in Europe has the opportunity to find regional approaches to these issues, such as demographic change, loneliness and shortage of skilled workers.

Whether it’s innovative tech solutions or ways of meeting – we are also looking for projects that involve older people and thus create a platform that shows appreciation for their activities, opinions and the issues they face.

We encourage European, national and local partners to include projects for and, most importantly, with the target groups of the Generation team in the Capital of Culture programme.