There will be two rounds for microprojects in 2024.
The 13th application round will start on January 2 and run until February 18, 2024. Project ideas can be submitted via an online application platform.
In exceptional cases, projects can also be submitted by post or e-mail after consultation.
The projects will be assessed by an eight-member jury and evaluated according to defined criteria. The decision will be announced in March. The microprojects must then be implemented by the end of 2024 at the latest.
Do you still have questions about the microprojects? Write us an e-mail: mikroprojekte@chemnitz2025.de.
Microprojects are intended to provide impulses for, at best, new cultural formats or encounters in the city and the cultural region. As part of the cooperation funding, non-commercial cultural project ideas with a broad cultural definition – for example for the visual arts, performing arts, literature, music, film, photography, architecture, peace and remembrance culture, media and new media, related forms and interdisciplinary projects as well as activities in sport, civil society and broad culture – can be financed. The broad urban or regional society is called upon to create forms of communication and social interaction.
Activities that focus on diversity, sustainability, inclusion and/or multi-generational cooperation/work are also specifically desired.
In general, projects that meet the imposed project criteria (5Cs) based on the strategic objectives and project indicators from Bidbook II are assessed as microprojects for Chemnitz 2025. Accordingly, the projects should:
- Promote cooperation/work at European level (C Europe)
- create experiences of self-efficacy and attract new audiences through the maker concept (C the maker in yourself)
- Discover the potential of creative collaboration with unexpected partners in order to make better progress together (C the maker in others)
- Make new space accessible for creative ideas, projects and collaboration (C the space for makers)
- Exploring the unknown, overlooked and hidden and putting them in the spotlight (C the Unseen).
The project criteria are explained in more detail in the Chemnitz 2025 handbook. The visibility of the project in Chemnitz and/or the cultural region (districts of Zwickau, Central Saxony, Erzgebirgskreis) must be guaranteed.
Who can take part and how much funding is available?
Associations, initiatives or committed individuals can submit their specific projects.
The projects can be supported with a sum of up to €2,500. Projects with a European dimension can receive up to €3,000 (e.g. invitations from artists from Europe or international partners, which means additional expenses due to fees or travel and accommodation costs). Self-financing is not required. It is recommended that the planning, implementation and financing of the project proposal is already prepared in great detail at the time of submission so that it can be implemented promptly (if necessary, requests for any permits or rooms have already been clarified).
A jury will select the most convincing project ideas, which will then be supported financially and in terms of communicating the implementation of the project
European dimension; Dialogue and cooperation; Using diversity, maximizing creative potential; New skills and a sense of community: European Makers of Democracy; Creative spaces; Hybrid working; For everyone – “silent middle”; Self-efficacy
The 14th microproject call for applications is planned for mid-2024 and there will also be an opportunity to submit project ideas for microprojects in 2025.
What is supported?
Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH does not provide institutional cooperation funding; as a matter of principle, it does not support acquisitions, construction measures and/or purely investment projects. “Institutional cooperation financing” refers to the financing of existing or newly established institutions (e.g. museums, theaters, associations, foundations) in their entire activity (e.g. infrastructure, ongoing business) that is not related to individual projects.
An independent jury made up of various stakeholders from the city and the cultural region then selects the projects that can be implemented directly.
- Nadine Rothe (Chair of the jury, freelance artist for communication design and illustration, member of Huhlern e.V. and Kulturbündnis Hand in Hand e.V., former member of the Chemnitz2025 program council)
- Tobias Möller (Deputy Chairman of the jury, employee of the Netzwerk für Kultur- und Jugendarbeit e.V., member of the Cultural Advisory Board of the City of Chemnitz, former member of the Chemnitz2025 Program Council)
- Simone Becht (responsible for “Art in Public Space, Visual Arts” of the City of Chemnitz, former head of the Capital of Culture Office)
- Jörg Illing (Mitglied des Vereins Deutsch-Polnische Gesellschaft Chemnitz, ehemaliges Mitglied des Programmrats Chemnitz2025)
- Wolfgang Dorn (Managing Director of “Die Theatermacher UG”, Managing Director of FZLO Freizeitstätten GmbH Limbach-Oberfrohna)
- Anton Weißflog (Youth Manager, Flexible Youth Management, Kreis Jugendring Erzgebirge e.V., Annaberg-Buchholz)
- Kerstin Pfeil (Town hall manager of the Oelsnitz/Erzgeb. town hall, retired cultural manager, Hainichen)
- Fatima Maged (Editorial assistant at Radio T, Chemnitz)
The Programme of Mikroprojekte is excellent!
The idea and our realization of the microprojects was certified by stadtimpulse, the nationwide project pool for inner city, retail and urban life. This makes us a best practice 2022 and shows how the active involvement of citizens in urban design can succeed and provide new impetus to sustainably enrich Chemnitz and the cultural region. Click here for more information.
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