Participation and citizen involvement are at the heart of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. In addition to numerous recurring and continuous participation opportunities, there are always opportunities to get involved in individual projects, campaigns and tenders.
Micro-projects are intended to provide impetus for new cultural formats or encounters in the city and the Capital of Culture region. The broad urban and regional society is called upon to create forms of communication and social interaction.
Funding is available for non-commercial creative and cultural project ideas: e.g. 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 popular culture. Activities that focus on diversity, sustainability, inclusion and/or multi-generational cooperation are also expressly desired.
A final round of projects is planned for the spring of the Capital of Culture year 2025.
The funding programme supports projects in the 30 intervention areas, the urban development project of the European Capital of Culture, as well as initiatives throughout the city and in the digital space. The programme is based on three pillars, which are financed by the City of Chemnitz, Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH and Sparkasse Chemnitz. The application period begins on 1 May 2024 and ends on 31 May 2025. The deadlines for the three programme pillars differ.
The idea behind the LIVING NEIGHBOURHOOD project is to plant publicly accessible apple orchards and create communities that plant, care for and celebrate together. Anyone who would like to create such a meadow in their neighbourhood can get in touch at pflanzen(at)chemnitz2025.de and take part in the planting weeks in spring and autumn 2025.
