Schools are an important place to fill the idea of Europe with concrete content and to promote awareness about the commonalities as well as seeing the diversity. With this in mind, the Foundation of German Business (sdw), held a four-day European seminar from November 16-19, 2011 with student teachers from Germany and Romania in Cluj-Napoca.

How can art critically think about Europe and its community spirit? What difference could a Europe community make, seen from an artistic point of view? Ten curators develop multiple scenarios and visualize how one might think about Europe, to initiate a next step in the implementation of a common, but multifaceted project in the participating countries.

From 30 July until 03 August, about 30 European Studies students from five cooperating universities came together at the Allianz Summer Academy (ASA) to discuss Europe’s ability to compete.

A series of panel discussions initiated by the Allianz Cultural Foundation in collaboration with Deutsches Theater Berlin and the Allianz Forum Pariser Platz. Media partners are Der Tagesspiegel and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb).

A panel discussion jointly supported by the Allianz Kulturstiftung (Allianz Cultural Foundation), Der Tagesspiegel, rbb Kulturradio and the initiative Deutsch plus in context of the Foundation Week in Berlin, the Berliner Stiftungswoche 2011.

Transeuropa Festival is at once a cultural festival and a political event. It is the first transnational Festival happening in 12 cities simultaneously and takes place form the 6th to 15th of May, 2011.

National mixed groups of European journalists visit several countries of the Balkan States and Turkey in order to collect stories for photo and video articles.

The 'Debate on Europe' series is an initiative of the Allianz Cultural Foundation in cooperation with the State Opera House Unter den Linden, Komische Oper, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Tagesspiegel and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg.

At this year's Allianz Alumni Academy in Madrid young qualified Europeans from 17 countries as well as political and economic experts from the EU came together to discuss the future of Europe. The Academy is an initiative of the Allianz Cultural Foundation.

Starting April 25th lasting until May 10th , London, Paris, Bologna, and Cluj - Napoca joined forces to create the Transeuropa Festival, Europe’s first truly transitional and innovative festival that combines culture, art, and politics happening simultaneously in these four cities. Welcoming thinkers, artists, politicians, curators, activists, and citizens from around the globe, it formed a cutting edge- programme.

Discussion panels organized by the Allianz Kulturstiftung, the Münchener RückStiftung and the Münchener Kammerspiele in cooperation with the SüddeutscheZeitung.

At this year's Allianz Alumni Academy in Madrid young qualified Europeans from 17 countries as well as political and economic experts from the EU came together to discuss the future of Europe. The Academy is an initiative of the Allianz Cultural Foundation.

With this event series the Allianz Cultural Foundation and its cooperation partners wish to contribute to the creation of a European public sphere in which vital topics concerning European unity can be debated. Among the speakers are Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Karel Schwarzenberg, Peer Steinbrück, Jean-Claude Juncker and many more.

The Center for Applied Policy Research (C·A·P) has launched a web dossier dealing with the elections on the European Parliament in 2009. The goal of the project is to point out the importance of the elections regarding legitimacy and democracy in the EU and to enhance civic participation at the European level.

In order to enhance the intercultural encounter and knowledge exchange in Odessa (Ukraine), the summer school for students of the Elite Network of Bavaria's (Elitenetzwerk Bayern) Eastern European Studies course, from 09/24/2009-10/07/2009, thematically focused on "Revolutions in the 20th Century in Eastern Europe".

Europe is and remains in search of an identity. The borders between countries are increasingly dissolving. Yet without a common history, it often proves difficult to grasp other cultures and accept their realities.

In this archive you can find past projects to 2008 in the category of education.