As part of the "European Borderlands" project, for which the Allianz Kulturstiftung (AKS) was the first recipient of the "German Culture Award of the BDI" in 2006, the foundation and the Literarische Colloquium Berlin (LCB) organize readings by authors and literary festivals along the EU’s borders. The platform for these events are the yearly international meetings in literary centers in Central and Eastern Europe as well as in Germany.

Following project stages in Poland and the Ukraine in 2006, and in Romania and the Republic of Moldavia in 2007, planned for 2009/10 are stages in Lithuania and White Russia as well as in Hungary and Serbia.

Parallel to this, the AKS collaborates with the Fund for Central and East European Book Projects Amsterdam (CEEBP) to encourage translations of standard works in the humanities into Central and Eastern European languages. Yearly, the promotion of approximately 35 book translations is supplemented by awarding a remunerated translator’s prize of 10,000 euros for important translations from German into Eastern European languages (see the Allianz Translator’s Prize).

The goal is to establish the fundamental principles for a lasting intellectual exchange between East and West Europe.

In September 2009, the literature festival featuring trips by authors to Europe's easternmost borders lead to Belarus and Lithuania – two of Eastern Europe's neighbouring countries connected by a long mutual history and at the same time separated from one another by the external frontier of the Community. Several authors from Poland, the Ukraine, and Germany travelled to Minsk and Vilnius to meet there with authors from Belarus and Lithuania...

Reading of Volker Braun (Germany) and panel discussion with György Dragomán (Hungary), Jaroslav Rudiš (Czech Republic) and Olga Tokarczuk (Poland). Moderated by Jörg Magenau, literary critic and author. On Monday, March 9, 2009, 8:00 p.m., at the Allianz Stiftungsforum (Pariser Platz 6, Berlin).

In March 2008, the authors who participated in Romania and Moldavia in early June of 2007 were invited to the Leipzig Book Fair, where they once again took part in readings and panel discussions.

Previous stages of European Borderlands were in Lemberg (Ukraine) in 2006, in Basel and Leipzig in the spring of 2007, as well as in Bucharest, Iaşi (Romania) and Chişinau (Republic of Moldavia) in the summer of 2007.