Projects

26. August 2026Brüssel

35 years of the Weimar Triangle: four days in Brussels

Young people from Dortmund and Amiens worked, debated and visited the European Parliament together in Brussels.

6. September 2026Haus der Vielfalt, Dortmund

YOUTH4IMPACT: you ask, politics answers

Three weekend seminars, lots of practice and in the end your own podcast episodes with politicians and decision makers. Free, ages 16 to 27.

23. August 2026SIGNAL IDUNA PARK, Dortmund

Supercup at SIGNAL IDUNA PARK: a thank you for volunteering

Invited by the BVB-Lernzentrum and the Bundesliga-Stiftung, young volunteers watched the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup final.

9. August 2026Paris

IA-RT: art and artificial intelligence, a week in Paris

Young people from France, Germany and Armenia painted, debated, explored museums and showed their work at the town hall of the 10th arrondissement.

10. August 2026

New cooperation: Erasmus+ projects with VMDO and ESN Bochum

Together with Haus der Vielfalt, VMDO and ESN Bochum we take young people from Dortmund to Europe. Two calls are open right now.

1. July 2026Käthe-Kollwitz-Gesamtschule Lünen

HEIMAT has many faces: three days with 700 pupils in Lünen

As part of the project days Different origins, shared home?! we presented our photo exhibition at Käthe-Kollwitz-Gesamtschule.

23. June 2026Berlin

Press trip to Berlin: politics up close

Eleven young people from forum JUGEND! spent three days in Berlin at the invitation of Bundestag member Jens Peick.

13. December 2025

AI in rainbow community: who tells our story in the age of AI?

Youth exchange with EUROMOVE NMK: art, media and artificial intelligence as tools for expression and change.

10. January 2026Dortmund

Diving into AI: Erasmus+ youth worker mobility in Dortmund

Youth workers from several European countries spent a week exploring AI in youth work.

22. December 2025Dortmund

Creating Peace: Sofra builds integration

Interreligious Christmas dinner in Dortmund: one table, many communities.

20. October 2025SIGNAL IDUNA PARK, Dortmund

FUTURE U: creative project at the stadium

Young people develop images of their own future, right inside the stadium.

14. September 2025Westfalentag

HEIMAT at the 69th Westfalentag

Young photographers show what home means to them, in front of a large audience.

20. March 2025Dortmund

Interreligious iftar in Dortmund

People of different faiths break the fast together at one table.

30. November 2022Hörder Burg, Dortmund

HEIMAT wins the Dortmund Heimat-Preis 2022

First place with 48 percent of the votes: the photo exhibition HEIMAT: Yesterday and tomorrow!? wins over Dortmund.

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