Foremost collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe, the Centre Pompidou brings together more than 120,000 works. It is the richest collection in Europe and the second in the world.
Committed to supporting emerging creation and provoking debate, the Centre Pompidou also develops a vibrant program at the crossroads of disciplines: cinema, dance, theater, performances, literature and debates.
www.centrepompidou.fr

La Gaîté Lyrique – Factory of our times
La Gaîté Lyrique is a City of Paris cultural center that seeks to address pressing cultural, social, democratic and climate issues. The Factory of our times project combines creation and social engagement to help people put ideas into practice as they gather together for a concert, roundtable, drink, performance, workshop or screening. La Gaîté Lyrique is open daily to support a new generation of talents, break down barriers between practices and audiences, and build new narratives on a European scale. La Gaîté Lyrique – Factory of our times offers new ways to create and act together, hand in hand with artists, activists, thinkers and changemakers.
www.gaite-lyrique.net

Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) is guided by the quest for strategies of how to live and better inhabit this world together. It is a house in which cultures of conviviality and hospitality are sown, nurtured to blossoming, and disseminated. It is a physical and affective space in which everyone has the possibility of breathing. HKW highlights the notion of ‘Welt’ in its name. It proposes concepts of the world that embrace pluralities of cultures, epistemologies, sociopolitics, spiritualities, and ways of being in the world. This plurality of ‘worlds’ manifests itself in the deliberations on and acknowledgement of the malleability and processuality of the worlds we have historically shaped and continue to shape. Berlin is host to citizens from 170 nations from around the world, and these people and their communities are fundamental in shaping HKW, not as subjects or visitors only, but as fellow travellers and co-makers of the programme. The programme is anchored around migrant-situated knowledges and the realities of the plethora of beings and histories that constitute our worlds today. The task at hand is to make HKW a house of multiplicities and international encounters. These cultures are lived and experienced rather than othered, or merely displayed.
www.hkw.de

The Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) is a multidisciplinary cultural centre that deals with the key challenges of contemporary society through different languages and formats, with an extensive programme that includes major thematic exhibitions, series of conferences and literary meetups, mediation and educational projects, film screenings and festivals. The CCCB works in collaboration with international institutions and agents while promoting ties with artists, creative collectives, curators, and independent cultural agents based in and around Barcelona, providing them with support and visibility and leveraging their creative capital. Its objectives include researching into new educational methods, developing new cultural formats and languages, and generating dense webs of interdisciplinary collaboration.
www.cccb.org

The Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO) is an international organization working for German-French and furthermore european cooperation, which has enabled more than 9,5 million young people from France and Germany to participate in around 382,000 exchange programs since 1963. Every year, the FGYO supports nearly 8,000 encounters (4,700 group exchange programs and 3,300 individual exchange programmes), in which 190,000 young people participate.
The FGYO supports youth exchange and youth projects between Germany and France. Projects include student exchanges for secondary schools and universities, language courses, twin towns and regional partnerships, sports meetings, internships and exchange in the field of career and seminar and research grants. 15% of FGYO fundingsare invested in trilateral programs.
www.ofaj.org

October Octopus is an agency created in 2016 with the purpose of organizing cultural events, assisting in all stages of their conception and realization: concept and programming, logistics and production, communication, and partnership development. Its core activites include multidisciplinary festivals, book fairs, lecture series, debates, readings, workshops... The agency also specializes in the design of educational programs and continuous training programs. The main missions of the agency within the context of Cultures d’Avenir are:

  • coordinating the overall project
  • designing the workshops together with the project partners and support them in their implementation
  • maintainig contact with the participants 
  • taking on central communication tasks
  • supporting the project partners in evaluating and assessing the project

The agency will be represented by Cédric Duroux (founder) and Nancy Moreno Pinto, who will be the main contacts for the participants.
www.october-octopus.com