Throughout the year 2024, Unity Foundation offers dynamic workshops for young people aged 11 and over in high schools in Luxembourg, as well as for vulnerable youth, their teachers, and educators.

The workshops focus on the participants’ well-being, group cohesion, and their engagement in social progress. The activities include screenings of inspiring short films, artistic projects, collaborative games, and service projects.

These workshops aim to develop essential qualities such as empathy, resilience, collaboration, creativity, and self-confidence. Through various artistic activities (theater, dance, drawing, singing), participants explore their passions and acquire skills to become engaged actors of social change.

This project carefully examines respect for good manners and courtesy among young adolescents. Noting a lack of politeness among its students, Lycée Nic-Biever / Annexe Alliance launched the project “Hä?!… oder wat gelift?” with the objective of re-teaching the simple rules of etiquette through various workshops and activities. These activities will help young people become aware of basic forms of respect, such as saying “hello” and “please,” and will prepare them for adult life.

The project covers different areas, including art and writing, as well as music and the creation of short videos related to the theme. This is done in close collaboration with various artists and organizations, such as the municipality of Dudelange and the Jugendhaus Dudelange.

The project involves all students and teachers at the Alliance site of Lycée Nic-Biever, with each class working on a different aspect depending on their age and needs.

With this project, following the “Lux is Fashion” project also supported by the Fondation Sommer, Sarvenaz Kouchesfahani aimed to continue her exploration of different aspects of the fashion world with young people, while this time delving deeper into the publishing universe. By answering the question “What is Fashion,” the project leader, in collaboration with these aspiring designers, stylists, artists, and writers, created an online magazine highlighting the evolution of fashion in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Through bi-monthly workshops, Sarvenaz Kouchesfahani engaged the young participants in a collaborative effort that introduced them to editorial creation and encouraged their critical thinking. With this project, Sarvenaz Kouchesfahani aimed to enable young people to enhance their creative and artistic confidence while deepening their knowledge of the fashion industry. The magazine was unveiled during a vernissage on June 26, 2024, at the Lycée Technique pour Professions Éducatives et Sociales in Mersch.

This construction workshop, designed for young people aged 9 to 15, aims to introduce participants to careers in architecture, design, and craftsmanship through the creation of a mobile kitchen module. It will provide an opportunity to become familiar with the tools of the architect (drawing, modeling, etc.) and to understand the various stages of a project from conception to completion. Additionally, it will address contemporary themes related to the production of our built environment such as resource scarcity, circular economy, and reuse.

The workshop will be led by the DKollektiv team and will take place at VEWA in Dudelange. It will begin with a tour of the premises to introduce participants to industrial heritage and showcase an exemplary project in terms of self-construction and material reuse. The workshop will culminate in the creation of mobile kitchen modules to be used by DKollektiv, the VEWA community, or luca for events and workshops, notably during LUGA in 2025.

This construction workshop is part of the “Architektur SUMMER” workshop series developed as part of the educational program of luca – Luxembourg Center for Architecture, in collaboration with DKollektiv, and with the support of the Sommer Foundation.

Le CID Fraen a Gender, en collaboration avec l’Université du Luxembourg et la Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, a l’ambition à travers ce projet, d’étudier l’histoire de la musique dans une perspective de genre. La création du site mugi.lu, lancée fin 2022, permet, non seulement, de créer une collection digitale sur les compositrices au Luxembourg, mais aussi, de mettre à disposition du matériel pédagogique à destination d’enseignants. La création de ce matériel a débuté en automne 2022 dans des workshops avec des classes du fondamental et du secondaire. L’objectif de ces ateliers pratiques est de familiariser les enfants et les jeunes avec le thème de la recherche musicale à l’aide d’exemples concrets de musiciennes et compositrices du Luxembourg. Les élèves deviennent ainsi eux-mêmes des chercheurs, explorent les sources et découvrent un nouveau domaine professionnel avec lequel ils ont peu de contacts au quotidien.

Building on a longstanding momentum and the energy of a new wave of young individuals, Zaltimbanq’ wanted to implement the “Creation Workshops” project targeting children and youth aged between 9 and 13. After several years of practice, some youths are motivated to embark on a new, more specific, creative, and artistic adventure. This project was designed for them, eager to delve into the world of circus artistic creation. Through weekly classes, intensive workshops, presentation moments, cultural awakenings, and encounters, they have been provided with time and a limitless space for expression, where personalities, potentials, creativity, and community have been revealed.

This creation, which is nothing less than the culmination of the project, was unveiled during the 2024 Circus Festival, organized every two years by Zaltimbanq. With the theme of a train journey, the fifteen participants took spectators on an artistic journey punctuated by several stops presented in the form of artistic scenes. Juggling, acrobatics, unicycling, and cup-and-ball were on the program, along with self-improvement, teamwork, creativity, and the learning of new techniques.

This project enabled eight teenage girls from the 5th and 6th grades of the Lycée Classique de Diekirch to take their first steps in dance and embark on creating a collaborative performance. Gathering once a week since the start of the 2023/2024 school year, the students participated in workshops to determine the theme of the piece. These sessions sparked numerous discussions and exchanges about the motivations and concerns of today’s  teenagers. The chosen theme – emotions – was then translated into a choreography entirely created by the students, under the nurturing guidance and in collaboration with the dancer-choreographer Nathalie Moyen. On the school stage, the eight girls presented their performance, inviting the audience on a journey into the heart of the soul’s color palette.

Initiated by Professor Françoise Flesch, this project marks the first dance project at the Lycée Classique de Diekirch.

La représentation des parents d’élèves de l’école fondamentale de Mersch organisera un projet pour l’année scolaire 2023-2024 autour du sujet « prévention contre la violence et le harcèlement à l’école ». 

Il s’agit d’un projet extra-scolaire qui s’adresse aux parents et aux enfants scolarisés à l’école fondamental de Mersch. L’objectif de ce projet et de sensibiliser les parents et les enfants à la thématique de la violence et plus spécifiquement du harcèlement à l’école. Le projet vise à impliquer les élèves et les parents dans une démarche collective pour prévenir la violence, favoriser le respect mutuel et soutenir les victimes. 

Ce projet s’étirera tout au long de l’année scolaire 2023-2024 avec l’organisation de 3 activités : Une soirée d’informations pour les parents ; Une lecture matinale pour les enfants de 3 à 8 ans ; Un workshop pour les enfants de 8 à 12 ans.

The Dance Platform, organized by the company AWA – As We Are, takes place over two weeks dedicated to contemporary dance. Its objective is to bring together amateur and professional dance communities in Luxembourg and address current topics in the choreographic field. Since its inception, it has included an educational component for young people, and the year 2023 marked an additional step towards mediation. Indeed, around forty adolescents aged 13 to 16 participated in various workshops led by choreographers Léa Tirabasso and Baptiste Hilbert. These workshops allowed them to explore new gestural techniques and acquire tools for interpreting a piece. Some of them also had the opportunity to participate in a choreographic creation directed by Léa Tirabasso, a work that stimulated their free, spontaneous, and creative expression

With English becoming increasingly important as a global communication language, it’s essential for children to use it effectively. Many secondary schools in the Grand-Duchy have enhanced their standard English classes with English theatre options or extra-curricular activities. To celebrate and encourage this development, FEST asbl has been organizing the Festival of English-Language School Theatre since 2018. The fourth edition took place at the Rotondes in February 2024.

This event offered secondary schools the opportunity to perform short one-act plays in English for the public over a weekend. It allowed students to act in English at an established venue and see their peers perform, experiencing English spoken by both native and non-native speakers. Additionally, there were theatre workshops led by experienced professionals, where students could learn about various aspects of the performing arts, such as playwriting, movement, and basic acting skills.

Empowerment was evident through the joint effort and each student’s individuality contributing to putting together a show and bringing it to the stage in front of a larger audience. Students supported other groups by watching their shows, creating synergies, and finding solutions together.