The Festival d'Avignon has joined the EUphoric Youth project!

  • EUphoric Youth

18 MARCH 2026

What if young people were at the very heart of programming in Europe's major cultural institutions?
That is the ambition of the EUphoric Youth project, supported by the European Commission: to give young people from across Europe a voice so that they can actively participate in artistic and cultural life and beyond that, in democratic life. The Festival d'Avignon is committing to this endeavour until 2029, alongside 10 European organisations from Norway, the Netherlands, Latvia, Germany, Hungary, Ukraine, Italy, Belgium, and Portugal.

Qui Som ?, Baro d'evel © Christophe Raynaud de Lage

The Festival d'Avignon is proud to announce its participation in the EUphoric Youth project, a European Commission-supported initiative that places young people at the heart of the artistic programming of cultural institutions.

Over the coming years, this network of partners will work together to develop an open-source and transferable programming methodology, designed to make cultural institutions more accessible, foster collaboration between European countries, and diversify audiences in the long term.

A collective commitment until 2029

The Festival d'Avignon is joining this project for five years, alongside ten European partners:

EUphoric Youth empowers teenagers across Europe to claim democratic agency via curatorial practice, reshaping Europe's cultural landscape and how artistic institutions engage with youth. The project advances Creative Europe's innovation objective by developing a transferable methodology of open-source curation to meaningfully engage the public in artistic programming, enhance institutional openness, diversify audiences and collaborate across borders in a new, more inclusive manner whereby local embeddedness is not the opposite, but the prerequisite of transnational exchange. The project goes beyond conventional youth engagement models that are limited to the creation of specific artistic outputs. Rather, teenagers are involved in setting the agenda, embedding their voices in programming and public engagement strategies, the core of institutional operations, fostering long-term institutional innovation and audience diversification.