EUphoric Youth

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. Our project goes beyond conventional youth engagement models that are limited to the creation of specific artistic outputs. Rather, we involve teens 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.