Rosendal Teater is part of the four-year European collaborative project EUphoric Youth (2026–2029), supported by the EU's Creative Europe programme. The project brings together leading performing arts institutions from across Europe, including national theatres and prestigious international performing arts platforms.

The project's ambitions are very high, and the spirit is bold and experimental. It will be very exciting to see how the project develops across these diverse social and artistic contexts.

A European collaboration

The project is called EUphoric Youth, and coordinated by the Norwegian Rosendal Teater. It is carried out in collaboration with theatres, performing arts institutions and festivals in the Netherlands, France, Latvia, Germany, Hungary, Belgium, Italy and Portugal before the results are presented at the Festival d'Avignon in the summer of 2029.

Youth sets the agenda

In 2027, Rosendal Teater will publish an open call for seven teenagers in Trondheim. The selected participants will spend three years collaborating with youth groups in other European countries, visiting international festivals and developing their own artistic concepts.

The project culminates in a series of events created by the youth groups in all partner countries, before the results are presented to an international audience during the Festival d’Avignon in the summer of 2029.

Democracy in practice

The format breaks with traditional forms of youth engagement in the arts by involving them from the start. Instead of inviting young people into pre-defined projects, they will set the agenda and influence the structures and working methods of the institutions over time.

The long-term goal of the project is to connect local young people to a broad European network and contribute to long-term competence development in the fields of art, democracy and participation.

The result we work towards consists of both the artistic projects that are produced and the competence that is strengthened, but also the research that is done on them. When the project ends in 2029, an open and freely accessible toolbox for youth-led curation will be published. The aim is that the experiences from all partner countries can be used by art institutions across Europe.

More information about the open call and participation will be published during 2026.

Project period: 1 January 2026 – 31 December 2029

Full title: EUphoric Youth – European Forum for Open-source Researching, Instituting and Curating with Youth (2026–2029)

Partners:

SPRING Festival (SF), Utrecht, Netherlands

Rosendal International Theatre (NO), Trondheim, Norway

New Theatre Institute of Latvia (NTIL), Riga, Latvia

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

Tanzfabrik Berlin (TF), Germany

Trafó House (TH), Budapest, Hungary

Festival d’Avignon (FDA), France

ART DOT (AD), Kharkiv, Ukraine

Lavanderia a Vapore (LV), Turin, Italy

NTGent (NT), Ghent, Belgium

Materiais Diversos (MD) Minde, Portugal