Berlin’s Contribution to Europe – How the Bottom-Up Principle Succeeds

With the Europe Bottom-Up Platform, the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin provides a common digital platform that brings together all those bodies, organisations and initiatives that want to strengthen and advance Europe with the potential of culture and democracy, thus offering a tool for further exchange and cooperation.

In times of uncertainty and insecurity, our strength lies in our support networks and our European ties to each other. Only in this way can we live up to the concept of a Europe from below, in which citizens are empowered to help shape their Europe.

Because against the backdrop of the ongoing Russian attack on Ukraine, we have been made brutally aware since 24 February 2022 that peace and stability on the European continent cannot be taken for granted. The ongoing war is a direct attack on the values that are at the core of the European project: Democracy, human rights, freedom and the rule of law.

What contribution can the city of Berlin make? How does a bottom-up approach succeed? What are the impact powers and possible potentials to strengthen the commitment to Europe in and from Berlin?

18.00 Admission

18.30 Introduction: Yolanda Rother, Member of the Board Europe, Stiftung Zukunft Berlin

18.35 Presentation of the Europe Bottom-Up platform.

18.35-19.45 Panel discussion with members of the Committee for Culture and Europe of the Berlin House of Representatives Susanna Kahlefeld (Bündnis 90/Grüne), Sven Meyer (SPD), Björn Wohlert (CDU) and Klaus-Dieter Lehmann (Member of the Europe Bottom-Up Board of Directors) Moderation: Yolanda Rother, Member of the Board of Directors of Stiftung Zukunft Berlin.

19.45-20.30 Conclusion and informal exchange.

We ask for registration and look forward to seeing you there! Please register here.

The event will be held in German and streamed live.

Europe Bottom-Up is implemented by the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin and funded by the Federal Foreign Office.