Europe Learning Café & Lab

Understand, Debate and Craft Europe Together
C*SPACE Learning Program
September 21–26, 2025
C*SPACE Berlin
Langhansstr. 86, Pankow-Berlin

 

What’s in Europe for us, for you today?
Between 21 and 26 September 2025 C*SPACE transfers into a Europe Learning Café, a ‘campus’ for exploring  Europe and the European cultural, creative, political and innovation context. In a café house style setting, we invite open, participatory dialogues on European values, democracy, and cultural diversity, while critically reflecting on colonial histories and uneven privileges.

Who should join? Everyone with a curious mind and interest in Europe: social entrepreneurs, creatives, civil society actors, students, neighbors, and migrant communities in Pankow. The Europe Learning Café will be conducted in multiple languages.

Why join? The project offers both foundational knowledge about Europe and practical and creative skills in participation and co-creation, new networks, possibilities to. Certificates of participation will be issued on demand.

The learning program is organised by C*SPACE Berlin and supported by the Berlin Senate Chancellery, Department for European Affairs.

1 – Comprehend: Understanding Europe

Monday, 22 September | 4:00–8:00 p.m.

The first day of the forum opens up several themes in connection with the European knowledge and frameworks. There will be parallel sessions on philosophy and innovation policies as well as European history, philosophy  and migration. The sessions will not only provide an overview but invite you to shape your own opinion and get involved practically.

  • Innovation frameworks: From Horizon Europe to Erasmus+: Why frameworks exist and how can you be involved? Host & Input: Anastasia Zagorni, Core Kollektiv incl. a guest from European Bauhaus program.
  • Philosophy of Europe: Inspiration from the perspective of the European philosophy. Host & Input: Prof. Dr. Sabrina Dittus
  • Colonial history of Europe: Where and how can we be sensitive to prevailing structures, and what are the ways for healing? Host & Input: tbc
  • Migration and Belonging: How do we navigate between our old and new home(s)? Host & Moderator: Yang Xiyu, International Office University of Potsdam, Intercultural Mediator, Member of the Board 706 Berlin e.V. (tbc).

The workshops will combine expert input with participatory dialogue formats.

2 – Co-Create: Shaping Europe Together

Wednesday, 24 | 4:00–8:00 p.m.

Do you have an idea for a European project and need feedback, support, or like-minded collaborators? Are you looking to make the most of upcoming calls like Erasmus+ or the New European Bauhaus to bring your idea to life? Maybe you would rather join someone else’s initiative, or simply experience the power of co-creation in action and learn the latest methodologies? Whatever your starting point, you are warmly invited to our Open Co-Creation Day! A space to connect, create, and move from ideas to concepts paving the way to action. For those who have joined the Part I of the Learning Cafe and want to look deeper as well as open to new guests.

  • Facilitated co-creation sessions, applying innovation methodologies, where participants can pitch their own ideas or can join other peers ideas
  • Inspirational inputs: 
    • “European Understanding in a nutshell: Summary from Europe Learning Cafe Part I
    •  application for further inputs is welcome! 

3 – Craft, Speak, Celebrate – European Day of Languages

Friday, 26 September | Time – 16:00-21:00

September 26th is the European Day of Languages. On the third day of our European Learning Café & Lab, we invite you to celebrate the rich diversity of European languages in creative and engaging ways. From craft workshops exploring non-verbal communication, to a playful linguistic dinner, and the co-creation of a unique European Language & Type Wall in collaboration with the UDK Typo Lab, this final day promises both inspiration and joy, along with new skills to take away. Open to new guests as well as those who joined Part I and Part II.

  • Language & Type Wall & Workshop with Roman Wilhelm, Head of the TYPO Lab at the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK)
  • Crafts as non-verbal communication: 
    • Workshop by Feminist Spaces Collective & Radical Softness (making a collective artwork inspired by feminist care with with Polina Medvedeva and Sveta Gorlatova).
    • Workshop by CORE_Kollektiv (textile decor + reuse with Olexandrina Protasova)
    • Workshop by CORE_Kollektiv ( “light catcher” with Inna Tarasova)
  • Language Café with BENN Weißensee
  • A ‘European Language Dinner’ as a special edition of the C*SPACE Dinner Social Club. Expect to dive into entertaining sessions on languages and on sharing your language related story.

Complementary activities – The Europe Learning Lab

The program is accompanied by mappings and individual dialogues (‘The Europe Learning Lab’) which began with C*SPACE’s participation in the European Co-Working Day in May 2025 and will continue in various contexts in June, July, and August. This Europe Learning Lab-phase is also an invitation for various actors – you? –  to enter into a dialogue an a possible cooperation in the frame of this project. Please contact us if you want to relate. project@c-space.eu

TEAM & PARTNERS

Polina Medvedeva (Urbanist & Founder of the Feminist Spaces Collective): is a purpose-driven project manager and researcher with a background in communications, urban studies, and international grassroots initiatives. She is interested in rethinking how everyday practices and collective spaces can support care, inclusive participation, and diverse forms of togetherness across Europe.

Katja Hellkötter is a co-founder of C*SPACE and has been working for 20 years as an intermediary actor in transcultural cooperation at the intersection of business, society, and culture. She is a trained process facilitator and a passionate curator of exchange, creative, and cultural projects.

Katya Romanova is C*SPACE Program & Communications Manager. She develops interdisciplinary projects across Europe based on creative participatory methods to foster dialogue and active engagement in urban spaces. She currently coordinates Urban Storytelling School, an Erasmus+ funded project between C*SPACE and the Center for Social Vision, Bulgaria.

Anastasia Zagorni is an educational designer, founder of CORE_Kollektiv and artist. Drawing on her experience in entrepreneurship, and organising of communities she is currently designing programs for future skills, with focus on empowering creative migrant individuals and groups. Anastasia is part of the several European initiatives. Many places in Europe strive for a greener and socially equitable future. Anastasia is keen to support this process by contributing to a pool of collective knowledge.

ORGANIZERS AND COOPERATION PARTNERS

C*SPACE

C*SPACE is a creative hub located in a former furniture factory in Berlin-Pankow Weißensee – a space for new ways of working and meaningful projects focused around regenerative future models. The multilingual team curates innovative formats in education, cultures, and exchanges – with the aim of fostering creative connections, inspiring ideas, and enabling lifelong learning. Art and design are central drivers of social transformation. Cultural flagship projects in the past 5 years include the Pop-Up Teahouse Berlin  (developed with the Berlin-Asia community), KIEZ:MOBIL (creating inclusive public spaces in Weißensee), and C*LAB (a platform for social entrepreneurship).

C*SPACE stands for local engagement as much as, global openness and solidarity, and for a European mindset. In 2025, the Europe Learning Café & Lab will launch as a new program within the C*SPACE Learning Space, coinciding with C*SPACE’s membership in the European Creative Hub Network.

CORE_Kollektiv

CORE_Kollektiv stands for diversity and interdisciplinarity. It is an intercultural group, mostly made up of individuals with migration backgrounds, working across visual arts, design, science, and crafts. They collaborate with each other and with other partners to realize collective artistic projects, cultural services, and educational initiatives rooted in social contexts. The collective focuses on art exploration, circular economy & transformative education.

Visuals: Maria Fallada Llandrich. Conversations within Transitions is a drawing series created during various public interventions with the KIEZ:MOBIL. Most of the drawings were made at Caligariplatz, Weißensee.

CONTACTS:

C*SPACE Berlin gGmbH
project@c-space.eu
www.c-space.eu