Reimagining Europe’s Future

Europe has never been a finished project. It is continuously shaped through crisis and cooperation, imagination and resistance, care and conflict. In a moment marked by ecological urgency, democratic fragility, and profound geopolitical change, the question is no longer simply ‘‘what is Europe?’’ but ‘‘how might Europe become otherwise?’’

The Euroculture Intensive Programme (IP) 2026, hosted in Groningen, invites students to engage with this question not as distant observers, but as active participants. Rather than diagnosing Europe’s “crises” or predicting its futures, the IP creates a shared space for experimentation, rehearsal, and collective imagination. It asks how Europe can be practiced differently, through new forms of connection, creative inquiry, and care.

Across three intertwined dimensions (Connectivity, Creativity, and Care), participants explore how political institutions, cultural practices, and social relations can be rethought under conditions of uncertainty. Imagination here is not a luxury or an escape. It is a method: a way of sensing, learning, and acting together when familiar answers no longer hold. Through seminars, collaborative labs, and public enactments, students work alongside artists, educators, policymakers, and civic actors to rehearse possible European futures in the present.

Situated in the city of Groningen, the IP turns place into pedagogy. The local becomes a lens on the European, and Europe itself emerges as unfinished, plural, and open to transformation. The programme treats learning as a shared process—one that values slowness, curiosity, and experimentation as much as critique.

The Euroculture IP 2026 welcomes participants who are willing to stay with complexity, to think creatively across disciplines, and to imagine Europe not as a fixed destination, but as a collective practice still in the making.

Europe remains unfinished. Its futures must be practiced—again and again.