From 5 to 31 May 2021 the "European Festival" is held in Venice, the great Venetian event, now in its ninth edition, that does not stop despite the coronavirus emergency as a sign of the pro-European nature and resilience of the City of Venice and the institutional partners who have always collaborated.

In particular, this year’s edition "Pensare europeo da 1600 anni" is linked to the celebrations of the 1600 years of Venice (1600.venezia.it), which has always been an intercultural and cosmopolitan city, open to Europe and the world. According to a thousand-year-old tradition, 25 March 421 is commonly recognized as the day of foundation of the city of Venice, as evidenced by the manuscript source of the Chronicon Altinate and, in more recent times, Marin Sanudo who, describing the great Rialto fire of 1514 in his Diaries, he writes: “..... solum restò in piedi la chiexia di San Giacomo di Rialto… la qual fu la prima chiexia edificata in Venetia dil 421 a dì 25 Marzo, come in le nostre croniche si leze…”.

 

 

The date of the event is significant since 9 May represents "The European Festival". Indeed, on 9 May 1950, a few years after the end of the Second World War which had devastated the old continent, Robert Schuman, the French Government’s Foreign Minister, presented the proposal to create an organized Europe, It is essential for the maintenance of peaceful relations between the constituent States. The proposal, known as the "Schuman Declaration", is considered the European Union’s birth certificate.
Around this symbolic date every year we celebrate Europe Day with the organisation of various events by the European institutions and the Member States.

More info on the Europe day and European Festival.
 

The Festival of Europe in Venice has been held in this format since 2013: see the previous editions. 

Vai all'edizione 2013
Vai all'edizione 2014
Vai all'edizione 2015
Vai all'edizione 2016
Vai all'edizione 2017
Vai all'edizione 2018
Vai all'edizione 2019

 

Some numbers of the 2020 event in Venice:
- 32 events including virtual meetings and presences, exhibitions, stands, shows, seminars and online initiatives
- 2000 stakeholder participation of young people and citizens and over 4700 subsequent views
- 30 partners operationally involved between local, national and European institutions and organisations

 

10.00 a.m.=> visit of the President of the City Council of Venice, Ermelinda Damiano at the headquarters Europe Direct, via Spalti 28, Mestre Venice
11.00 a.m.=> round table with all partners from Veneto
Live video open to citizenship

at 5 p.m. cycle in meetings CAFFÈ EUROPA "Europe and Venice for 1600 years"- go to the webpage 

Live video open to citizenship

 

THURSDAY 6 MAY
10.00 a.m => Virtual opening exhibition "Mothers and Founding Fathers of the European Union" and Project Award "EPAS - European Parlament Ambassador School" - go to the webpage 
Live video open to citizenship

 

SATURDAY 8 - SUNDAY 9 MAY => Veumeu - Venice Universities Model European Union - go to the webpage
Simulation of the European Parliament for registered students

 

Live video open to citizenship

 

at 10.00 a.m.=> online award ceremony of the competition "We become European citizens" for high schools in Veneto - go to the webpage

at 5.00 p.m. => cycle in meetings CAFFÈ EUROPA "Europe, Venice and the fight against discrimination"-go to the webpage

Live video open to citizenship

 

TUESDAY 11 MAY
at 4.00 p.m. => online meeting "Youth mobility for the future of Europe"- go to the webpage 

Webinar for young university students and high schools in Veneto edited by ESN Erasmus Student Network in Venice, Padua and Verona

 

webinar in lingua inglese su temi di attualità di interesse per la cittadinanza e gli studenti - evento su iscrizione

Live video open to citizenship

 

FRIDAY 14 MAY
at 12.00 a.m. => final event "ASOC - A School of Opencoesione"- go to the webpage

Live video open to the students who participate to the project

at 5 p.m. => Presentation of the films finalists of the LUX Prize 2021" - go to the webpage

Live video open to citizenship

4-13 May Collective projection on demand free on Mymovies
4-6 May Corpus Christi free on-demand projection on Mymovies

 

Live video open to citizenship

 

at 8.45 a.m. =>  "Viaggio europeo nel clima che cambia" con Luca Mercalli

First meeting of the cycle "We are the Green Deal" - go to the webpage

Live video open to citizenship

at 5.00 p.m. => Presentation of the Europe Direct Centres in Veneto and the "Guide to European Funding for 2021"- go to the webpage

Live video open to citizenship

 

Live video open to citizenship

 

=> "Europa in musica" - Concert of the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in Venice performed by the string quartet the "Manfredi Quartet" - go to the webpage

Live video open to citizenship

 

Live video open to citizenship