A feminist transnational festival of arts, politics and culture. In the past decade, TRANSEUROPA has attracted thousands of attendees and active participants through a decentralised event structure in over a dozen European cities and a high profile moment in one city. For the 2026 edition, the main city for TRANSEUROPA is Athens and it will take place from 7-11 October 2026.
Reclaiming the Cloud(s)
Reclaiming the Cloud invites us to rethink air, digital space, and the commons as shared territories beyond borders. In a time marked by ecological crisis, misinformation, and increasingly securitised physical and digital frontiers, the festival explores how collective action, artistic practice, and transnational solidarity can reclaim these spaces for democracy. Bringing together artists, activists, researchers, and citizens, TRANSEUROPA26 imagines feminist, ecological, and participatory futures where the commons are protected from privatisation, exclusion, and authoritarian control, fostering new forms of care, resistance, and collective imagination.
Film screenings & exhibitions
Our film screenings and exhibitions bring together moving-image, visual and interdisciplinary artistic practices that explore contemporary social, political, and ecological questions. Through shared cultural experiences, they create spaces for reflection on the relationships between people, places and the non human world.
Music & Party
Our music programme and parties celebrate collective joy, cultural exchange, and the power of gathering. Bringing together live performances, DJs, and diverse musical traditions, they create inclusive spaces where people connect, dance, and experience culture as a shared and participatory practice.
Panel debates & assemblies
Our panel debates and assemblies bring together artists, researchers, activists, policymakers and local communities to exchange ideas and address pressing social, political and ecological challenges. Through open dialogue and collective participation we open spaces for critical reflection and the development of shared visions for more just and sustainable futures.
Workshops & walks
Our workshops and walks bring people together to explore places through collective learning, dialogue and shared experience. Combining artistic and cultural perspectives, they invite participants to discover communities and local histories while engaging with the social and environmental challenges shaping our territories.
Venues
EA Imagination Coordinator
Billie Dibb coordinates the imagination stream of European Alternatives, overseeing the organisation’s artistic and cultural projects. They hold an academic background in International Politics, with a focus on gendered nationalism and big data.
Camillo Cantarano ⎯ Giun Trym ⎯Giun Trym (he/him) is a speculative social designer and a human rights defender. His work spans from micro-, meso-, to macro-politics as he founded a youth-led organization in the Czech Republic to organize parties for social transformation, while writing human rights violation reports to the UN Human Rights Council. During his free time, Giun also runs a meme page (or the meme page runs him?). As the nature of his work harmonizes between politics, culture, and design, Giun utilizes his background to put abstract theories into real-world politics and diplomacy.
Irene Alonso Toucido ⎯
EA Assembly and Deliberation Manager
Irene Alonso Toucido is the Assembly and Deliberation Manager at European Alternatives, where she explores how we live, decide, and care together through democratic experimentation. With roots in sociology and a strong interest in the commons, ecofeminism, and community practices, her work seeks to reimagine participation, not only as a right, but as a shared practice of shaping and sustaining life in common.
Jon Goodbun ⎯Jon trained as an architect, and currently is a researcher, practitioner and educator at the RCA, the University of Westminster (MSc Advanced Environmental Design), and the Bartlett (MArch).
In relation to Climate Justice research and the Environmental Architecture programme at the RCA, his recent work and publications have focused on the need for an dialogical re-conception of design, planning and strategy in relation to the emerging demands for global and local Green New Deals, while his co-authored 2014 book The Design of Scarcity has recently been translated into German (2018) and Greek (2020).
Work based in material from the Bateson archive, together with various dialogic and pedagogic experiments, is moving towards a book entitled The Ecological Calculus, while a series of environmental architecture field projects are underway in Greece, in particular around evaporative cooling and pollution in Athens.
Louna Sbou ⎯EA Board Member
Louna Sbou (she/they) is a cultural entrepreneur, changemaker and community-builder, educated in Law and Cultural Entrepreneurship in Germany and the UK. As a queer Amazigh Muslim, her lived experiences shape a non-Western approach to collective-making, research and resilient leadership.
Lydia Emmanouilidou ⎯Lydia is a journalist and audio producer based between Greece and the US. Her work has appeared in news outlets such as The New York Times, NPR, BBC, Al Jazeera and more. She has specifically investigated the topic of border regimes and new technologies. She is currently serving as co-editor-in-chief at the Greek investigative outlet Solomon.
Marta Cillero Manzano ⎯EA Communications Director
Marta Cillero is Managing Director at Fondazione Studio Rizoma (Palermo) and Communications Manager at European Alternatives. She holds degrees in Media Studies, Journalism and Communication (Madrid, Istanbul, and Chicago) and a master’s in Gender Studies (Rome). Her research and writing focus on gender violence in Mediterranean countries.
Mila Bajic ⎯ Natalia Galgos ⎯Producer and Change-Maker, working creatively and innovatively for the inclusion of marginalised communities.
Niccolò Milanese ⎯EA Director
Niccolò Milanese is a poet and one of the founding directors of European Alternatives. He fosters the development of the organisation, its staff and the ecosystem around European Alternatives and is the focal point for the ‘learn’ stream of our work.
Noemi Pittalà ⎯EA Communications Officer
Noemi Pittalà is a multidisciplinary artivist and cultural professional from Palermo, working at the intersection of art and social inclusion. With a background in visual arts and theatre, she has specialised in communications within the cultural sector, with a focus on community engagement, radical inclusion, and active youth participation.
Ophélie Masson ⎯EA Deputy Director
Ophélie coordinates the programmes that aim at developing and implementing sustainable tools of participative democracy such as citizens assemblies and ECIs. She also co-coordinates the Citizens Take Over Europe coalition.
Paremvasi 2030 ⎯Paremvasi 2030 is a non-formal network of youth organizations and activists that believe in creating open, progressive, participatory spaces of action. The word «Paremvasi» stands for «Intervention», while 2030 is a call to action to the present, while keeping the horizon to the future.
The first project of the initiative is the Participatory Magazine, a collective space of ideas and proposals, created in cooperation with Inter Alia and with the support of Eteron Institute.
Pixida Film ⎯ Ruxandra Stan ⎯EA Administrative Officer
Ruxandra Stan is a Romanian citizen who relocated to Paris in 2015. She holds a degree in Computer Science as well as a Master’s in Commercial Business Law. Her professional career in finance includes experience within banking institutions and government organizations, where she has developed strong expertise in financial operations and regulatory compliance.
Sarah Hachem ⎯ Ségolène Pruvot.EA Director
Ségolène Pruvot is Director of European Alternatives. Holding a doctorate in Urban Sociology, her work sits at the intersection of arts, the city, and social change. She trained as a political scientist and urban planner in France, the UK, and Germany.
