Programme - Transeuropa festival

Towers of Winds Workshop

Workshops & walks. With Jon Goodbun.

Towers of Winds is an environmental architecture research project, exploring new design possibilities for passive downdraft evaporative cooling devices in Athens. These experiments provide zero-enegy cooling and air movement at the scale of individual buildings and urban spaces, and can contribute to climate adaptation in increasingly hot cities.

Environment.

Neighborhoods of Europe

Workshops & walks. With Paremvasi 2030.

Got ideas for bridging the gap between neighborhoods in Europe?
Bring them to the table.
Join us for a 2-hour magazine co-design workshop where young people co-create proposals for translocal activism in Europe, from AI and climate action to queer rights and migrant justice.

Journalism.

Opening Night

Music & Party. With ETERON.

Join us for the opening night of TRANSEUROPA: Recaliming The Cloud(s) at the heart of this years edition – ETERON. The space will be transformed into an interactive & playful exploration of this year’s themes, featuring installations, games, and participatory artworks, followed by key interventions and performances. It is a time for us to come together as the 2026 Transeuropa community!

AI & digital democracy, Environment, Feminism & queer rights, Journalism, Migrant rights.

Pixida Films presents The Sandbox

Film screenings & exhibitions. With Natalia Galgos, Pixida Film, Lydia Emmanouilidou.

A clear-sighted mapping of the fault lines on the world map of the 21st century. Power politics, migration, and surveillance are violent forces in a global drama, depicted with sharp artistic vision through The Sandbox.

This film screening will be presented by Pixida Films and followed by a panel discussion with Solomon’s editor in chief, Lydia Emmanouilidou, and other activists and people with lived experience.

Journalism, Migrant rights.

Tracing the Invisible: Performance-led mixed-media animation workshop

Workshops & walks. With Anna Járai. Moderated by BAUTOPIA, European Creative Hubs Network.

In this hands-on workshop, participants translate short movement gestures into printed video frames, altering them with mixed-media techniques to craft unique animation loops.

Feminism & queer rights.

On the Right to Breathe: Lessons from Serbia and Greece in governmental accountability through investigative journalism

Panel debates & assemblies.

This panel brings together journalists, researchers, and civil society voices to examine the devastating train accidents in Novi Sad, Serbia and Tempi, Greece, the critical role investigative reporting has played in uncovering the truth, and the social movements which have been birthed.

Journalism.

Workshop with independent journalists

Workshops & walks.

This closed door workshop brings together independent journalists for an exchange on the realities of working outside mainstream media structures. The session creates a space to openly discuss challenges such as political pressure, financial sustainability and personal risk as well as the strategies used to navigate them. Through moderated discussion and peer to peer dialogue, participants will engage directly with journalists to explore investigative approaches, ethical dilemmas, and collaborative models that sustain independent reporting. The workshop encourages participants to share experiences and perspectives in an environment with colleagues from other parts of europe

AI & digital democracy, Journalism.

Policy Discussion on Airbnb

Panel debates & assemblies.

Panel on the impact of Airbnb and short-term rental platforms on housing systems in European cities, focusing on housing affordability, displacement, and regulation. Brings together policy, research, and grassroots perspectives.

Environment, Migrant rights.

The Ministry of Renewable Extinction (MRX)

Workshops & walks. With Giun Trym. Moderated by BAUTOPIA, European Creative Hubs Network.

The Ministry of Renewable Extinction (MRX) is an on-going near future prototype of a ministry that offers jobs during the climate extinction. Upon the occupation orientation day, the ministry will walk you through its working methodology at the possible end of the world. For the Transeuropa Festival, the MRX will host its first-ever conference to widen its branch: how to create your own ministries with jobs from the future(s).

Environment, Feminism & queer rights.

OPEN CALL : Feminist & Queer Performance Night × Red Jasper Cabaret Theatre

Music & Party.

TRANSEUROPA festival is looking for 4 performance artists to join the program on Friday the 9th of October in Athens.

For one evening, TRANSEUROPA and Red Jasper Cabaret Theatre invite feminist queer performance art to take over the festival programmation.

Feminism & queer rights.

Celestial Boundaries

Workshops & walks. With Yasmine Amal.

Feminism & queer rights, Migrant rights.

DDC Assembly : AI and Migration

Panel debates & assemblies.

Migration control globally is increasingly trialing AI enhanced policing technologies which are elsewhere illegal, from surveillance in frontiers to ICE facial tracking. In the 7th assembly of Digital Democratic Commons, we wil question how digital infrastructure has created borders instead of connections in both online & physical realities – and how we can reimagine a real world wide web.

AI & digital democracy.