Funding is available for ideas from educational institutions, local associations and individual actors working with non-profit partners that are committed to encouraging interaction among different cultures. Additional information and the relevant requirements are listed below. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at +49 5241/ 81-81 533. 

The projects receiving funding in 2023/2024 are:

1. BRASS IST KRASS (BRASS IS CRASS)
   Design of musical spaces for meeting and interacting; sponsor/initiator: Bürgerstiftung Halle (Saale)
2. DIGITAL DREAM
   Artistic applications and responsible use of digital media via dance-related content; sponsor/initiator: TanzPartner e.V., Nuremberg
3. HIGH COOL MUSICAL EBERSTADT
   A colorful musical theater project for children based on the topics “Respect for Each Other” and “Courageous Together”; sponsor/initiator: Jugendkulturarbeit *huette des ev. Dekanats Darmstadt
4. ICH SCHENK DIR MEINEN SONG (I GIVE YOU MY SONG)
   Project for developing songs at two secondary schools, which are shared using digital toolboxes; sponsor/initiator: Kzwo10 e.V., Kassel
5. ILSE MEETS THERESIENSTADT
   Dramatic reading, exhibition and children’s opera for raising awareness and preventing anti-Semitism; sponsor/initiator: Ilse Löwenstein School, Hamburg
6. NATURSINNE (NATURAL SENSES)
   Development of a dance performance; experiencing, moving, creating and reflecting on the relationship between humans and nature; sponsor/initiator: conecco gUG, Hamburg
7. RESPEKT! (RESPECT!)
   Musical interactions between an adult choir and a multicultural children’s group through poems and thoughts on the subject of respect; sponsor/initiator: Das Übehaus Kray e.V., Essen
8. SO KLINGT DIE WELT – MUSIK VERBINDET UND KENNT KEINE GRENZEN
   (THIS IS HOW THE WORLD SOUNDS – MUSIC CONNECTS AND KNOWS NO BORDERS)
   Learning about instruments, dances and musical works from different cultures and in different languages; sponsor/initiator: Städt. TEK Fichtenstraße, Gütersloh
9. SOUNDSCAPES
   Storytelling in the Kenyan tradition with dance and music; sponsor/initiator: KinderKinder e.V., Hamburg
10. TRANSKULTURELLE STADTTEILOPER (TRANSCULTURAL COMMUNITY OPERA)
    Development of a community opera based on a positive culture of pluralism and enriching (musical) diversity; sponsor/initiator: Bridges – Musik verbindet gGmbH, Frankfurt
11. VIELFALT ENTDECKEN – GESTALTE DEINE WELT AUS KUNST UND KLANG!
    (DISCOVER DIVERSITY – CREATE YOUR WORLD OF ART AND SOUND!)
    Community education course with art workshops and exhibition; sponsor/initiator: Volkshochschule Meppen gGmbH
12. VIELFALT VERBINDET UND MACHT STARK (DIVERSITY CONNECTS AND EMPOWERS)
    Animated film project at three (educational) institutions; sponsor/initiator: Ein Schutzengel für Kinder e.V., Halle/ Saale
13. #ZUSAMMEN BUNT (#COLORFUL TOGETHER)
    Musical project for promoting social integration and preventing xenophobia; sponsor/initiator: FRÖBEL Bildung & Erziehung gGmbH, Berlin (Implementation: KiTa “Sternchen” in Potsdam)
14. ALEF-BET – Musical alphabet for a culture of remembrance (sustainability project)
    School project with German-Jewish songs for promoting a Jewish culture of remembrance; sponsor/initiator: Verein zur Gründung der Kulturstiftung Schloß Wernsdorf e.V., Wernsdorf

Project information

We want our call for projects to serve as a catalyst for developing and implementing project ideas and for encouraging as many institutions and stakeholders as possible to get involved. Moreover, we hope that the projects we support will be widely emulated. At the end of each year, the Liz Mohn Foundation’s Executive Board considers the project proposals submitted online and decides which will receive support, including the amount of funding. We immediately provide written notification to participants in the chosen projects. The projects can begin as of the following January and must begin no later than March. The projects should be completed by July.

Project conditions

Every year, institutions, associations, clubs, foundations, educational/youth facilities, project alliances and individual initiatives from throughout Germany that pursue charitable aims are invited to develop musical and cultural projects designed to promote the social integration of children and young people. The projects should make use of music and/or the visual arts, performing arts or literature to achieve their goals.

What we are looking for:

• Creative, practical initiatives that can serve as role models for promoting interaction and understanding among people.
• Projects that are jointly developed and implemented by multiple project partners.
• Projects that actively involve their participants in as many project phases as possible.
• New project ideas or established projects with a new focus.
• Projects with a duration of three to six months. The project must begin between January and March – not before. The project must be completed by July.

For example, the following are not supported:

• Projects for learning a musical instrument.
• Projects for forming a band or ensemble.
• Projects that have already begun.
• Projects promoting international exchange among young people.

The foundation aims to identify and provide funding to projects submitted to the Cultural Diversity With Music initiative that are particularly worthy of support, provided they are non-profit in nature and the application they submit meets the substantive and formal criteria laid out in our online application form. 

The Cultural Diversity With Music initiative funds up to 15 projects every year, with each project receiving a maximum one-time grant of €7,500, but not more than 80% of the total project budget. Applications for the initiative must be submitted using our online form. The next round of applications is scheduled to begin in summer 2024.