Market of Opportunities

Screen Printing Workshop & Youth Participation

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What is fair? - You decide the story

Three friends win the lottery. A lot of money, many possibilities – and suddenly many questions: Who gets how much? What is fair? What matters more – need, achievement, or chance? In this interactive story, you decide what happens next: At several turning points, you and others decide what the characters should do – and experience how their relationships, opportunities, and conflicts change as a result. In the end, the big question remains: What is actually fair – and why doesn't everyone see it the same way?
A format for thinking along, empathizing, and making decisions.

Mind Matters - Mental Health in Adolescents

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Experiencing educational equity through play – by young people for young people

🎯 Fair Chance? – Making Educational Inequality Visible
How much does luck count? How much does knowledge? And how much effort?
At the Young Economy Club's booth, you'll find out – in an interactive course with three stations:
🌀 Birth Lottery – Spin the roulette: With what starting point in life do you enter the race?
📚 Knowledge Duel – Test your knowledge! Because education can improve opportunities.
🎯 Aim with Handicap – Hit the bullseye – but what if the rules aren't the same for everyone?
Experience playfully how unequal starting conditions and structural barriers shape life. In the end, we ask together:
👉 What is actually fair? And what would need to change?
💬 Come by, try it out – and share your opinion!

Where should the money go? – You decide!

Health, education, sustainability, defense – the state spends money on many things. But what is most important to you? At our decision shelf, there are eleven areas to choose from where state funds can be allocated. Your task: Prioritize! You decide what goes on top – and what might end up lower down.
It's not just about money, but also about values: What's important to you? What does your generation need? And where should more happen? Come by and shape your own budget reality – without numbers, but with a clear stance.

Education? Looks good! The Virtual Reality Experience

What are 'Green Jobs'? What does a chemical technician do? What does a tiler's daily work look like? And most importantly: What do you want to do? No idea? No problem! Grab a VR headset and find out! Come over to the GenNow-Space on Schlossteichinsel and dive into many different virtual professional worlds. From crafts to IT system management – training has more to offer than you think!

Youth Culture made in Chemnitz - CREATE.U Space

The youth projects of CREATE.U, the youth program of Chemnitz2025, are introducing themselves! Get to know us, discover our projects, and craft your KOSMOS Friends bracelets with us.

Message in a Bottle Service

At the Message in a Bottle Office on Castle Pond Island, you are invited to write a letter to a stranger. We pose a question – you respond to it. Our Message in a Bottle clerk is happy to assist you. The responses are packaged as messages in bottles and delivered by you personally or by our mobile Message in a Bottle courier to the second branch in the enter area. Other submissions are already waiting for you there! Fish the message in a bottle out of the mailbox and open an anonymous message. What story awaits you here? With the MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE OFFICE, we build the bridge between the enter area and GEN NOW X CREATE.U. Together, we make young voices visible at the Cosmos Festival. This action is a cooperation between the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Federal Cultural Foundation, and CREATE.U.