One step forward for Berlin Mondiale in 2025

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In November 2024, the Berlin Senate cut our funding. Overnight, our work – and with it a network that has spent years fostering cultural participation, diversity, and collaboration in the context of migration, asylum, and exile – was suddenly at risk.

Since then, we’ve done everything we can to keep going: we’ve held countless conversations, written funding proposals, mobilized supporters, and strengthened our solidarity networks.

Now, there is a first ray of hope:
The Lotto Foundation Berlin will support one strand of our work in Gropiusstadt, Spandau and Marzahn over the next three years. This funding provides us with essential resources, gives us room to plan ahead, and enables us to continue a core project. We are deeply grateful – and we see this support as an important recognition of our commitment.

At the same time, we want to be transparent:
This funding doesn’t save us 100%. Many formats, collaborations, and structures that Berlin Mondiale has built in recent years can no longer continue in their usual form. We’ve reached a turning point – and we now have to reinvent ourselves to some degree: in terms of our content, organization, and strategy.

Berlin Mondiale will continue. But we still rely on support. That’s why we are actively seeking additional funding and strategic partnerships to secure our work in the medium and long term. We’re looking for partners who want to join us in strengthening decentralized cultural work and anchoring it sustainably in Berlin’s urban society.

We thank everyone who has supported us this far – for your solidarity, your trust, and your persistence. We will keep going. And we welcome everyone who wants to walk this path with us.

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Contact: info@Berlin-Mondiale.de

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