📅 Implementation: Mar 2025 – Mar 2026 (12 months)
💶 Total Budget: €239,727.60 | ERDF Contribution: €191,782.08
🤝 Partners: 2 institutions
🎯 Type: People-to-people project | P2P

Summary
CrossYounity+ uses the universal language of music to bring together young people from the ROHU border region, fostering cross-cultural understanding, unity, and trust. Through singing, music workshops, debates, camps, and concerts, the project promotes social bonding, cooperation, and empathy. It builds on the success of a previous initiative (ROHU256), expanding the music band with new young members and including children, while encouraging long-term cooperation between communities.

Project Aim
To enhance mutual trust in the ROHU area through cross-border music activities that connect at least 60 youth and children and 4 communities from the target area.

Objectives
✅ Promote cross-border cooperation through music
✅ Support local identity and cultural values
✅ Provide equal opportunities for youth to engage in musical activities
✅ Foster trust, understanding, and long-term cooperation

Key Activities & Results
🔹 Joint Themed Workshops – Music-focused sessions to build skills and cultural awareness
🔹 Joint Themed Debates – Discussions on music, identity, and cooperation
🔹 Joint Music Camps – Creative camps for youth to cooperate and perform
🔹 Music Box Installation – A public music box placed in Nyírbátor to promote cultural interaction
🔹 Joint Concerts – Performances showcasing cross-border cooperation
🔹 Cooperation Plan – A jointly developed strategy to promote church music culture in the ROHU area

By connecting communities through music, CrossYounity+ strengthens mutual trust, cultural identity, and long-term cooperation across the ROHU border.

For more details, consult the project fact sheet: EN and  check out the project's Facebook page.

Partnership
Lead Partner: Kécenlét Association (RO)
Project Partner: The Reformed Church from Nyírbátor (HU)