Weimar Triangle Day 2026
About this event
The Weimar Triangle and European Languages Day will take place on Wednesday, September 23, 2026. This event brings Germany, France, and Poland together.
The venue is the Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz, Brückenstrasse 1, 02826 Görlitz.
Look forward to a diverse festival with a colorful mix of linguistic, European, social, literary, and creative offerings, readings, workshops, and much more. The program is intergenerational and multilingual; it is about encounters and inspiration! In this spirit, numerous institutions from the region, Saxony, France, Poland, and beyond will accompany the day with booths, discussions, and tasting offers. We want to meet in different languages, get to know the Weimar Triangle, our region, and our continent from different perspectives, and exchange ideas. Europe blossoms in togetherness!
ABOUT US The civil society network for the Weimar Triangle in Saxony was founded five years ago by the German-Polish Society of Saxony, the Europe Direct Institute for Intercultural and European Studies, as well as the European-Humanistic Education Foundation Waldenburg. Since then, the network has steadily grown, maintains a lively exchange, and has been organizing the Saxon Weimar Triangle and European Languages Day since 2024 – first in Dresden, then in the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz, and in 2026 in Görlitz. A project unique nationwide!
BACKGROUND The Weimar Triangle was launched 35 years ago in Weimar by the then foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland. The goal is to develop a common future vision for Europe and to enable coordinated cooperation in Europe through the reconciliation of these three nations. The European Day of Languages was initiated ten years later, in 2001, by the Council of Europe to celebrate Europe's linguistic diversity and to promote lifelong language learning. It takes place annually in the last week of September and is aimed at all generations. The goal is to strengthen awareness of Europe's linguistic heritage, promote intercultural understanding, and motivate people to learn European languages and use them in exchange.
