A complex of different activities that try to mediate and deal with the concept of "European Identity".

What is Europe: a historical constellation, a visionary political project, or rather an economic challenge? Do the borders of Europe depend on its member states, those countries that want to belong to the EU, those that develop it together or those that are committed to its values? Which hopes, expectations or fears are connected with Europe? How does Europe affect people who are not (yet) involved in the European process?

There is no better place to examine "European Identity" than on its borders or, more precisely, in those areas that are currently in the process of "becoming- European". The political, social and economic processes that occur at the expanding "Eastern margins" of the EU also influence the terms of integration and exclusion.

The process of “becoming European” becomes officially legible. Political, social and economic processes, changes, breaks and rejections in the South-Eastern European bordering countries identify and differentiate an entity. From an economic point of view, the enlargement negotiations formally pave the way that has long been trampled on and is now becoming a multi-lane transit-road. "Mission Europe" tries to involve a cultural practice and an artistic approach towards these processes also reflecting on missionary concepts.

On June 23 to 24 2006, a symposium took place in Weimar. There representatives of Red Cross Bulgaria, European Movement Serbia, Centre for Cultural Decontamination Belgrade, Regional Environmental Centre Sarajevo, Bundeswehr (Mission ‘Althea’, Sarajevo) and scientific researchers of culture and economy talked about their work in those countries that are in the process of EU accession. The symposium was open to the public and linking-up for the referees and artists.

In September 2006, young artists from France, Poland and Germany went on an intensive research journey into neighbouring states of the European Union (Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia) bringing them into contact with people involved in “European missions” as peacemakers, in humanitarian, ecological, economic projects and cultural organisations .

Both symposium and research journey formed the basis for critical, provocative, multimedia art work by the artists of the ‘Weimar Triangle’, which was shown in a travelling exhibition in Katowice, Marseille and Weimar in 2007.