It is with great joy that we inform you that the European Commission has decided to renew its confidence in our network, by supporting for the next five years "Small size, big citizens".
It is a great result for a network like ours which, although relatively young, has been able to gain credibility at an international level, both for the quality of the proposals brought forward and for the continuity of a common project. It is the acknowledgement of a pattern of dialogue and European integration promoted through art and culture, artistic research and lifelong learning, the creation of new networks and relationships, the inclusion of new partners and their specific capabilities. With "Small size, big citizens", in fact, the partners in the network become twelve, from twelve different European countries.
This acknowledgement allows us to continue to explore, create, research in the field of performing arts for early childhood. A five-year project allows us to think "big", giving us the time to work on the long term, to set up processes and see the results, to plant seeds and watch them grow.
From here we start, happy to see our work recognised and aware that this is not an arrival, but one of several intermediate stages of the path that we are drawing. A journey that we undertake not to achieve a precise goal, but to always find new ones.

"Small size, big citizens" co-organisers are:

Acción Educativa - Madrid - Spain
Annantalo Arts Center - Helsinki - Finland
Baboró International Festival - Galway - Ireland
Goml/Gledalisce Za Otroke In Mlade Ljubljana -  Ljubljana - Slovenia
Helios Theater - Hamm - Germany
Kolibri Theatre - Budapest - Hungary
La Baracca - Bologna - Italy
Polka Theatre - London - UK
Teatrul Ion Creangă - Bucharest - Romania
Théâtre de La Guimbarde - Charleroi - Belgium
Toihaus - Salzburg - Austria, Ville de Limoges - Limoges - France

Moreover, three micro-networks have been set up. This kind of co-operation between one co-organiser and one or more Associated Partners is functional to the creation of other "exchange stations", i.e. festivals.
The Spanish micro-network sees Acción Educativa co-operating together with Teatro Paraiso in the organisation of the Festival for the Early Years to be held in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Basque Country); in the British one, Polka Theatre will cooperate with Sticky Fingers (for the Newry Festival in Northern Ireland), Starcatchers (Edinburgh - Scotland) and Take off (Gateshead - North England); the French one is led by the Municipality of Limoges together with Théâtre O’Navio.