Projects of the children and youth representatives

The brochure on children’s rights, designed by primary school pupils in Chemnitz as part of a drawing competition, is now complete and will be presented on 21 June 2026 at 2 pm by the Children and Young People’s Commissioner, Dina Norberger, as part of the Children’s Rights on the Street campaign in front of the Karl Marx statue. The children’s rights featured in the booklet will be explored and discussed through an accessible activity for children. 

Following this, the publication will be distributed to local primary schools, after-school clubs and childcare centres, and made available in various public buildings across the city of Chemnitz, such as the Moritzhof, Tietz and the Town Hall. It is also available here as a download in PDF format.

The 28-page booklet contains not only the drawings on children’s rights but also detailed explanations and specific points of contact in Chemnitz.

At the start of the 2025/2026 school year, the Children and Young People’s Commissioner invited all children attending a primary school or after-school care centre in Chemnitz to take part in a city-wide drawing competition on the theme of children’s rights. The aim was to use the entries to produce a brochure in which the ten most important children’s rights are presented through pictures drawn by the children themselves.

By the closing date of 31 October 2025, a total of twelve schools and after-school care centres had responded to the call. In the drawing competition, the children explored their rights creatively and identified what matters most to them. This resulted in beautiful, exciting and even surprising works, which a jury assessed according to various criteria: recognisable children’s rights, execution, relevance to Chemnitz, and suitability for the booklet. The children were free to choose which rights they wished to focus on. The pupils in Chemnitz were also particularly concerned about the right to a clean environment, which is not generally counted amongst the ten most important children’s rights. It will therefore be included in the brochure as the eleventh children’s right.

Thanks to the sponsors GGG, Sparkasse Chemnitz and Volksbank Chemnitz eG, the top three schools received attractive prize money, which they can use to realise the children’s wishes and projects:

1st place: 300 euros for the “Am Stadtpark” primary school
2nd place: 200 euros for the Reichenbrand after-school care centre
3rd place: 100 euros for the “Hans Carl von Carlowitz” Primary School in Rabenstein

Children have rights, and these apply everywhere: at home, at school, at the after-school care centre, on the playground or out and about in town. However, many children do not know exactly what rights they have or how they can stand up for them. The drawing competition was designed to encourage discussion about children’s rights and to empower the little ones.
  

Since autumn 2025, large banners and posters with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been on display in many daycare centres, schools and socio-cultural centres in Chemnitz. Supported by the Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Gesellschaft e. V., the Children and Youth Commissioner has launched this special publicity campaign.

The highlight: all 17 Sustainable Development Goals are depicted on each banner and poster. Each individual goal has its own QR code, which can be easily scanned with a smartphone. Behind each QR code is an audio recording in which a child's voice explains the respective goal in an easily understandable and clear way. The project was initiated by Michaela Koschak, who recorded the audio recordings together with children from Dr Wilhelm-André-Gymnasium. The pupils have already been recognised for their commitment to the sustainability goals. They came 4th in the Chemnitz Environmental Award.

The banners and posters not only invite you to look at them, but also to join in: The educational institutions were asked to hang up the banners and posters together with the children and to engage more intensively with the 17 goals. Some of the sustainability goals overlap directly with children's rights.