Leisure activities and extracurricular youth education
Children's and youth leisure facilities and extracurricular youth education projects offer children and young people a space for experience and adventure to organise their own leisure activities. Independent youth welfare organisations offer varied and flexible programmes in these service areas in the city districts.
Leisure time
There are 24 children's and youth leisure centres in the city districts.
These facilities are open spaces that offer a varied and flexible programme of leisure activities for children and young people. They are spaces of experience and adventure for self-determined leisure activities.
Children and young people can help determine the programme, themes and projects themselves.
Extracurricular youth education
Children and young people can currently take part in 20 projects according to their interests.
The extracurricular youth education programme offers, for example
►environmental education programmes on current seasonal topics;
► projects in the fields of science, technology and ecology;
►artistic and creative programmes;
► Opportunities to learn an instrument, participation in the orchestra;
Theatre plays for different age groups;
Experiential education and outdoor sports activities (e.g. skating, slackline);
► Educational programmes on the basics of healthy eating;
► Media education;
and
►political, societal and social education projects.
The programmes are accessible to everyone without prerequisites - depending on their interests or abilities.
Offers
All offers are clearly organised by city district in the brochure "Chemnitz macht jung" (Chemnitz makes you young).