Europe Direct Centre Chemnitz
Your local access to the European Union
The city of Chemnitz has been selected as one of six new locations for a Europe Direct Centre of the European Commission in Germany.
The office began its work on 1 January 2026 and will be the point of contact for all citizens on questions relating to the EU for an initial period of five years.
Offers
Information material on the EU
The Europe Direct Office provides free, easy-to-understand information material (also in class sets), answers your questions about the European Union and builds a direct bridge between Chemnitz and Brussels. The offer includes well-founded information on European topics as well as the opportunity to share your suggestions, questions or criticism on EU topics with us. If desired, these will be forwarded to the relevant EU institutions. In addition, our staff will provide you with initial information on European funding opportunities. You can contact the Europe Direct office with all your questions about EU policies, programmes and current priorities. You will be helped to better understand your rights in the EU and to actively participate in European debates.
Events and programmes
In Chemnitz and the region, we regularly organise a variety of events in different formats where you can find out more and engage in direct dialogue. Thematic events and dialogue formats are developed several times a year together with various partners. The first event dates will be published on this page shortly.
Networking
The Europe Direct Office maintains a lively network with European stakeholders in our region and consciously focusses on European issues from a Saxon perspective. Together with local partners - from politics, business, culture and civil society - a wide range of activities are organised and European developments are introduced into the regional context.
Funding information
The Europe Direct Centre Chemnitz is co-financed by the European Union, the Free State of Saxony and the City of Chemnitz.
Background Europe Direct
The aim of Europe Direct is to bring people together in encounter formats, build trust in the EU and make its relevance for everyday life - from education to climate - visible. The meeting formats are to be realised in Chemnitz primarily at the intervention areas that were created with the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025. In this way, Europe Direct is also contributing to the active revitalisation of the intervention sites and contributing to the legacy of the European Capital of Culture year. The challenge lies in communicating complex EU topics and transformation processes in an understandable way - and actively involving the population.
There are currently 48 such centres in Germany. With the new funding period 2026-20230, Berlin, Erfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Giessen and Vilstal have joined Chemnitz. There are now more than 400 Europe Directs throughout the EU. The first generation of the Europe Direct information network was launched and established in 2005. Since then, these centres have been extended to all member states of the European Union.