A multiplayer game co-developed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, in which young people experience the beauty of classical music, the power of collaboration, and the magic of a symphony orchestra through play.

Ship of Hope - door Fabriek van Niek

A spectacular Art Festival where young people from all over the Netherlands build immense artworks together with renowned artists, creating an art community from scratch.

Foto door Set Vexy

Sing & Dance UP! is a nationwide initiative that brings children together through singing and dancing.

The ELJA Art Courts are creative meeting places where young people feel at home and actively engage with art. Across the country, four institutions have been selected, each receiving €100,000 over two years to support this purpose.

2025 – 2026 | Contribution: €75.000 

Museum Dr8888 connects Frisian primary school pupils, artists, and nature organisations. Together, they discover that their own living environment is a source of stories, art, and imagination.

Foto door Lotte Dale

2025 | Contribution: €43,860

Waag Futurelab organizes the “Future Matters Hackathon,” in which vocational (MBO) students explore the question: “How can digital media contribute to an empathetic future where young people feel ownership over their digital environment?”

2025–2028 | Contribution: €180,000

OSCAM (Open Space Contemporary Art Museum) is a museum for art, fashion, design, craftsmanship, and development in Amsterdam Southeast. Through OSCAM Education, OSCAM reaches over 700 children per year via after-school programs, school visits, and creative projects.

2025-2028 | Contribution: €150,000

Over the next three years, the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam will, within the Mijn Schiedam program, focus on programs for and by young people.

2025-2028 | Contribution: €225,000

The Learning Orchestra (Leerorkest) invests in the cultural infrastructure of Caribbean Netherlands by strengthening and professionalizing existing Learning Orchestras on the five islands and launching a new Learning Orchestra on Sint Maarten.

2025 | Contribution: €80,000

In 2025, Arcadia will present “Arcadia Young”, a cultural program aimed at all young people in Friesland, as part of the major 100-day cultural triennial Arcadia 2025.

2025-2027 | Contribution: €47,980

Stichting Bühnenbiest develops an interactive performance and workshop series for primary and secondary school students on Curaçao

2025-2026 | Contribution: €179,000

After a successful pilot in 2024, the Holland Festival will implement the new education program line HF Lab as a permanent part of the festival in 2025 and 2026.

2024-2026 | Contribution €240,000

With “Youth is the Truth”, Hiphophuis offers young people aged 5–18 the opportunity to develop artistically and personally, while becoming part of a community.

2024-2025 | Contribution: €65,387

With HF Lab, the Holland Festival is developing a strong educational program line as a permanent part of the festival, created for and by young people.

2024 | Contribution: €114,000

After a successful pilot in 2023, the project WETTER will take place for the second time in collaboration with Oeds Westerhof and Museum Dr8888, in the surroundings of the Frisian National Park De Alde Feanen.

2023-2026 | Contribution: €510,000

H’ART Museum has been offering a unique art and education program for children and young people aged between 7 and 16 from all over Amsterdam for many years. Through school visits, as well as a multi-year talent and academy program, children discover their creative talent.

2023-2024 | Contribution €55,000

The Leerorkest has been active in the Netherlands since 2005 and in the Caribbean part of the Netherlands since 2017. With the Leerorkest, nearly 5,000 children are reached annually in places where extra attention is sorely needed.

2026 | Contribution: €60,000 

Museum van de Geest is working with MIND Us on a national program that helps young people strengthen their mental resilience through art and creativity.

Foto door Jurgen van Loenhout

2024-2026 | Contribution €100,000

The joint Education Department of the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ and BIMHUIS develops programs that focus on experiencing the joy of music and experimenting with new sounds. They have created two distinctive program lines: Groove Beest and SoundLAB.

Foto door Siese Veenstra

2023-2025 | € 624,734

In the summer of 2023, the Groninger Museum is set to unveil an exciting initiative. An American Airstream will be transformed into a mini-museum, and will go, with artists and museum educators in toe, on a three-year journey across all 150 villages in Groningen province.

Foto door Michel Schnater

2023-2025 | € 375,000

ISH Dance Collective’s initiative ‘ISH Academy’ aims to help young people aged 6 to 18 with their self-development under the guidance of accomplished dancers within their respective genres. Following the principle of ‘each one, teach one’, this community fosters an environment where individual talents can thrive, and experimentation is encouraged. Whether on stage, behind the scenes, or in the audience, the young people follow their unique development path.

Beeld door Absent Matter

2023-2025 | € 450,000

The Amsterdam Museum is being renovated. It will reopen in mid-2026 with a groundbreaking and innovative program, in which children will play an important role. This includes the creation of a children’s museum. Over a span of three years, children from the Amsterdam metropolitan area will actively contribute to laying the foundations of this museum.

Foto door Hilde Harshagen

2023-2024 | € 151,165

Maas Theatre and Dance‘s art-vacation program provides an opportunity for children from diverse neighborhoods in Rotterdam to create art collectively. Together with other children who may at first seem different. And guided by professional artists, the program takes them on a journey through dance and visual art. The ultimate goal is a professional performance, in which children’s voices take center stage. Rotterdam will stage this art summer camp: Break, Make, Create.

Foto door Schrijfburo

2023 | €98,000

Children from Friesland are embarking on an expedition through the Frisian peatland with WETTER. This project was developed by Oeds Westerhof and National Park De Olde Faenen. Like the biodiversity, the cultural diversity in this region has been diminished. Now that this land is being returned to nature, children are breathing new life into the cultural diversity of the area with new imagery, sounds, and rituals.

Foto door Tycho Merijn

2023-2024 | Contribution € 60,000

Imagine a place you go after school. A place where you dance, where you learn to express yourself through movement. Where you learn in a completely different way than you do at school, sitting at your desk. Where you meet children who are not like you—yet you dance together. That is the place SALLY Dance Company Maastricht, with the support of the ELJA Foundation, aims to create.