United Tunes

United Tunes was set up with the aim of giving young people the opportunity to become acquainted with different cultures, visions and countries in an accessible but gripping way. The main aim of United Tunes has therefore always been to promote intercultural understanding, to increase tolerance and to stimulate friendship and cooperation between young people regardless of their nationality or background. When the first edition of United Tunes was organized in 1992, Europe looked very different from what it did just three years earlier. The fall of the Berlin Wall made visible how great the cultural differences were within the German population. The first exchange aimed to acknowledge and mediate the differences between East and West by finding a connecting element. To bring these groups together, it was essential to make the exchange revolve around a phenomenon that can remain unpolluted in a highly political world. Something that stirs and moves people. That element was found in music. Music is an immediate means of evaluation. For our participants, music is an outlet for their inner world, giving them the freedom and space to express their daily experiences within our society. Therefore, music is used during our exchanges to discuss certain themes. We would like to further expand United Tunes within Europe. We (Poppodium Phoenix and M.J.V.) would like to work with several countries, who want to let young people discover the world with us, with music being central. United Tunes has already been able to work with Erasmus+ several times to realize our exchange. If you are also an organization that connects through music, uses music as a means to discuss themes and would like to enter into a long-term partnership and friendship with us, please us at: | We look forward to a wonderful long-term collaboration. Greetings, United Tunes Poppodium Phoenix (Netherlands) and M.J.V. (Germany)