Colors Cup Bambini

The digital space is not automatically a protected space.

There, children can encounter people, content and situations whose risks or intentions they cannot yet recognise or assess, given their age and experience.

That is why the question of what a child plays is not the only one that matters to us.
At least as important is the question of who they play, talk and communicate with.

For us, looking closely does not mean constant control, but attentive support.

Colors Cup Bambini explicitly does not want to point the finger at parents or other adults, nor to preach.

Digital media are part of everyday family life and repeatedly confront adults with new questions and challenges.

So the question we want to ask is not:
What are parents doing wrong?

Instead, we want to invite people to be curious about the digital world children live in.

Children may explain their digital world to us. This can start conversations and gives adults the chance to understand this world better.

Support, interest, trust and relationship matter more to us than control alone.

Children should know that they can confide in adults when something online frightens them, feels uncomfortable or simply does not feel right.

We do not just want to warn children about possible dangers.
We want to strengthen them.

Because with knowledge, children can recognise and assess situations better.

They can learn to perceive and respect their own boundaries and those of others. They can learn to say no, to leave a situation, to block or report someone and to get support.

For us this also includes a very concrete question:

There are already reputable, free and in some cases anonymous support services for children and young people. Colors Cup Bambini wants to make such services visible and understandable and to show children how and where they can get support.

Because it is not enough to tell a child to get help.
They also need to know where to find that help and how to reach it.

One point is especially important to us here:

Knowledge gives children ways to act. Adults remain responsible for protection, orientation and support.

For us, making children strong does not mean making them afraid of possible dangers.
It means trusting them with something and giving them skills.

• A child who gets to know their own boundaries is more likely to notice when someone tries to cross them.
• A child who knows that they are allowed to say no can exercise that right more consciously.
• A child who learns to trust their feelings is more likely to notice when a situation does not feel right.
• And a child who knows where to get help does not have to handle a difficult situation alone.

Children may try things out, ask questions and also make mistakes.

We want to create spaces where they experience that mistakes are part of learning and that solutions can be found together.

A child who experiences that they can make decisions, that their opinion is heard and that they can handle challenges develops a sense of self-efficacy.

These experiences can help to build resilience.

At Colors Cup Bambini, participation is not a single item on the programme.
It is our attitude.

Children should not simply consume an offer planned by adults or be kept busy.

They may discover, try things out, ask questions, make decisions, contribute their own ideas and help shape things.

This is how children experience it in practice:

At the same time they learn to perceive and respect other people's opinions, needs and boundaries.

Colors Cup Bambini is meant to be a space where different children belong as a matter of course.

Different abilities, disabilities, experiences, languages as well as social or financial circumstances should as far as possible create no barriers to taking part.

For us, inclusion is not only about access.
A child is not automatically involved just because they are allowed to be present.

They should have the chance to really join in, to be understood, to contribute their own abilities, to make decisions and to experience themselves as part of a community.

That is why we try to design our activities so that different ways in are possible and children can contribute their individual strengths.

And every child should have the chance to show it.

Colors Cup Bambini is not simply gaming for children.
Gaming can be a wonderful door opener.

We deliberately combine digital activities with analogue experiences.

Depending on the event, gaming, movement, creativity, dexterity, team tasks, children's rights, media literacy and shared challenges can be combined.

Children should try things out, talk to each other, move, find solutions together, learn from one another and have fun together.

For us, digital and analogue worlds are not a contradiction.
We bring them together.

Our attitude is guided by the children's rights of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Articles 12, 17, 19 and 31 are particularly closely connected to Colors Cup Bambini.

Children's rights are not directed against parents or other adults.

They give us a shared framework for how we can protect, accompany, strengthen and involve children.

Protection and self-determination are not opposites.
They belong together.

Children need adults who take responsibility and provide orientation.

At the same time they need adults who trust them with something, who listen to them and who allow them to have their own experiences.

For children this means:

Colors Cup Bambini is not exclusively part of our own Colors Cup events.

We can also be involved in family festivals, corporate events, neighbourhood festivals, club festivals, holiday programmes, events for children and young people, action days as well as social and cultural events.

We do not simply bring along a fixed programme.

Together with the respective organiser we develop an offer that fits the event, the target group and the available possibilities.

That can be a dedicated Colors Cup Bambini area.
Digital or analogue hands-on activities can be created.
Or we combine different elements and develop an individual offer for children and families from them.

Colors Cup Bambini can begin before an event even takes place.

Companies, municipalities, associations, social institutions and other organisers can also involve us in an advisory and conceptual role when planning a family festival, an event or a children's area.

Together we can look at how children can really be involved, which activities suit the respective age group and how digital and analogue elements can be meaningfully combined.

Together we can consider how inclusion and different needs are taken into account from the outset and how media literacy, prevention, children's rights, participation and resilience can playfully flow into an event.

One question is especially important to us here: