apap (advancing performing arts project) has produced over 100 artistic programs and has created a European network to exchange artists and artistic projects, cultural workers and know-how in the last 10 years. It has successfully introduced programs to connect the international and the local aspects of contemporary arts and created new presentation forms and means of intermediation between the arts and audiences. now apap is introducing a new program:performing europe is a European program for the development of contemporary performing arts and its impact on European societies. It is interdisciplinary and comprises the fields of production, presentation and distribution of artistic works and focuses on attaining new audiences and researching new ways of mediation. Theatre, dance, performance, visual arts, design, media and film are elements in the development of new performing arts. The aim of the program is clearly to develop exemplary artistic projects of the highest quality that will have an impact on the contemporary art world and its appreciation. The network unites different organisations and experiences, developing joint curatorial competence, cultural mediation work and the exchange of artistic work, information, know-how and workers in the art sector. The performing europe program includes established and emerging artists and a board of influential and renowned international mentors to install an ongoing dialogue between three generations of artists from different work fields and different cultural backgrounds. In several laboratories artists, curators, experts and audiences meet to work on relevant questions. The network will open a permanent workspace in Berlin for artists from all over to work and meet. The „libero“ project of performing europe includes organisations and artists from outside the EU into the program. „Know-how transfer workshops“ for cultural workers will help to achieve a new quality in European collaboration.