21 primary school classes from 11 comprehensive institutes in 8 Venetian territories have been admitted to the #GO2025FENICE competition for the European Capital of Culture 2025 Nova Gorica Gorizia. The project is led by the Municipality of Venice together with the ZPGŠ Association of Music Schools of the Slovenian Coast and the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The cross-border project is financed by the Interreg Italy-Slovenia programme, GO! 2025 Small Project Fund.

Here are all the participating schools. In Venice the Morosini Institute with the 4B Zambelli, Diaz 4A and 4B, the San Girolamo Institute with the 4 Diedo, the San Giuseppe Institute with the 4 and the Cavanis Institute with the 4A. At the Lido of Venice the 4C Gabelli school of the Franca Ongaro Institute is participating. In Murano the Ugo Foscolo Institute with the 4A Cerutti. On the mainland 13 classes. In Mestre the Giulio Cesare Institute with the 4A, 4B and 4C of Battisti, the Viale San Marco Institute with the 4A and 4B of Radice, the San Gioacchino Institute with the 4A and 4B. In Marghera Ca' Sabbioni the 4A of the San Giovanni Bosco school Istituto Comprensivo Baseggio which is also participating with the 4B of the Fratelli Bandiera di Malcontenta. In Zelarino the Parolari Institute with the 4B and in Favaro Campalto the Gramsci Institute with the 4A, 4B of the Pascoli and the 4 of the Don Milani school.

Between October and November, 383 Venetian fourth-grade children will move to the Teatro La Fenice to learn to sing the Ode to Joy, in both Italian and Slovenian, which expresses a message of peace and brotherhood among all people and which has been the official anthem of the European Union since 1985. In Sala Rossi, with the guidance of expert teachers from Fenice Education, the rhythmic and melodic structures of the final movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, composed in 1823 and conducted by Beethoven himself for the first time exactly 200 years ago, will be explored in depth. The composer believed that music was the best means to share the principles of freedom, unity and love for the human race.

At the end of the training workshops, each class will have the task of producing a video in which the children will sing the hymn to joy according to their own original creativity. This will be followed by the social vote that will be expressed through participatory voting on Facebook. Subsequently, a qualitative jury will identify the winning class of the competition that in May 2025 will perform with the Fenice orchestra at the Teatro Verdi in Gorizia for the European Capital of Culture. The same path will be carried out in Slovenia to select a school that will join the Fenice and the Venetian school together with the children of the Italian and Slovenian minorities.