EUSTORY is an informal network of non-governmental organisations carrying out historical research competitions for young people in Europe. The network was initiated by the German Foundation Körber-Stiftung. It connects more than 30 civic organisations from over 20 countries.
The independent national EUSTORY competitions encourage young people to look for traces of history in their immediate environment. Award winners are invited to join international EUSTORY Youth Activities that create spaces for encounters and facilitate dialogue on the shared European history and future.
With its activities, the EUSTORY Network promotes the significance of an independent and critical view on the past for a common European future. It also furthers a European perspective on local, regional and national history, shunning exclusion and promoting understanding.
The mandate of EUSTORY is to view European history from the grassroots and to recognise the vast diversity of experiences. Opposing the abuse of history as an ideological weapon, EUSTORY emphasises the view of history as a laboratory for international understanding in Europe. EUSTORY is therefore not only a meaningful initiative of historical grass-roots work in Europe, but also makes an important and pioneering contribution to European efforts toward peace and tolerance.
Webseite
https://koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/eustory/
Country
Albania, Armenia, Belarus (until 2021), Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia (until 2022), Slovak Republic, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine, Wales
Runtime
since 2001
Contact for more informations
eustory(at)koerber-stiftung.de
Project results
- See Stories of Impact from 20 years of EUSTORY
- View Tools and Work Sheets for Historical Project Work in four languages (English, German, French and Romanian)
- Check the EUSTORY History Campus: platform for young voices on history and identity in Europe and beyond
EUSTORY Youth Activities:
- eCommemoration Project: Silent Stories of 1945
- Online History Camp “Don’t Look Back in Anger! Coping With Painful Pasts"
- Digital programme “eCommomoration Campus Beyond the Crisis”
- Digital programme “#30PostSovietYears: Phantom Pasts or Everyday Present?”
- Retrospect of the EUSTORY Summit “Dialogues to Remember
[The description of the activity, individual projects and products is based on the content of the Initiative's website.]
