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🥰 Just wrapped up an inspiring time at our EUSTORY Next Generation Summit 2024 - until next time!

😊 We are impressed by so many incredible young minds from across Europe who came together to share their ideas and address current challenges to shape a way to en:counter divides. THANK YOU!

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💫 The EUSTORY Next Generation Summit 2024 is in full swing! 💫

🙌 Since Wednesday, 120 young participants from over 20 countries fill the National Library of Riga .lv with energy, vivid discussions and ideas for how to overcome divides in Europe.

🎉 We're looking forward to our upcoming Summit-days together!

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Our venues:

💫 The EUSTORY Next Generation Summit 2024 is in full swing! 💫

🙌 Since Wednesday, 120 young participants from over 20 countries fill the National Library of Riga .lv with energy, vivid discussions and ideas for how to overcome divides in Europe.

🎉 We're looking forward to our upcoming Summit-days together!

📷 Körber-Stiftung

Our workshops are organised with:


lv







Our venues:

🥳 Today is the day - the EUSTORY Next Generation Summit starts: https://historycampus.org/project/eustory-summit-2024/!

💫 From 23 to 27 October, 120 participants from all over Europe are coming together in Riga! To talk about cultural, political, and historical divides - and to elaborate ways of overcoming them in different workshops.

😇 We are excited and looking forward to welcoming all participants today!

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🧐 Some events and dates do not only mark a pivotal change in history books, but also in all our lives. One is the year 1989: the year of the fall of the Iron Curtain. This part of history is personal: https://historycampus.org/2014/history-personal-interview-children-revolution-importance-1989/.

💭 We asked five people from Slovenia to Denmark who having one thing in common: they were born in 1989.. What do they think about their special year of birth?

✍️ Get to know the EUSTORY History Campus, where young authors from all over Europe tell personal stories related to history and identity.

✨ Dive into our blog to discover the best stories of 10 years from young perspectives: link in bio!

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🗨️❔ "Words Don't Matter Anymore": that's how our author Haris entitled his article about the Srebrenica Genocide: https://historycampus.org/2015/words-dont-matter-anymore/. But what must have happened to make words meaningless in the face of such an atrocious crime?

🗣️ From political speeches to everyday conversations, words are supposed to carry meaning. But when actions fail to follow, the power of words crumbles...

😓 The Srebrenica Genocide stands as a haunting reminder of what occurs when words don't matter anymore...

✍️ Find more hidden histories on the EUSTORY History Campus, where young authors from all over Europe tell personal stories related to history and identity.

✨ Dive into our blog to discover the best stories of 10 years from young perspectives -> link in bio!

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🤝 On 3rd October 1990, the German Treaty of Unification came into force. After 28 years of political and physical separation, Germany became one country again: https://historycampus.org/2024/football-flags-feeling-german/.

☝️ What does the youth think about "being German"? What is German identity? Is German patriotism allowed despite the heavy burden of a nationalistic past?

👀 Our EUSTORY History Campus authors Marlene and Yannis look deeper into the matter and ask: why do we see so many black-red-gold flags at football events, but not on German Unity Day?

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👗 Have you ever wondered what the dress your grandmother wears on the photos has gone through? María looked closer into her grandmother's wardrobe: https://historycampus.org/2023/stitching-tradition-spanish-history-through-my-grandmothers-dress/.

⌛ Clothes are silent witnesses of the past. The way people dress reveals a lot about political systems and societies. So does the purple dress of María's grandmother which went through the decades of transition from Spanish Francoism to democracy.

📣 Do you have pieces in your family's wardrobes which tell history?

✍️ Share it with us - or get inspired on the EUSTORY History Campus, where young authors from all over Europe tell personal stories related to history and identity.

✨ Dive into our blog to discover the best stories of 10 years from young perspectives!

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🌉 More than a bridge in the middle of the Sound: Everyday, more than 70,000 people cross the Øresund Bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark. But it was only in 2000, when the bridge was completed, that the border between the two countries became blurred. Find out how it changed lives on both sides: https://historycampus.org/2023/love-across-the-sound/!

😇 While Swedes and Danes had been separated by the sea for centuries, one can now travel between the two countries in 20 minutes.

✍️ Find bridges on the EUSTORY History Campus, where young authors from all over Europe tell personal stories related to history and identity

👻 Explore a different kind of ghost story: https://historycampus.org/2024/a-dictator-under-the-bed-portugal-spain-and-the-ghost-of-autocrats/.
Find out about the lingering influence of Spain and Portugal’s dictatorships on family histories and democracy today. Dive into Pedro’s journey and challenge the narratives we inherit!

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⏲️ What happens when a generation is pulled in different directions - influenced by a passion for football, the complexity of the Kosovo conflict and... a surge of conspiracy theories? Petar asked himself that question: https://historycampus.org/2024/alien-conspiracies-football-and-kosovo-serbias-youth-caught-in-between/!

🤔 Serbia's Youth is living this reality, caught inbetween the serious and the surreal. What's fueling this shift towards a conservative mindset, also among the youth?

☝️ What happened to his peers to go back to nationalist tendencies?

🔮 Do you observe similar tendencies in your home country?

✍️ Share it with us - or get inspired on the EUSTORY History Campus!

✨ Dive into our blog to discover the best stories of 10 years from young perspectives -> link in bio!

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🤔 (Great-)Grandpa was not a N**i, he was just a soldier in the Wehrmacht - thought Kelly from Germany, but... https://historycampus.org/2021/the-green-cigar-box-or-how-to-deal-with-your-familys-nazi-past/.

🔎 Thanks to an old cigar box filled with family photos, she found out the truth: Her great-grandfather hadn't been as innocent as everyone had said...

🫣 Have you ever come across untold (hi-)stories in your family?

✍️ Share it with us - or get inspired on the EUSTORY History Campus, where young authors from all over Europe tell personal stories related to history and identity.

✨ Dive into our blog to discover the best stories of 10 years from young perspectives!

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🗨️ When in Ireland, you hear English - but also Gaelige! What's this? -> https://historycampus.org/2020/irish-language-deep-rooted-or-force-fed/

🙌 For our author Neasa it's obvious: Gaeilge is part of the Irish cultural identity! But the language is rusty and spoken by less than 4% of the Irish people on a daily basis.

💫 Am bu toil leat beagan fhaclan ionnsachadh? (Means: Will it survive or disappear?)

✍️ On the EUSTORY History Campus, young authors from all over Europe share personal stories related to history and identity.

✨ Dive into our blog to discover the best stories of 10 years from young perspectives!

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😆 P.S. Can you guess the meaning of "Conas atá tú?"

🛂 Do you care what your passport says?​ Maria talks about her life without a national identity: https://historycampus.org/2018/my-life-without-a-national-identity/.

☝️ Because many do care about their passports, as statistics and election results in Europe show. But while nationalisms are on the rise, there are young Europeans struggling with their national identity. ​

🤔 How about you: Which role does your nationality play for your identity? ​

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✍️ On the EUSTORY History Campus, young authors from all over Europe share their views on current politics and their stories related to history and identity.​

✨ Dive into our blog and explore the young side of Europe! -> Link in bio!

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❗Open Call for Civic Innovation Projects ❗

🧐 The Civics Innovation Hub is looking for a young NGO in civic education in search of financial support for its project! The project ideas can range from workshops, cultural interventions, eyewitness talks to exhibitions and scientific studies.

💫 Take your chance and apply before September 30th this year! A price money up to 12.000€ awaits!

👉 Follow for more details: CIF 2024 - 2025 (guestoo.de)!

⚖️ Working, voting, driving – legal rights have been denied to women for centuries. And still, feminist struggles for equality keep being a process such as being the first worman driving a car: https://historycampus.org/2017/changemakers-ernestina-macchia-prola/.
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✊ How to break patriarchy? By driving a car as world’s first woman in 1907, like Ernestia Luisa Macchia Prola did. But there are many more achievements of girls and women in male dominated societies - what’s yours?​
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✍️ On the EUSTORY History Campus, young authors from all over Europe share their personal changemakers, but also their views on current politics and their stories related to history and identity. ​
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✨ Dive into our blog to discover the best stories of 10 years from young perspectives!
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📍 What do Dua Lipa and Mother Teresa have in common? Their Albanian roots!: https://historycampus.org/10-years-eustory-history-campus/!
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🦅🏙️ But the small country on the Adriatic coast has more to offer than famous compatriots: Explore the “land of the eagles” and its vibrant capital Tirana. Our author Gregor has the best insider tips for you, ranging from spots with crazy traffic signs and buildings with a fascinating past to cultural events where to meet young Albanians.​
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🎉 Fun fact: Tirana has been Europe’s Youth Capital in 2022. Reason enough to discover the young vibe of the city yourself, don’t you think?​
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✍️ On the EUSTORY History Campus, young authors from all over Europe share their travel tips, but also other personal stories related to history and identity. ​
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✨ Dive into our blog to discover the best stories of 10 years from young perspectives!
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👶 It’s a blog: https://historycampus.org/10-years-eustory-history-campus/!

🥳 10 years ago, the first article on the EUSTORY History Campus went online – our blog-baby was born.

📝 And has grown ever since: Led by an annually changing editorial team of 8-10 young Europeans, the blog aims at making critical, young voices and very personal approaches to issues related to Europe's past & present heard.

🤩 In the next weeks, we will share 10 blogposts from 10 years – get ready for unexpected perspectives, unknown facts and intimate insights!

Ready to rethink history: https://historycampus.org/?p=43215&preview=true&preview_id=43215? 🕊️
Dive into the dividing debate surrounding Sofia's Monument to the Soviet Army – a story of protests, art and dismantling with insights from our Bulgarian authors Liliana and Darina 🗣️✨ Körber-Stiftung

⌨️ Everyone's talking about ChatGPT & Co, but its impact on education is more or less a mystery. How to deal with AI writing seemingly perfect texts? And what if students let AI write their homework? But how to include AI in research in a transparent way: https://eustory.org/headlines-detail-norway/norway-s-test-how-to-deal-with-ai.

💬 Our organiser of the Norwegian History Competition, Karsten Korbøl, took on this uprising challenge. He opted for something a bit different and decided against an AI policy. There were no rules for the participants how to use AI!

🔎 Did Korbøl's approach work out in the end?

👉 Find out in our latest news article on our EUSTORY Website. Link in Bio.

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🕊️ Today, we remember the victims of all totalitarian regimes in Europe.

🧐 23 August is the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Stalinism and N**ism. It marks the signing of the Molotow-Ribbentrop Pact on 23 August 1939. This agreement between the Soviet Union and N**i Germany divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence - and paved the way for WW II.

😧 For many people this meant suffering under the Fascists as well as the Communists. Both regimes committed severe atrocities against the civil population and their dissidents – the number of victims is estimated to be in the multiple millions.

👉 One of those who survived both oppressive regimes: Lev Alexandrovic Netto. He was imprisoned in a German camp and later in a Soviet Gulag. Join our two History Campus authors, Camilla and Jorge, as they delve into this dark history from the personal perspective: https://historycampus.org/2015/the-personal-side-of-history-meeting-with-lev-alexandrovic-netto/.

📷 Tina Gotthardt

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🧱 63 years ago, the construction of the Berlin Wall started. Families and friends were seperated into a communist-socialist east and a democratic-capitalist west for over 28 years.

🎙️ What does this mean for German society? And what does "German" even mean? Find all the answers in our History & Politics-Podcast: https://koerber-stiftung.de/mediathek/the-new-germany-s03e05-social-transformation-what-is-german/!

🚦Even though the Wall has fallen in 1989, a non-physical border keeps existing: Until today, around 60% of the population still see more divison than unity between Germany's East and West. Differences in socio-economic aspects, but also in political representation are still visible .

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💃 Wanna dance? https://historycampus.org/2024/viennese-ball/

🎩 The tradition of Viennese balls dates back to the Congress of Vienna in 1814. Nowadays, they are an occasion for students, high-ranked politicians – but also for protesters to come together…

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😓 Since 867 days, life for young people in Ukraine has not been the same. The Russian war deprives the young generation of their future. The bombing of a Ukrainian children's hospital is the latest proof of these cruelties and still leaves us stunned.

🖌️ In student's drawings, recently collected by colleagues of the Ukrainian EUSTORY history competition, the youth's fears, but also their never ending hope become visible: https://koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/eustory/war-and-dreams-childrens-drawings-from-ukraine/

👀 It impressively shows what war looks like through the eyes of children. This has resulted in the exhibition entitled "War & Dreams" which can now be accessed via the link in bio.

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