Andrea (22), Switzerland
Photo: David Ausserhofer
"History is not black and white - it has a thousand colours and facets, and anyone who participates in EUSTORY has the unique opportunity to experience this."
Andrea (22), Switzerland
Newsletter No. 11 online now!
Online now:
Brochure: EUSTORY Youth Academies 2008
Tools for historical project work - now also in French!
The Swiss History Competition announced their third round under the topic “Borders”. Deadline for the contributions is the 25 April 2009.
Download:
Swiss Flyer
(PDF - 365 KB)
Welcome to EUSTORY
The History Network for Young Europeans
EUSTORY Youth Academy in Serbia
Photo: Tina Gotthardt
18 Prize winners from national history competitions from Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia will meet in Belgrade from 09 to 16 October. The students will have the opportunity to open the "Black Box Balkan": Stereotypes and prejudices towards and in a multicultural region".
Patron of EUSTORY becomes
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Martti Ahtisaari (Photo:
Picture-Alliance / dpa)
The Nobel Foundation has announced in Oslo that Martti Ahtisaari is awarded with this year´s Nobel Peace Prize "for his important efforts, on several continents and over more than three decades, to resolve international conflicts". Since 2004 the former Finnish president is patron of the EUSTORY Network. "Peace and freedom in Europe are today still put to the test by hate and violence. Very often, the causes are rooted in our history. If we Europeans want to establish a peaceful common future, we have to talk openly about our past. The EUSTORY network offers young Europeans the chance to take part in an honest dialog about history, to reflect on current problems and to think in terms of alternatives. Thus, it makes an important contribution to our common European efforts toward peace. Integrating Europe is a historic project", stated the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate when he committed himself as patron of the EUSTORY Network. The whole Network congratulates Martti Ahtisaari on this outstanding award.
Europe meets Engadine
Photo: Beno Baumberger
Eighteen students from Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia and Switzerland have discovered the Lower Engadine. All these teens had previously won history competitions in their home countries. The International Study Week in which they participated was organized by the team at "Historia," the Swiss history contest.
EUSTORY Youth Academy in Berlin
Photo: Tina Gotthardt
The first EUSTORY Academy of 2008 took place from 23-30 August in Berlin, Germany. Themed “Us and Them. Exclusion, discrimination and persecution in Europe, 70 years after the November Pogrom in 1938 (`Kristallnacht`)”, the academy dealt with the broad field of discrimination and exclusion.
Link Tip: cafebabel.com – The European Magazine
cafebabel.com is a multilingual European current affairs magazine. Its aim is to stimulate and develop European public opinion, offering every day an in-depth coverage of political, cultural and social trends from a European perspective. These contents are written and translated by a community of ‘babelians’ and edited by a team of professional journalists. Furthermore the website offers multilingual blogs and forums. At a grassroots level, the community is moderated by a network of local teams promoting the European perspective through debates, conferences and other physical initiatives.
