This Autumn, we wanted to talk! About history and its legacies, about identities, about our worries related to a gruelling war in Europe, but also about our visions for a peaceful future.
Memory Suitcase
A Memory Suitcase is something that every one of us has: a real physical suitcase, an old shoe box or in our minds. It contains objects, images and other items we collect in the course of our life and they become a symbol of our very personal history. What is in your Memory Suitcase?
War in Ukraine
For young Ukrainians, war has become a constant companion long before 2022…
Graduating High School – in Times of War
Even in peaceful times, graduating high school and starting a new chapter in life can be a stressful experience. But how does it feel to graduate when your country is at war? This is what our author M...
Life and Hope in the Age of Crisis – Experiences of 4 Young Ukrainians
The recent past in the Ukraine was marked by several crises, interrupted by short periods of well-being. Taras Oleksyn p...
A New Meaning to an Old Book
I was twelve years old. And I clearly remember the MI-24 combat attack helicopter flying over our garden, which for me s...
Travelling Nowhere
Olexandr grew up in Sverdlovsk, a small mining town close to the Russian border. When war reached his hometown on June 2...
Where Were You When… the War in Ukraine Began in 2014?
The conflict between Ukraine and Russia is back on the international agenda.On a political level, we can trace all the s...
Behind The Scenes
Who and what’s behind the EUSTORY History Campus? Get to know the editorial team and their activities!
Climate Change
Young Voices from South- and Eastern Europe on Climate Strikes in their Home Countries.
Identity
How does the past affect us and our perception of the present? A glance at the power of history.
Love Across the Sound
In July 2000, a bridge of 8km length between two countries was opened. After centuries of separation by sea, the Øresund Bridge made it possible to drive between the two Nordic countries of Denmark an...
#LivingBelgium: A Country With Multiple Personalities
How come Belgium spent nearly two years without a government? Does a Belgian identity really exist? Is a life without Fr...
Clash of Cultures: A German Girl in the American Midwest
Different views on religion can harbour potential for conflict. Our author Marlene from Germany declares herself an athe...
The Green Cigar Box or: How to Deal With Your Family’s Nazi Past
An empty cigar box containing the burden of a heavy-weighing family history: When German-Australian student Kelly found ...
Making Friends with Music: In Search of Traditional Tunes
A carrier of family memories, a European meeting point and a gate to new friendships: For Rusudan from Georgia, the pian...
Contested Monuments
How to cope with outdated monuments from the past? Young perspectives on controversies around memorials in Europe.
#30PostSovietYears
A collapse with consequences: In 1991, the Soviet Union officially dissolved. Perspectives on a turning point and its legacies.
Populism
Radicalisation, Populism, Nationalism: Are we drifting apart?
From Peace to Populism: How Serbia Became an Outlier
Serbia at the crossroads: Uncertain times are fertile ground for autocrats and populism. This is what Petar and his peer...
Polish Populism Plague
The Polish law students Witold Janas and Marek Kaczmarczyk sum up what happened with the Polish judi...
My Life Without A National Identity
Maria from Sweden wonders whether all this hostility in the debates about how the respective nationa...
A Memory You Can Wear
Jonas from Denmark ponderes the question which item carries the most meaning and memories of his own...
Fake or Real? The Media in the Era of ›Post Truth‹
Participants of the Workshop "Fake or Real?" explore media in the era of ›post truth‹ and trained to...
