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What if…You Could Relive One Moment From Austrian History?

Featured, What If GIF

Small country, big history: Becoming independent in 1955, the fundament of today's Austria was laid. However, the alpine country's history dates back to the Stone Age. While strolling through the streets of Vienna, the E... (more)

“An Austrian Woman with a French Family is Drinking a Soviet Champagne…”

25 Years After, Turning points

#callVienna: Election Time in Austria – Why I Voted for Hofer or why Van der Bellen is the Lesser Evil

#callEurope, Interview, Turning points

What exactly is going on in Austria? What are young people thinking on the candidates and Austria’s future? We decided to activate our European network and #CallVienna to ask two young voters to explain their choices.  T... (more)

Gravestones of thousands of victims at the Srebrenica genocide memorial

Words Don’t Matter Anymore

20 Years After, Dealing with War, Reconsidering the Past, Srebrenica

Haris, an Austrian with Bosnian family-roots, shares his view on why remembering the past mistakes is crucial for ensuring a better future. However, observant the current conflicts and humanitarian crises and in spite of... (more)

Shifting borders – Changing Lives

Borderlife, Legacy of WWI, Nationalism, Turning points

2014 marks the Centenary of the First World War, a war that changed Europe as it was and had huge consequences for millions of people. Once great and extensive multinational empires slowly shrank in the course of history... (more)