Eustory Summits

Experiencing European Diversity

Prize winners from all National EUSTORY History Competitions get the chance to participate in the EUSTORY Youth Activities where they come face to face with varied interpretations of history. The critical confrontation with controversial aspects of European history is the basis of these EUSTORY Encounters.

Dominant groups and minorities, winners and losers, victims and perpetrators - each tell a different history and each have the right to their own story.

Working with peers, these young Europeans learn to respect this diversity and to see themselves through the eyes of others. The result is openness, understanding and tolerance in relationship with others and foreigners. EUSTORY Encounters focus on topics such as "Re:Member Europe: The Fate of Europe in Past, Present and Future", "Making Peace with History - Processes of Making, Negotiating and Maintaining Peace in Europe" and "Winds of Change – Transitions in Europe".

Since the network was founded, the EUSTORY International Office organised 70 youth activities for prize winners on various topics in about 20 different countries.

Here you will find an overview of all EUSTORY Youth Activities (pdf file).

EUSTORY Summit 2023: Dialogues to Remember

After three years of only virtual encounters, 100 young history enthusiasts met in Prague to discuss the challenges of memory culture. In six different workshops they demonstrated the importance of dialogue – especially in times of uncertainty and upheaval.

EUSTORY Summit 2019: Transitions in Europe

The year 1989 is a symbol of the transitions in Europe. 30 years later, at the EUSTORY Next Generation Summit, 120 young people from 30 countries are going to explore how people experienced the transitions and what remains of the dream of a united Europe.

EUSTORY Summit 2018: Making Peace With History

Discussing history is rarely so fresh, lively and intense: At the end of the EUSTORY Next Generation Summit in Berlin, 120 young Europeans presented their views on war and peace in the past and present at the Alte Börse Marzahn.

EUSTORY Summit 2017: RE:MEMBER EUROPE

The first EUSTORY Next Generation Summit came to an end on 9 October 2017 in Berlin with standing ovations for the impressive work of the 100 young European participants.

HISTORY Camps

Tuscany 1944/2014

A group of young German and Italian students met in Castelnuovo Berardenga in Tuscany for eight days of intensive digging into a dark chapter of the local German-Italian history: The German massacre at the end of World War II.

The End of Empires: New Borders, New States, New Loyalties?

23 young Europeans met in Slovenia to discuss the consequences of the First World War for Europe.

Bridging the Gap of Civil War

24 EUSTORY participants got to explore and study World War I and the Finnish Civil War as a part of it.

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Alumni Programmes

Europe 1945-2020: Looking Back, Thinking Forward

From November 2019 to May 2020 23 young people from 17 countries reflected on the legacies of 1945. They developed the Instagram museum Silent Stories of 1945 online in a closed virtual classroom and offline in a week-long workshop in Warsaw.

War Children in Europe

From 6 - 12 August 2015, 20 young Europeans met at the History Camp in Berlin to exchange and deepen their national research they did from April to September 2015 about the fate of War Children in Europe.

Europe 14|14

On the occasion of the centenary of World War One, about 90 EUSTORY alumni were among the 400 young people from more than 40 countries in Europe and North Africa who attended the event.