If you are a prize winner from your national history competition 2013/2014 you can apply for our EUSTORY History Camps (formerly Youth Academies), where you come face to face with varied interpretations of history.
“Hopefully I’m speaking here in front of many future history teachers,” Latvian President Andris Bērziņš concluded his speech during the award ceremony of the Latvian EUSTORY Competition in Riga on May, 24th. It was the second opportunity that President Bērziņš used to underline the importance of history and a European perspective on the past for his home country after his speech in connection with the reception for the EUSTORY Network during the Annual Network Meeting in Riga in 2013.
On 23 May, prize winners, teachers, jury members and funders gathered in the Old Student House of the University of Helsinki to celebrate the results of the 2013/14 history competition. The topic of the Finnish competition in 2013-2014 was "Two Stories". The prizes were given to students in both upper and lower secondary level.
„Look back, think forward“ was the motto of the HistoryCampus in Berlin. 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 from 7-11 May, 2014.
From 8 -11 May 2014 the organisers of national history competitions from twenty-two countries as well as external guests gathered in Berlin for the EUSTORY Annual Network Meeting in order to discuss about ways of “Remembering, teaching and commemorating European history in 2014”.
The international communication and collaboration platform "Young History Forum" went live! If you participated in EUSTORY activities or in activities by partners of the Koerber Foundation, then you are welcome to register to join the closed community
After the crisis ends, Ukraine will be a different country, says Orest Franchuk, a EUSTORY alumni who has been on the Maidan from the very first night of 21st November 2013.
„All important historical events had their beginning in Prague,“ started the Czech writer and actor Zdeněk Svěrák his opening speech, giving the Defenestration of Prague in 1618 as an example. Svěrák may have exaggerated the role of Prague as the cradle of historical events a bit, but one thing is true: This ceremony on 20 February in Prague was the kick-off event for EUSTORY’s award ceremony season 2014.
