Fifty prizewinners of national history competitions from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the Ukraine will take part in the EUSTORY Youth Academies in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Helsinki, Finland in the autumn.

In 2012-2013, BELvue, the centre for democracy and history organised the 6th EUSTORY history competition. The topic dealt with migration: 'The story of a suitcase'. On 26 June, all the winners were invited to the awards ceremony at the BELvue-museum in Brussels.

On 7 June, 2013 the award ceremony of Slovakia’s history competition took place in the UNESCO Information and Documentation Center in Bratislava. A total of 49 contributions written by 84 participants were submitted. The Slovak competition is organised by the Centre for Communication and Development(SCCD), a non-profit organisation which was founded in 2005.

The award ceremony of the Latvian history competition took place in Riga, in The House of Blackheads, the President's residence, on 25 May, 2013. There were 135 research works this year, submitted by 165 students of all districts of Latvia. It was the 12th round of the national history competition and the topic of this round was “The history of education in Latvia”.