Strategy development, expert insight, exchange on current challenges and best practices: At the annual EUSTORY Network Meeting everything is about the competitions. With the regular, transnational exchange between the organisers of the national EUSTORY History Competitions, the network guarantees its constant further development – and prepares itself for the hardships of the future.

What part do EUSTORY Activities play in the commemoration culture of different countries? What real-world experiences do network members gain with their respective competitions? Where can cross-border synergies be developed, and what do current developments mean for the history competition yet to come? Moreover, national competition organisers also make use of the meetings to exchange information about new developments in school and extracurricular education. For example, they deliberate on challenges such as inclusion, digitalisation, or possible funding for civic history activities in Europe.

Since the host countries rotate, the meetings also offer intensive insights into the specifics of recollection and federal commemoration in different European places. On site, participants consider different approaches in dealing with difficult backgrounds such as the legacies of dictatorships, imperialism, or colonialism.

The meetings are organised and conducted by Körber-Stiftung in close contact with the respective host country. During the pandemic, the exchange took place in alternating digital formats.

“EUSTORY adds an international dimension to our individual competition projects. Taking part in the EUSTORY Network Meetings provides me with additional knowledge and inspiration for my work.”
Miguel Monteiro de Barros, EUSTORY Iberia, Portuguese Association of History Teachers

What our network meetings focused on

Read the key take aways!

  • Moldova Hosts EUSTORY Network Meeting 2024

    “History in a Polarised World” was the overarching theme of this year’s network meeting in Chișinău from 6–10 March, 2024. Hosted by the National Association of Young Historians of Moldova (ANTIM) competition organisers from more than 20 countries discussed challenges such as AI, propaganda, and polarisation.

  • “Ingenuity, Courage, Humanity”

    In his 2023 speech, Petro Kendzor, initiator of the Ukrainian History Competition, shares his thoughts on the war in Ukraine and its impact on the Ukrainian, Russian and European societies.

  • War and Memory in the Post-Soviet Space: Arming without Borders?

    How is the current Russian military assault on Ukraine accompanied by a "war of memory"? Tatiana Zhurzhenko, Ukrainian expert on the politics of history, deconstructs elements of Russian propaganda.

Travelling Europe: The EUSTORY Network Meetings

  • 2022

    In digital format “24 February 2022: A Historic Turning Point for Europe?”

  • 2021

    First digital Network Meeting, main topic “(Post)Colonialism”

  • 2020

    Málaga, Spain “Transitions in Europe and the Legacies of La Transición in Spain and Beyond”

  • 2019

    Tallinn, Estonia “Legacies of the 1989-91 Transformations in Europe”