How can the confrontation with history foster a better understanding of the present and shape the future of Europe and its neighbors? At EUSTORY Summits, international history festivals, as well as in multiple digital projects, winners of national history competitions use history as a laboratory for international understanding.
They reflect on their perspectives regarding historical and current political questions in an unrestricted environment and develop innovative formats for a multi-faceted culture of commemoration.
European youth encounters in numbers, since 2001
Our concept
Our learning goal
With our annual Youth Encounters, we offer prize winners and alumni from the more than 20 national history competitions the opportunity to deal with questions of history policy, remembrance and identity by using various creative approaches.
The programme
With the support of experts from science, art, journalism, culture and politics, around 120 participants aged between 16 and 25 experience a multi-day history festival with a colourful programme. In workshops and intercultural dialogue formats, they develop cross-border, innovative forms of a critical and multi-perspective approach to history.
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Further informationOur partners
With changing workshop partners such as the House of European History in Brussels, the Franco-German Youth Office (DFJW), the Council for the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), the German Centre for the Loss of Cultural Property or the Spanish Real Maestranza de Caballería de Ronda (RMR), each EUSTORY Summit guarantees new expertise, changing focal points and diverse perspectives.
“This project really opened my mind. It made me look at life, politics, and social issues under a new light.”Leonardo, Summit-Participant from Italy
EUSTORY Youth Encounters throughout the years
Have a look, where our Youth Encounters haven taken place in the past.
“Peace in Action” – EUSTORY Experience 2025
Is there room for hope in times of conflicts, political crises, and deepening polarization? 50 young history enthusiasts from 18 countries explored creative ways of conflict transformation during the EUSTORY Experience.
“En:countering Divides” – EUSTORY Summit 2024
How to navigate through the divides of today’s world? Using diverse approaches in creative workshops, critical discussions and intercultural encounters, young history enthusiasts from 23 countries equipped themselves with tools to drive cross-border collaboration and change forward.
A Monument for Peace and Liberty
A Monument for Peace and Liberty Russia's war against Ukraine concerns us all! Young Europeans send this message with their augmented reality-memorial, which makes a stop in Hamburg to mark the anniversary of the Russian invasion.
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.
“Dialogues to Remember” – EUSTORY Summit 2023
What can conversations about the past teach us about the world we want to build? At the EUSTORY Summit 2023 “Dialogues to Remember”, over 100 young Europeans came together in Prague to explore memory, identity, and Europe’s shared stories.