About the Organisation
PANT Civic Initiative was set up in Ostrava in 2007. Its purpose is to educate and inform the general public in the areas of human rights and modern history. It aims mainly at educational activities in the fields of history, documentaries, increasing knowledge related to history and mapping Czech, Slovak, Central European and European historical contexts. The core of PANT is the project website moderni-dejiny.cz. Since 2011, it has been focusing on cooperating with educational institutions and schools in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. The PANT members are mainly teachers.
About the Competition
The participants should be age 15 to 20. They can undertake individual as well as group research. There is a limit of 5 pupils per group. The research paper has to be between 15 to 30 pages.
Story Collection: Czechia
The Silence Only She Could Hear: A Pioneer of Autism Research
Tracing one’s roots always brings surprises. This is the story of Růžena Nesnídalová, a pioneer in autism research – as far as the author has been able to piece together from her family’s tales.
Czeching In, 21 Years After: The Czechs’ View on the EU
As an EU country with a socialist past, Czech society remains politically divided. How do Czechs, especially Gen Z, feel about the European Union two decades after “Czeching In”?
Lari, Leva, Krones and Euros: Young Looks at Europe’s Currencies
What’s something we all worry about, whether it changes or not, rises or falls? You guessed it: currency. We asked young Europeans about their monetary system and the national symbols displayed.
Voices from the Vltava: Dialogues to Remember
“Dialogues to Remember” was the motto of the 2023 EUSTORY Summit. Under this premise, 11 aspiring journalists set out to discover which dialogues had shaped people’s lives in Prague.
“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.
“EUSTORY Influenced My Career”
Dr Zdeněk Hazdra, Director of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes in Prague, remembered being among the prize winners of the very first Czech History Competition in 2001/2002.he first Czech EUSTORY History Competition in 2000/2001. In 2017, he returned to the Czech National History Competition to honour the prize winners.