EUSTORY Background Information
EUSTORY, the History Network for Young Europeans in brief:
Photo: Körber Foundation
EUSTORY is an international network of non-governmental organisations carrying out historical research competitions for young people in their countries. It was established in 2001, initiated by the Körber Foundation. With its office in Hamburg, Germany, EUSTORY currently connects civic organisations from Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and Wales.
An honorary Board of Patrons helps EUSTORY to successfully raise public awareness and support for its mission, aims and activities. The Managing Director carries out the decisions made at the annual meeting.
EUSTORY supports a European perspective on local, regional and national history, shunning exclusion and promoting understanding. The mandate of EUSTORY is to view European history from the grass roots and to recognize the vast diversity of experience. Opposing the abuse of history as an ideological weapon, EUSTORY emphasizes the view of history as a workshop for intercultural understanding. This view is laid down in the core document of the EUSTORY network, the EUSTORY charter.
The independent national EUSTORY competitions encourage young people to look for traces of history in their immediate environment. Award winners are invited to join the international EUSTORY youth seminars that create space for encounters and facilitate dialog on shared European history and future. Additionally, EUSTORY offers former participants of the youth seminars the possibility to join various Alumni Programs. Moreover, the EUSTORY network promotes the significance for a common European future through international conferences and workshops and offers food for thought about European history through its publications.
