Report: Taking Stock of European Memory Policies Report: EUROM Meeting 2018 | страница 11

genealogies of memory conference, and
education
projects
such
as
“InBetween?, the Sound in Silence, and
Hi-Story. Rogulski, further briefly
discussed ENRS’s Remembrance and
Solidarity: Studies in the 20 Century
European History publishing platform.
For Mémorial de la Shoah, its
director Bruno Boyer, discussed an
experimental
project
of
the
organization’s that based itself on the
principle of using the Holocaust as a
starting point, and an approach for
transnational dialogues for peace
education. He described the basic
principles of the project as gathering
countries dealing with regional
remembrance issues, building up
partnerships between public education
authorities, taking the holocaust as a
starting point, and through this
framework creating a sustainable
regional dialogue. The methodology of
this approach includes bringing together
local and international speakers and
including contemporary pedagogical
challenges, to, through the framework
of dealing with the Holocaust, touch on
local histories of mass atrocities,
without avoiding sensitive issues. Boyer
described how previous projects have
taken place in Riga (2016), Belgrade
(2016), Skopje (2017), and Thessaloniki
(2017), and further pointed to future
projects planned to take place in
Slovenia, Cyprus, and Ukraine.
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Subsequently, David Stoleru
discussed the final organization, The
Beit Project. He described how the Beit
Project focusses on the creation of a
‘mobile school’, a place of encounter in
urban space. The project in essence
brings together students from different
backgrounds, religions, cultures, etc.,
and through the creation of a nomadic
school, an urban place of encounter and
learning, enables them to explore the
city’s urban memories through different
perspectives and to interpret these
memories
through
links
to
contemporary realities. It especially
deals with enabling the students to
investigate large concepts such as ‘the
other’, through the framework of the
urban space. While on first sight,
visually, looking quite simple (a
makeshift house/school bench in an
urban space), the project actually deals
with quite complicated issues. Stoleru
detailed how the project has already
taken place in 12 cities, both within and
outside of Europe.
Reflections & Proposals
The representatives of the four
organizations briefly concluded by
looking forward and identifying certain
elements of concern, possibilities and
critiques, and presenting proposals
related to the Europe for Citizens’
programme. They also raised some
points for a larger European dimension
of remembrance and historical memory,
specifically in light of the recent
Multiannual
Financial
Framework
proposal of the period 2021-2027.