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remembrance in the recently launched EU Justice, Rights, and Values Fund. The role of the new fund is to promote policies in line with fundamental rights and European values, supporting the development of a European Area of Justice based on the rule of law and mutual trust. Pelayo stressed that it connects European remembrance with European democratic involvement and engagement, concepts that are similarly reflected in the Multiannual Financial Framework for the period 2021-2027. Pelayo concluded by presenting some numbers of the previous Multiannual Financial Framework, which have supported 150 projects in the strand of remembrance, involving over one thousand partners. Pavel Tychtl continued by pointing to three elements he saw as key to European remembrance: an element of continuity, a construction of meaning, and a moral purpose. Tychtl hereby mainly directed his attention to the personal importance of memory, and its local dimensions. He referenced the “In Between?” project by the European Remembrance and Solidarity’s (ENRS) as an example of projects dealing with this personal dimension. He further emphasized the necessity to teach history as responsible citizenship, and questioned if raising memory to a meta level should happen at a European, or on a local level. In his closing remarks, Jordi Guixé emphasized the importance of reinforcing the connection of remembrance and historical memory programmes with citizenship and human rights values. For him, this interrelated character is especially important to consider in light of the role and form remembrance and historical memory should take in the Multiannual Financial Framework for the period 2021-2027.