Report: Taking Stock of European Memory Policies Report: EUROM Meeting 2018 | Page 6

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.