Moving Memories

Creative Drives for a Changing Europe

Enabling mutual learning
Adult educators from six European countries develop a learning platform about transformation periods in the history of its society. Let us learn from the past. Today.

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Handbook available

The courses of our learning platform are also available in a handbook. The general focus lays on transformations, upheavals and profound changes in the history of 6 countries. 

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Speaking about differences

Exchange on the emerging learning platform about transformations in the past in Europe, but also on the idea to share the different opinions on current conflicts and the future we want to see for our continent.

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Bringing History to Life

Workshop in Málaga in the beginning of April 2022: interactive history learning in a European horizon with regard to personal experiences, society dimensions and questions for today. Inspiring again.

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War and peace

Event in Berlin on 15th September 2022 to present the learning platform. Two guest speakers then discussed about the Thirty Years’ War 1618-1648 and peace today. In the Ukraine, in the world. Lessons learned? Which ones?

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HERstories ...

… in times of transformation. During its symposium on 20th October 2022, Dr. Kamila Witerska  presented her courses of the learning platform on Women in Poland in the 1990s. An exchange about memories that still move today.

Terrorism in Spain

Workshop in Málaga in the beginning of April 2022: interactive history learning in a European horizon with regard to personal experiences, society dimensions and questions for today. Inspiring again.

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Questions left

Population exchange: Greeks in Minor Asia were forced to settle in Greece, Turkish people in Greece had to move to Turkey. The national state as a political invention, nothing new, and the Treaty of Lausanne from 1923. Inspirations for today.

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Different memories

Event of the DAH theatre in Belgrade/Serbia on the role of theatre in preserving memory and thinking the future. An exchange about the wars in Yugoslavia in the 1990s and its long shadows until today, and others.

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How to make peace?

The event of the Helinä Rautavaraa Museum on 30/11/2023 was dedicated to a ‚hot‘ topic of our times: “How to bring peace to Ukraine – What can a single person do for peace?” Interactive methods from the project were applied.

For learners and teachers

A learning platform

Get inspired by a unique platform for history learning, created for you by scientists and adult educators from six European countries.

The platform provides support on two levels:

(a) educational information in language that is accessible to all,

(b) in depth information and educational tools and activities, for adult educators or those who want to deepen their knowledge.

 

Erasmus, Dutch humanist

Who was the namesake of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union? An “intellectual star” of his time and inspirator until today.

The myth of Europe

There is an unlovely love story about the orign of Europe. It is part of the Greek mythology. Find out more about the rape of Zeus and the woman “Europe”.

Quotations

Reflections on history

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I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for ‘history’. The closest word for it is memory.
David Milbrand
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A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
James Baldwin
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The best prophet of the future is the past.
Lord Byron

In short

 
What is it about? Overview of the two-year cooperation between partner organisations from six countries.
 

Erasmus+ for Adults

The Erasmus+ programme of the European Union enables adult educators as well as adult learners to make learning experiences abroad and to share ideas, experiences and knowledge. In addition, adult education organisations may develop innovative material together, share its didactical competencies and create European networks. For more info see the website of the National Agency in your country, https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/contact/national-agencies_en

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