Europe Direct at the University of Luxembourg in "Taking Stock of European Memory Policies 2021"
The Jean Monnet House Service of the European Parliament has organized the 4th edition of the annual conference Taking stock of European Memory Policies on Friday 10 December from 9.30 am to 1 pm.
Europe Direct University of Luxembourg was pleased to take part to this event.
The event has brought together representatives from the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council of Europe with the aim of discussing the state of play of European memory policies in Europe, and notably the main goals expected with the new European funding programme "Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values" (CERV) in supporting European remembrance and the Union values.
Co-organised by the Maison Jean Monnet, the House of European History and the European Observatory on Memory (EUROM), the meeting was open to all people interested in memory policies and remembrance actions projects.
The Instituto Spinelli also took part in the roundtable on the 80th anniversary of the Manifesto di Ventotene.
Programme
9:30 a.m. – Connection of the participants to Thola Virtual Platform
9:45 a.m. – Opening
Constanze Itzel, Head of Unit, House of European History, European Parliament | Jordi Guixé, Director, EUROM | Martí Grau, Head of Service and Curator, Jean Monnet House, European Parliament
10:00 a.m. – The new CERV program: supporting European remembrance and the Union values
Gilles Pelayo, Head of Unit, CERV programme, EACEA | Peter Fabian-Hajek, Call Coordinator on Remembrance, CERV programme, EACEA | Chair: Jordi Guixé, Director of the EUROM
11:00 a.m. – Networking session for all attendees on Thola platform
11:30 a.m. – Commemorating Europe: the 80th anniversary of the “Ventotene manifesto” and the 70th anniversary of the Treaty of Paris
Philippe Le Guen, Deputy Coordinator, Jean Monnet House, EP | Oriol López, EUROM | Mario Leone, Director, Istituto di Studi Federalisti Altiero Spinelli
12:00 p.m. – European memory initiatives and developments in 2021
Aurora Ailincai, Executive Director, Observatory on History Teaching in Europe, Council of Europe | Markus Prutsch, Senior Researcher and Administrator, European Parliament | Introduced by: Debora Righetti, Lecturer, Jean Monnet House, EP
12:45 p.m. – Conclusions by Martí Grau, Head of Service and Curator, Jean Monnet House, European Parliament
