European Network Remembrance and Solidarity

ENRS implements its own projects, as well as supports, in terms of content and financing, actions of institutions, non-governmental organizations and research centers, which concentrate on memory studies. ENRS’ activities include: organizing conferences, symposiums e.g. European Remembrance Symposium, seminars and academic workshops; organizing events such as exhibitions, film screenings and reviews; publishing of academic works, scientific publications, and translated editions of existing books; supporting academic research; promoting study of history in media.

The European Remembrance Symposium is an annual meeting organized by European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Its goal is to exchange experiences and establish methods and forms of cooperation between institutions from different countries. Representatives of European historical institutions are invited to discuss the challenges facing Europe's idea of culture of remembrance and promotion of 20th-century history, with particular focus on Dictatorship. The first symposium took place in Gdańsk in 2012. Subsequent editions were organized in Berlin (2013), Prague (2014), Vienna (2015), Budapest (2016), Brussels (2017), and Bucharest (2018).

The Genealogies of Memory programme was initiated by the ENRS in 2011,^[4] based on a concept developed by Dr Joanna Wawrzyniak and Dr Małgorzata Pakier. Its aim is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and Eastern European scholars by organizing annual international conferences and workshops.

'In Between?' is an interdisciplinary educational project which began in April 2016. The participants, aged 18-26, conduct oral history research in the European borderlands. By the year 2018, 18 border regions had been visited.^[5]

In 2018, the 'In Between?' project received a special mention of the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards 2018.^[6]

The Steering Committee is ENRS’s top decision-making body. Its members, ENRS coordinators, are appointed by member countries’ ministers of culture, or by their counterparts. Each member country is represented by one person. The Steering Committee makes decisions regarding ENRS’s strategy and projects.

Members:

• Prof. Jan Rydel, Poland (chairman of the Steering Committee)
• Réka Földváryné Kiss, Hungary
• Dr Andrea Kluknavská, Slovakia
• Prof. Matthias Weber, Germany
• Dr Florin Abraham, Romania

The Advisory Board draws its members from among representatives of the worlds of learning, culture, and politics in ENRS member countries and in countries that are not yet full members but are interested in participating. The board’s principal responsibilities are commenting on the overall directions of ENRS’s medium- and long-term development and representing the Network in its member countries and elsewhere.

Members:

• Markus Meckel, Germany (chairman of the Advisory Board)
• Ján Budaj, Slovakia
• Dr Stephan Eisel, Germany
• Prof. Josef Höchtl, Austria
• Prof. Gen. Mihail E. Ionescu, Romania
• Sandra Kalniete, Latvia
• Dr Zoltán Maruzsa, Hungary
• Robert Kostro, Poland
• Prof. Marcela Sălăgean, Romania
• Gentjana Sula, Albania
• Prof. László Szarka, Hungary
• Prof. Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Poland

The Academic Council is made up of historians and social scientists. Its principal tasks include suggesting areas of ENRS research and research activities, reviewing proposals for scholarly projects, representing ENRS at conferences, congresses and scholarly meetings and evaluating ENRS’s scholarly activities.

Members:

• Prof. Attila Pók, Hungary (chairman of the Academic Council)
• Prof. Peter Haslinger, Germany
• Prof. Constantin Hlihor, Romania
• Viliam Jablonický, Slovakia
• Prof. Csaba Gy. Kiss, Hungary
• Prof. Róbert Letz, Slovakia
• Prof. Andrzej Nowak, Poland
• Prof. Dariusz Stola, Poland
• Acad. Răzvan Theodorescu, Romania
• Prof. Stefan Troebst, Germany
• Dr Oldřich Tůma, Czech Republic

• ENRS home page
• National Centre for Culture home page – in Polish only
• http://www.europeanremembrance.enrs.eu