Memory as a democratic practice

Europe's democratic transitions — from dictatorships, occupations and authoritarian regimes — are recent enough to be remembered and distant enough to be misrepresented. Their anniversaries are increasingly used as political material rather than as shared learning.

At the same time, disinformation and polarisation weaken the ability of citizens — especially younger ones — to situate current events within a longer democratic history.

REMEDY 2.0 combines local workshops, transnational comparative panels, digital storytelling and media-literacy work so that remembrance becomes an active civic exercise rather than a commemorative ritual.

The consortium brings together ten organisations from eight countries with different memory histories, so that each national experience is read alongside the others rather than in isolation.