The Remembrance cluster meeting

23rd June 2025

How does the European integration process affect the daily lives of European citizens and what are the current challenges?

This was one of the central themes of the debate in which the coordinators of the winning projects of the 2023-2024 call for proposals of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Value programme (CERV-REM) participated, together with the Department of Law of the University of Ferrara, invited to share their respective research experiences at the “Remembrance cluster meeting” held in Brussels on 12 June.

Organised by the European Commission (DG JUST) and the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA), the event featured two panel debates: the first on the theme “Landscape of remembrance in European countries” and the second on the results achieved by the REM projects.

In the six breakout rooms, the groups involved addressed the issues of democratic transition, historical memory, the Holocaust and war crimes, migration and European integration.

The Department of Law was present at the debate on European integration as coordinator of the “WE frame: collective views for equality” project, under the scientific guidance of Professor Orsetta Giolo and carried out in partnership with Traces&Dreams AB, Officine Europa APS and the Centre for Research, Documentation and Economic and Social Studies OdV C.D.S. The project highlights the importance of the connection between the academic world and associations for the promotion of the principle of equality and explores its contents from a gender perspective, in an intersectional and intergenerational key.

Participation in the event fostered connections between ideas and organisations from different European countries and helped lay the foundations for effective future collaborations.