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The 13th European Remembrance Symposium & International Conference, held in Helsinki in June 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Organized by the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity and partners, the event explored the historical and contemporary significance of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Through panels, discussions, and site visits, participants reflected on the Spirit of Helsinki, its impact on Cold War diplomacy, human rights, and civic movements in Eastern Europe, and examined its relevance to today’s global challenges, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The symposium gathered historians, diplomats, educators, and cultural professionals to foster dialogue and international cooperation around memory, history, and peacebuilding.

Learn more about the 2025 event here.

The 13th European Remembrance Symposium & International Conference, held in Helsinki in June 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Organized by the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity and partners, the event explored the historical and contemporary significance of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Through panels, discussions, and site visits, participants reflected on the Spirit of Helsinki, its impact on Cold War diplomacy, human rights, and civic movements in Eastern Europe, and examined its relevance to today’s global challenges, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The symposium gathered historians, diplomats, educators, and cultural professionals to foster dialogue and international cooperation around memory, history, and peacebuilding.

Learn more about the 2025 event here.

The 13th European Remembrance Symposium & International Conference, held in Helsinki in June 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Organized by the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity and partners, the event explored the historical and contemporary significance of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Through panels, discussions, and site visits, participants reflected on the Spirit of Helsinki, its impact on Cold War diplomacy, human rights, and civic movements in Eastern Europe, and examined its relevance to today’s global challenges, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The symposium gathered historians, diplomats, educators, and cultural professionals to foster dialogue and international cooperation around memory, history, and peacebuilding.

Learn more about the 2025 event here.

The 13th European Remembrance Symposium & International Conference, held in Helsinki in June 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Organized by the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity and partners, the event explored the historical and contemporary significance of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Through panels, discussions, and site visits, participants reflected on the Spirit of Helsinki, its impact on Cold War diplomacy, human rights, and civic movements in Eastern Europe, and examined its relevance to today’s global challenges, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The symposium gathered historians, diplomats, educators, and cultural professionals to foster dialogue and international cooperation around memory, history, and peacebuilding.

Learn more about the 2025 event here.

The 13th European Remembrance Symposium & International Conference, held in Helsinki in June 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Organized by the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity and partners, the event explored the historical and contemporary significance of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Through panels, discussions, and site visits, participants reflected on the Spirit of Helsinki, its impact on Cold War diplomacy, human rights, and civic movements in Eastern Europe, and examined its relevance to today’s global challenges, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The symposium gathered historians, diplomats, educators, and cultural professionals to foster dialogue and international cooperation around memory, history, and peacebuilding.

Learn more about the 2025 event here.

The 13th European Remembrance Symposium & International Conference, held in Helsinki in June 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Organized by the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity and partners, the event explored the historical and contemporary significance of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Through panels, discussions, and site visits, participants reflected on the Spirit of Helsinki, its impact on Cold War diplomacy, human rights, and civic movements in Eastern Europe, and examined its relevance to today’s global challenges, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The symposium gathered historians, diplomats, educators, and cultural professionals to foster dialogue and international cooperation around memory, history, and peacebuilding.

Learn more about the 2025 event here.

The 13th European Remembrance Symposium & International Conference, held in Helsinki in June 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Organized by the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity and partners, the event explored the historical and contemporary significance of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Through panels, discussions, and site visits, participants reflected on the Spirit of Helsinki, its impact on Cold War diplomacy, human rights, and civic movements in Eastern Europe, and examined its relevance to today’s global challenges, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The symposium gathered historians, diplomats, educators, and cultural professionals to foster dialogue and international cooperation around memory, history, and peacebuilding.

Learn more about the 2025 event here.

The 13th European Remembrance Symposium & International Conference, held in Helsinki in June 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Organized by the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity and partners, the event explored the historical and contemporary significance of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Through panels, discussions, and site visits, participants reflected on the Spirit of Helsinki, its impact on Cold War diplomacy, human rights, and civic movements in Eastern Europe, and examined its relevance to today’s global challenges, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The symposium gathered historians, diplomats, educators, and cultural professionals to foster dialogue and international cooperation around memory, history, and peacebuilding.

Learn more about the 2025 event here.

The 13th European Remembrance Symposium & International Conference, held in Helsinki in June 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Organized by the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity and partners, the event explored the historical and contemporary significance of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Through panels, discussions, and site visits, participants reflected on the Spirit of Helsinki, its impact on Cold War diplomacy, human rights, and civic movements in Eastern Europe, and examined its relevance to today’s global challenges, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The symposium gathered historians, diplomats, educators, and cultural professionals to foster dialogue and international cooperation around memory, history, and peacebuilding.

Learn more about the 2025 event here.

The 13th European Remembrance Symposium & International Conference, held in Helsinki in June 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Organized by the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity and partners, the event explored the historical and contemporary significance of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Through panels, discussions, and site visits, participants reflected on the Spirit of Helsinki, its impact on Cold War diplomacy, human rights, and civic movements in Eastern Europe, and examined its relevance to today’s global challenges, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The symposium gathered historians, diplomats, educators, and cultural professionals to foster dialogue and international cooperation around memory, history, and peacebuilding.

Learn more about the 2025 event here.

The 13th European Remembrance Symposium & International Conference, held in Helsinki in June 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Organized by the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity and partners, the event explored the historical and contemporary significance of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Through panels, discussions, and site visits, participants reflected on the Spirit of Helsinki, its impact on Cold War diplomacy, human rights, and civic movements in Eastern Europe, and examined its relevance to today’s global challenges, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The symposium gathered historians, diplomats, educators, and cultural professionals to foster dialogue and international cooperation around memory, history, and peacebuilding.

Learn more about the 2025 event here.

The 13th European Remembrance Symposium & International Conference, held in Helsinki in June 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Organized by the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity and partners, the event explored the historical and contemporary significance of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Through panels, discussions, and site visits, participants reflected on the Spirit of Helsinki, its impact on Cold War diplomacy, human rights, and civic movements in Eastern Europe, and examined its relevance to today’s global challenges, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The symposium gathered historians, diplomats, educators, and cultural professionals to foster dialogue and international cooperation around memory, history, and peacebuilding.

Learn more about the 2025 event here.

The 13th European Remembrance Symposium & International Conference, held in Helsinki in June 2025, marked the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Final Act. Organized by the European Network of Remembrance and Solidarity and partners, the event explored the historical and contemporary significance of the 1975 Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).
Through panels, discussions, and site visits, participants reflected on the Spirit of Helsinki, its impact on Cold War diplomacy, human rights, and civic movements in Eastern Europe, and examined its relevance to today’s global challenges, including conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
The symposium gathered historians, diplomats, educators, and cultural professionals to foster dialogue and international cooperation around memory, history, and peacebuilding.

Learn more about the 2025 event here.

Video reportage of the 12th European Remembrance Symposium.
The event took place in Warsaw, Poland from 21 to the 24 May 2024.

What does freedom mean today and what did it mean throughout the historical period discussed above? How did both the struggle for freedom and its celebration become enshrined in the region’s cultural and historical memory? How has freedom been commemorated in museum narratives and how is it commemorated today?
These questions are among the key ones running through the 12th European Remembrance Symposium.

The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI

Welcome speeches of the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 21 May 2024.

The Symposium was opened by Hanna Wróblewska, Minister of Culture and National Heritage; Robert Kostro, Director of the Museum of Polish History in Warsaw and Rafał Rogulski, Director of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.

The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI

Debate on ”Freedom as a current challenge for public history and civic education” from the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 21 May 2024. How do contemporary conflicts shape our understanding of history? How can we navigate the complexities of freedom in public discourse? What new policy priorities can we implement to foster more informed civic education on the challenges of freedom in European and global societies?

Panellists:

Maria Luz Martínez Seijo, Congress of Deputies of Spain, Madrid

Georgiy Kasianov, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin

Barbara Walshe, Dialogue and Restorative Justice Faciliator, Expertise Support at the ENRS

Moderation: Rafał Rogulski, European Network Remembrance and Solidarity

The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI

Opening Panel “Grand narratives and conceptualisations of freedom” from the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 22 May 2024. How is freedom understood in national narratives of the past? How does it go beyond these frameworks and how are narratives of civil rights and liberties, minority rights, freedom of speech or freedom of religion told and conceptualised?

Panellists:

Simina Badica, House of European History, Brussels

Barbara Glück, Mauthausen Memorial

Robert Kostro, Polish History Museum, Warsaw

Audrey Whitty, National Library of Ireland, Dublin

Moderation: Dorottya Baczoni, House of Terror Museum, Budapest

The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI

Case Studies on “Symbols of regained/lost freedom” presented at the 12th European Remembrance Symposium on 22 May 2024. How is the memory of freedom commemorated in material public space? A showcase of projects by members of institutions, historians, memory researchers and cultural scientists.

Panellists:

Maria Axinte, Pitesti Prison Memorial Foundation, Pitesti

Anna Bernhardt, Kultura Paryska, Maisons-Laffitte

Vjeran Pavlaković, University of Rijeka

Ihor Poshyvailo, Maidan Museum, Kyiv

Florian Traussnig, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute, Graz

Aleksandra Kumala, FestivALT, Kraków

Lead by Magdalena Żelazowska, ENRS, Warsaw

The event was co-funded by Central European Initiative - CEI