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    About Freedom Express

    Freedom Express is a socio-educational campaign launched on the 25th anniversary of 1989 - the “year of changes”.

    The aims of the Freedom Express campaign were to:

    ■ commemorate the 25th anniversary of the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe

    ■ strengthen knowledge among young people of the democratic changes that took place 25 years ago in Central Europe

    ■ provide a space for international cooperation between young and creative people

    ■ create essential open-source content which would help all interested in deepening their historical knowledge

    ■ show different historical paths and contexts, often called ‘roads to freedom’, which led to changes

    Honorary Committee

    Timothy Garton Ash
    Władysław Bartoszewski
    Ana Blandiana
    Erhard Busek
    Jerzy Buzek
    Ján Čarnogurský
    Iulius Filip
    László Tőkés
    Sándor Lezsák
    František Mikloško
    Jan Olszewski
    Petr Pithart
    Martin Pollack
    Hans-Gert Pöttering
    Karel Schwarzenberg
    Jiří Stránský
    Magda Vášáryová
    Lech Wałęsa

    Advisory Council

    Florin Abraham
    Mirosław Bałka
    Zoltán Bíró
    Ján Budaj
    Ryszard Bugajski
    Josef Höchtl
    Anna Kaminsky
    Łukasz Kamiński
    Basil Kerski
    Csaba G. Kiss
    Ondrej Krajňák
    Michal Lukeš
    Peter Oliver Loew
    Dragoș Petrescu
    Attila Pók
    Jan Rydel
    Stefan Troebst
    Oldřich Tůma
    Alexandr Vondra
    Taja Vovk van Gaal
    Matthias Weber

    Partners

    Organizer
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    Co-organizers
    logo of NCK National Center for Culture
    logo of Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung
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    Strategic partners
    logo of PL Ministry
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    logo of HU Ministry
    logo of MSZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland
    logo of Visegrad Fund
    logo of Fundacja Współpracy Polsko-Niemieckiej
    logo of Grupa PKP
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    Partners
    logo of UPN
    logo of Europeana 1989
    logo of CNSAS
    logo of ABTL Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security
    logo of Archiv Bezpecnostnich Slozek
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    logo of IICCMER Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile
    logo of Institute for Studies of the Recent Past
    logo of IRRD
    logo of muzeul national de istoria romaniei
    logo of rousse regional museum of history
    logo of Robert Havemann Gesellschaft
    logo of National Archives Hungary
    logo of BKGE
    logo of EU Screen
    logo of Forum 2000 Foundation
    logo of Knihovna Vaclav Havel Library
    logo of IPN
    logo of European Solidarity Centre
    logo of Łaźnia Centrum Sztuki
    logo of Instytut Sztuki Wyspa
    logo of Fundatia A Treia Europa
    Honorary Partners
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    Patronage
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