Abstract: SolRem’s central action is to design activities at community level to increase awareness on the history of resistance and solidarity against right-wing authoritarianism in five target countries: Portugal, Spain, Romania, Italy and Finland, on the one side, and on the other, to raise awareness on the permeation of concepts, narratives and images associated with right-wing “travel" across decades. The project works with remembrance narratives and toolkits as an instrument to kickstart a type of communitarian reflection on past resistance and agency there where these have been silenced, pocketed as something else or ignored. It increases awareness about the politics-collective memory dependency. Consequently, the project results develop on two strands:(1) a training approach, with 1. produces new research and outreach on the transnational entanglements of the collective memory and heritage of these national histories (often contested) shared by the target countries 2. training fo teachers via a handbook for talking about/teaching complex histories and their narratives, 3. generate a digital exhibition based on the entanglements of “themes” shared by the 5 target countries based on existing infrastructure 4. creates 5 separate types of awareness and informal dialogues deliverables about collective memory and history. This will rely on data collected in a (2) a dialogue approach, with 1. 5 “community workshops” per country to reflect on the influence of memory on contemporary antisemitism, anti-Roma, Islamophobia, Russophobia, misogynism and 5 internationally 2. 5 local permanent “memory forums” (local forums with relevant stakeholders) to discuss countering and responding to such narratives in relevant environment (eg. Educators, museums) and 5 internationally. We expect three major target groups: young people (KPI 500), professionals in collective memory (curators, educators, heritage specialists, writers etc.) (KPI 100), PVE/CVE stakeholders ( KPI 50).

Timetable: January 2023 - January 2025

Team: Hugo Barreira (coord.), Ana Sofia de Matos Ferreira; Bruno Tiago de Jesus Madeira; Cláudia Sofia Pinto Ribeiro; Eduardo Katz; Luís Alberto Marques Alves; Maria da Conceição Coelho de Meireles Pereira; Sara Marisa da Graça Dias do Carmo Trindade; Sílvia Adriana Barbosa Correia