Historical Archives of the European Union

📅Event coming up!
Join us with the Martens Centre on 9 March for a workshop revisiting the peace motivations of early European integration and exploring their relevance today.
📘 This discussion departs from a forthcoming edited volume by Alain Lamassoure.

Info & register: https://loom.ly/hFyFoaA

Monica Baldi, Vice President of the European Parliament Former Members Association, speaks to a highschool class at the Historical Archives.

John Howarth of the European Parliament Former Members Association speaks to a highschool class in a workshop at the Historical Archives.

Group photo of the Liceo Scientifico Niccolò Rodolico with former MEP John Howarth at the HIstorical Archives on 26 February 2026.

📚🇪🇺 Our Education Programme is in full swing!
From preschool to high school, students visit the archives for laboratories on European values, historical memory & EU citizenship and institutions.
Special thanks to former MEPs Monica Baldi & John Howarth for inspiring our students in February!

photo of file boxes ready for transfer and processing

📢 Important announcement!
The European Commission Archives will carry out a major processing operation on files from the sub-fonds of the European executive administrations concerning external relations.
Micro-fiche consultation of these files is possible in Florence.

ℹ️ https://loom.ly/JeRMu1Y

European University Institute conference room with early career researchers at a summer school

📣 Calling early stage researchers!
💡Apply to attend the Annual Graduate Conference on the history of European integration.
✅ Submit a proposal by 14 April!
ℹ️ https://loom.ly/Tf9N9GM
#research #Europeanhistory #EuropeanIntegration @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social

⏰ Event this Wednesday!
🔬 Join the authors of 'Ricercare il futuro – la storia del Centro comune di ricerca di Ispra' and discover how shared scientific infrastructures became an important element of European integration.
🗓 18 Feb
🕒 10-12:30
💻🏛 Online and in-person
👉 https://loom.ly/W3zCOS4

Photo of a previous IVF fellow in the HAEU reading room.

📢 Call for applications

IVF Research Grants 2026 at the Historical Archives of the EU are now open.
🗓 Deadline: 27 April 2026
🔗 https://loom.ly/egHlbls
👉 Spread the word!

#ResearchFunding #ArchivalResearch #EuropeanIntegration
#Visegrad4 #CzechRepublic #Hungary #Poland #Slovakia

Image of researchers in the HAEU reading room, with CFA deadline of 20 April 2026

📣 Research support for work on European integration history!
Apply for the Vibeke Sørensen Grant Programme 2026 at the Historical Archives of the EU.
💶 €1540 grant | 🎓 All career levels welcome
📅 Deadline: 20 April 2026
👉 https://loom.ly/j8cwhOQ

@eui-adgcentre.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social

Photo of the European Medicines Agency in Amsterdam, used with permission of the EMA.

📂 New archives online!
The @ema.europa.eu made its first archival transfer to the HAEU in 2025.
🗃️The records document its creation, governance & early work on medicines regulation, and are now available for online consultation.
ℹ️ https://loom.ly/p5eHrYc

⚛️70 years of science at the heart of Europe 🇪🇺
From Ispra-1 to today’s Joint Research Centre, 'Ricercare il futuro' tells the story of how a research site helped shape European integration.
📚 Join us at Salviati or on zoom
📅 18 February 10:00 - 12:30
✅ Register: https://loom.ly/W3zCOS4

Archivist trainee Nicolas Kernel displays the seal as used on a judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union

🕯️ What can a #seal reveal about an institution’s past?

From symbols to stories, seals offer a tangible link to Europe’s archival heritage. Discover how our trainee Nicolas Kernel's research gave rise to a fascinating online exhibit about these unique artefacts!

🔗 https://loom.ly/Pi2-Ado

Our depositor @esa.int mourns the loss of an ESA pioneer: Prof. Roger-Maurice Bonnet. Our condolences are with his family, friends, and the many colleagues and scientists he led and inspired in his scientific career at the Agency.

❓How can audiovisual archives contribute to media literacy?
Join this online International Council on Archives webinar to explore history education in a world of misinformation.
📆Monday, 26 January
🕛12:00 GMT+1 (Rome)
✅Register for the link: https://loom.ly/dqOGsnw
#InternationalDayofEducation

New research on European integration!
Join the @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social for its next Cover to Cover seminar, this month focusing on Grace Ballor's forthcoming book 'Enterprise and Integration: Big Business and the Making of the Single European Market'.
#EMU #Europeanhistory #EuropeanUnion

A collage illustrating activities of the Historical Archives of the European Union.

⏰ Only 10 days left!

🛰️ The Historical Archives of the European Union is hiring an Archivist for the ESA fonds in Florence.

🗃️ 3+ years archival experience? Join a dynamic, public-facing archive.

📅 Apply by 9 Jan 2026
🔗 https://loom.ly/PDXYgEA
#Hiring #Archivist #ESA #SpaceArchives #Archives

What do we know about the impact of social partners on EU social governance?
The ShaPE project has concluded, delivering insights into how social partners helped shape EU social policy — and how they could do so again.
📖 Read more: https://loom.ly/qzIUhmo
#SocialEurope #SocialDialogue #EUgovernance

🎉 EFTA is 65!
A new online exhibit traces its journey from post-war Europe to a global trade network 🌍
Curated by EFTA and the HAEU and featuring audiovisual archives preserved in Florence.
Explore it here 👇
🔗 https://loom.ly/WYuP8r8
#EFTA65 #Archives #EuropeanHistory #Trade

Europe’s Grand Rendez-vous—now at the HAEU.
📂 We have received 1273 files from Jacques Delors’ Cabinet I (1985–1989).
From the Single European Act to the single market, the records capture a defining chapter of EU history.
🔗 https://loom.ly/cMDdZdk

🇪🇺 📂✨ New at HAEU: ~3200 Council of the EU files (1958–1995) have been digitised and are now available for online consultation.
Collections cover Council meetings, working groups, and EC budgetary files.
🔗 https://loom.ly/3qQX14I

#EUArchives #CouncilOfTheEU #EuropeanHistory #OpenResearch #HAEU

📂⚖️ New at the HAEU: 319 digitised procedural files from cases referred to the CJEU in 1991.
🔍 Consultation allowed under special access conditions.
🔗 https://loom.ly/0c6pevs

eucourtofjustice.bsky.social #EUlaw #JudicialHistory #DigitalArchives #CourtOfJustice

🎉 2025 ECA Research Grants Awarded!

Congrats to Martina Minardi, researching EU defence financing & joint debt, and Dimitri Zurstrassen, studying EU industrial policy financing using ECA archives at the HAEU.
🔗 https://loom.ly/4z2_df0
@euauditors.bsky.social

A photo of the Salviati garden in winter, with announcement of holiday closure from 20 December to 4 January.

🎄 Holiday break is coming up!
🔴Don't forget the Historical Archives of the European Union will be closed for holiday break from 20 December - 4 January 2026, inclusive.
The reading room will reopen on 5 January.
🖥️Online resources may be consulted through the database: https://loom.ly/i186kyo

Screenshot of Andrea Becherucci from RAI interview

Alcide De Gasperi is recognised for his great contribution towards a peaceful, united Europe. We were pleased to describe his private archives, preserved in our deposits, for a service by Rai Parlamento on the Fondazione Alcide De Gasperi.
📹Watch the transmission in Italian: https://loom.ly/8CtiBB8

A collage illustrating activities of the Historical Archives of the European Union.

🛰️The HAEU is hiring an ESA Archivist in Florence.
🗃️If you have at least 3 years of archival experience, check out this position!
ℹ️https://loom.ly/PDXYgEA
Deadline: 9 Jan
@eurospacehistory.bsky.social @esa.int #ESAArchives

Photo: UNESCO / Dominique Roger, Manuscripts from the National Library, Florence, Italy, being washed and dried in the boiler room of Florence railway station after the November 1966 floods. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

📢Attention archives professionals!
Register now for the #SAGA workshop on disaster management!
📆Thursday 4/12 & Friday 5/12
📍Villa Salviati or online via zoom
🔗 https://loom.ly/esyvRY0

@mtu.ie @mtutelteam.bsky.social

Jacopo Cellini with his biography of Alcide De Gasperi

🌟New research!
Congrats to research fellow Jacopo Cellini on his new book "Alcide De Gasperi. La cultura di un politico cattolico".
Based on newly opened primary sources, it offers a fresh look at the ideas behind a statesman who shaped Italy and Europe.

📙Check it out! https://loom.ly/FzpBs1M

📜We've installed a small, temporary archival exhibit celebrating Václav Havel at the new Václav Havel Room in the EUI's Palazzo Buontalenti.
Check it out!
ℹ️https://loom.ly/hhoAvEA
@eui-stg.bsky.social #HavelLegacy #Archives #HumanRights

55 years ago, Pierre Werner set out a plan that brought us to the euro.
We’re marking the anniversary with “Pierre Werner (1913–2002) – A Life Dedicated to Luxembourg and Europe”.
Thanks to Europe Direct – University of Luxembourg for bringing this exhibit to life.
More info: https://loom.ly/eamT9N0

Dieter Schlenker, Viviane Reding, Agnès Brouet and Aude Foucoin at the HAEU.

An honour to welcome Viviane Reding, former European Commission Vice-President, to the Archives during her recent visit to the EUI.
Her commentary on selected archival documents reminded us how vital archives and oral history are for grasping Europe’s story.
Read more: https://loom.ly/0gFmaqs

Manuscripts from the National Library, Florence, Italy, being washed and dried in the boiler room of Florence railway station after the November 1966 floods. Photo: UNESCO / Dominique Roger. CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

🌿 Workshop: Disaster Management and Climate Change in Archives
📅 4–5 December 2025
🔗 Register: https://www.eui.eu/events?id=577996
Organised by the #SAGAproject, funded by Creative Europe

📷 Photo: UNESCO / Dominique Roger. CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

A young person at her work station at the Historical Archives of the European Union.

🎥 Know someone preparing for a career in audiovisual heritage?
Spread the word! The Historical Archives of the European Union is offering a paid traineeship in audiovisual archiving.

👉 Learn more & apply: https://loom.ly/Cifgt-g

#Traineeship #AudiovisualArchives #HAEU #EUI #CulturalHeritage