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🎥 Summer with the Archives kicks off!
In this first video, Director Dieter Schlenker shares how we preserve EU memory and promote research.
There is more to come about the #HAEU's holdings, research projects, and outreach programmes.
Watch here: 🔗 https://loom.ly/MnqiH_o
#EUHistory #Archives

Photo of the reading room of the Historical Archives of the European Union.

📆The Historical Archives of the European Union and the European University Institute will be closed for summer break from 4-17 August, inclusive.
🗃️All on-site services will resume on 18 August.
⛱️🌲We wish you a relaxing and happy August!

The #SAGAproject, co-funded by Creative Europe, comprises 9 partners. The Foundation for Landscape Protection will help us identify risks and develop resilient strategies for the preservation of Europe's archival heritage.
Learn more :  https://loom.ly/vZeQTgI 

Archival documents from the European Parliament, on a table in the HAEU reading room.

🗃️The EPP Group in the European Parliament offers up to 3 grants for archival research on the history, role and impact of Christian Democracy in the process of European integration.
⏰Apply by 31 July
Read more: https://loom.ly/Iwh-Miw
@eppgroup.bsky.social

Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, captured by Rosetta. Image credit: ESA/Rosetta/Navcam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/19721134803/in/album-72157654544894963/

☄️Catch that shooting star!
📚 Apply for an ESA Grant at the Historical Archives of the EU
📆 Deadline: 31 July
More info: https://loom.ly/5gArtgA
#ESAArchives #grants #research #CFA @esa.int

Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, captured by Rosetta.
Image credit: ESA/Rosetta/Navcam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0

Shared futures and space research: David Skogerboe on European space cooperation Utrecht University doctoral researcher David Skogerboe is working on a history of the European Space Agencys meteorology and remotesensing satellite infrastru

🚀🌐📡 How is #ESA an example of European integration?
David Skogerboe's research examines how Europe arrived at world-class #space infrastructure through research and collaboration.
Read more! 🔗 https://loom.ly/wA_xX28

@esa.int #SpaceHistory #ESAArchives

The #SagaProject, co-funded by Creative Europe, is helping archives like the National Archives of Malta (NAM) adopt safer, greener practices. 🌍📦
🔎Learn how we're preparing for a changing future with NAM and other project partners: https://loom.ly/vZeQTgI

Selected documents from the István Béla Ferenc Kormoss deposited at the Historical Archives of the European Union.

Detail from the map 'Orbis Terrarum Europae', that graphically illustrates political, geographical and economic data of European countries, by IBF Kormoss

Detail of map with infographics, from 'Karten der Europaischen Gemeinschaft: Die Kernindustrie', a holding from the IBF Kormoss deposit at the HAEU.

📣 The private #archives of István Béla Ferenc Kormoss — renowned cartographer, academic, and Europeanist — are open for consultation at the HAEU.

🗺️ The unique collection includes Kormoss' own #maps, fascinating visual examples of key instruments for European integration.
https://loom.ly/qKebM3s

📣Spread the word!

📝 Applications are open for the 2025 European Court of Auditors Research Grant!

Two awards of €5000 may be awarded to early-career researchers to support primary research at the EU archives in Florence.

Apply by 6 Oct → www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

#EUhistory #HAEU #CFA

Check out this #CFP...
@eui-adgcentre.bsky.social and the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) are looking for fresh research perspectives on #Women and #Europe!

Call for applications: The ESA Post-graduate Research Grant 2025 The European Space Agency Research Grant supports early career scholars conducting primary research in the ESA fonds deposited at the Historical Archives of t

🗓 Deadline: 31 July 2025
💶 Grant: €5000 (2 awarded)
📍 Florence, Italy

More info 👉 www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

#ESA #HAEU #ArchivesResearch #SpacePolicy #AcademicFunding #HistoryOfScience #SocialSciences

🚨 1 month left to apply!

🚀 The Historical Archives is accepting applications for the @esa.int Post-graduate Research Grant 2025.

The programme is open to early career scholars working on ESA history, space policy, climate data, cooperation in science & more—using ESA's archival fonds at the HAEU.

Ten scholars awarded Vibeke Sørensen Grants for research on European integration The Historical Archives of the European Union has awarded Vibeke Srensen Grants to ten scholars for their projects concerning the history of European integrat

🔹 Simon Vanlichtervelde – Cross-border cooperation & EU regions 🌍
🔹 Andrew Woodhouse – Radical roots of EU environmental policy 🌿
💡 Their work brings new perspectives to European integration history—using #HAEU archives
👏 Congrats to all grantees!
📰 Read the full story:
👉 www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

🔹 Ethan Gray – Christian federalism & Giancarlo Zoli ✝️🇪🇺
🔹 Tibissaï Guevara-Braun – EP & enlargement diplomacy 🧩
🔹 Kenichi Mayer-Odrich – EU, UK & Japan's auto policy 🚗
🔹 Simo Ristolainen – Finland & 1990s EU enlargement

🎓 Meet the #VibekeSørensen2025 grantees:

🔹 Andrea Cannizzo – EU-US transatlantic relations & Günter Burghardt
🔹 Marta Colcerasa – PCI & EU politics (1984–1994)
🔹 Ilaria Di Benedetto – Italy-Germany ties to Maastricht
🔹 Iliriana Gjoni – Art, music & EU identity 🎶🎨

📣 The 2025 Vibeke Sørensen Grants have been awarded!
Their projects explore EU history through our rich archival holdings.
➡️ More below! 🧵✨

Ten scholars awarded Vibeke Sørensen Grants for research on European integration The Historical Archives of the European Union has awarded Vibeke Srensen Grants to ten scholars for their projects concerning the history of European integrat

🔹 Simon Vanlichtervelde – Cross-border cooperation & EU regions 🌍
🔹 Andrew Woodhouse – Radical roots of EU environmental policy 🌱🌿

👏 Congrats to all grantees!

📰 Read the full story:
👉 www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

🔹 Ethan Gray – Christian federalism & Giancarlo Zoli ✝️🇪🇺
🔹 Tibissaï Guevara-Braun – EP & enlargement diplomacy 🧩
🔹 Kenichi Mayer-Odrich – EU, UK & 🇯🇵 auto policy 🚗
🔹 Simo Ristolainen – Finland & 1990s EU enlargement 🇫🇮

🎓 Meet the #VibekeSørensen2025 grantees:

🔹 Andrea Cannizzo – 🇪🇺🇺🇸 transatlantic relations & Günter Burghardt
🔹 Marta Colcerasa – PCI & EU politics (1984–1994)
🔹 Ilaria Di Benedetto – 🇮🇹🇩🇪 Italy-Germany ties to Maastricht
🔹 Iliriana Gjoni – Art, music & EU identity 🎶🎨

Is Europe's Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) a neoliberal project? In this new article in @conteurohistory.bsky.social, I examine this (hotly) debated question.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ECHOES Consultation - PLEASE HELP shape the Cultural Heritage Cloud !

LAST WEEK to fill in and share this questionnaire! It will allow the @echoes-eu.bsky.social project to understand the needs for the Cultural Heritage Cloud. The consultation is open to EVERYONE working with #culturalheritage.
Find it here: www.archivesportaleurope.net/blog/echoes-...

European Council EU leaders are meeting in Brussels to discuss geoeconomic challenges and the ongoing developments in Ukraine and the Middle East. European defence and security, migration, preparedness and i...

Among other items on the agenda, today’s European Council meeting is discussing European security and defence 👉 loom.ly/Yp0YhTU

Are you researching the history of European defence cooperation?

Check the @eui-euarchives.bsky.social research guide on defence policy 👉 loom.ly/7P0d3LA

New Archival Deposit: Simon J. Nuttall Papers Now Available at the HAEU The inventory of the private archives of former EU functionary Simon J Nuttall, related to his academic career from 1995 to 2003, is now complete and availabl

📢 New archival deposit at the #HAEU:
The Simon J. Nuttall Papers (1995–2003) — now open for consultation in Florence.

A unique glimpse into the academic work of a former EU foreign policy expert and actor.

🔗 www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

#ArchivesEU #EuropeanHistory #SimonNuttall

🔎 Check out all the archival fonds related to Enrique Barón Crespo: archives.eui.eu/en/isaar/140

Press conference by the newly elected President of the European Parliament Enrique Barón Crespo, 25/07/1989. © Communautés Européennes 1989

🗃️ New resources!

1129 files from Enrique Barón Crespo’s presidency at the @europarl.europa.eu are now open to the public at the HAEU in Florence 🇪🇺

A look into EU history, diplomacy & institutional change (1989–1992).

📰 Read about the new deposit: www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

#Archives #EUHistory

Schengen: a Europe without borders? Europeana

Remember passport checks at every border? Neither do we 😎

Thanks to Schengen, summer trips across Europe are smooth sailing. Our archives helped bring that story to life in this new @europeana.bsky.social exhibit:
🔗 www.europeana.eu/en/exhibitio...

#Schengen #DigitalHistory #ArchivesMatter

Inauguration of the Antonio Cassese Collection at the EUI Library On 5 June 2025, the EUI Library held the inauguration of the Antonio Cassese Collection, donated to the Library by the Cassese family, and named the room in w

✨The @eui-eu.bsky.social has honoured Antonio Cassese by naming a room after him in its Library.
📚The Cassese room houses a book collection bequeathed to the Institute by the scholar.
📁A small exhibit of artefacts and papers from his archives deposited at the HAEU is on view.
ℹ️: loom.ly/zjQ0piw

International Visegrad Fund supports five archival research projects Five early career researchers were selected to receive support for primary research at the Historical Archives through the International Visegrad Fund Grant P

🎉 Five early career researchers have been selected as recipients of the 2025 International Visegrad Fund Grant! 🇪🇺✍️
📂Their projects explore topics in EU integration such as energy policy, migration, and multilingualism.
More on the winners and the IVF–EUI partnership:
🔗 www.eui.eu/news-hub?id=...

🗃️ New private archives at the HAEU!
Learn about the private archives of Bronisław Geremek, a leading figure in Polish #democracy, #solidarity and #accession to the #EU, recently deposited at the HAEU by his family.
📆 9 June
🕑 14:00 - 17:30
📍Sala Alcide De Gasperi, Villa Salviati
ℹ️ loom.ly/iquO7OY

Special edition marks 50 years of the ESA Convention Today, 30 May, we’re celebrating 50 years since the signing of the Convention for the creation of a single European Space Agency in May 1975. 

🥳 Congratulations to @esa.int , celebrating 50 years since the signing of its Convention!

#DYK that the historical archives of esa & its predecessor organisations are deposited at the HAEU? They illustrate a fascinating dimension of European integration

www.esa.int/About_Us/Cor...

#esaArchives