2024-04-24 12:54:22
In the project “Visible Past” of the program “European Memory” (CERV-2023-Citizens-Rem) of the European Commission, one of the 34 projects approved out of 279 submitted, Artifactory will participate.
“The Visible Past” is a work of public history, based on the assumption that, through today’s dissemination of historical events that marked the 20th century, it is possible to make the past visible, to understand the mistakes and similarities with the present, to understand the current issues and recall the importance of the values of tolerance and mutual respect.
A total of five European bodies are involved in the “Visible Past”. With the coordination and scientific guidance of the Villa Greppi Consortium in Italy, the network includes the University of Coimbra – one of the oldest in Europe – and the Portuguese cooperative Contextos, the Austrian Sapere Aude and the Greek Amke Artifactory.
The collaboration, addressed to citizens as well as students and teachers, with regard to 2024 organizes the “Traces of History”, with the contribution of other bodies, initiatives for the public that focus on three historical moments, and their anniversary events, which have strongly marked the history of Mediterranean Europe:
• The fascist period in Italy (80th anniversary of liberation from Nazi fascism, April 25, 2025).
• The regime of colonels in Greece (50th anniversary of the fall of the regime, July 24, 2024),
• The dictatorial regime known as Estado Novo, established in Portugal by Salazar (50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, April 25, 2024).
2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal and the fall of the colonels of the regime in Greece. The Carnation Revolution took place on April 25, 1974, as in Italy, April 25 is the anniversary of the liberation from Nazi fascism, which took place on April 25, 1945. The project will therefore start from these anniversaries to explore the common past .