Alumni Portrait

Orest Franchuk | Photo: private

Are you curious to find out what became of our EUSTORY alumni? We will portray one of them on a regular basis.

Name: Orest Franchuk
Age: 19
Hometown: Kyiv
Country: Ukraine
EUSTORY experiences: Eustory Berlin Academy 2010, “25 Years After Chernobyl” 2011.

Orest is a law student. He has always been interested in the legal and political underpinning of the society. “If you’re not heartless at the end of it, you can really make a positive difference” he proclaims.

Orest was interviewed by Jasmin from the Slovak Republic. Read the full interview.

EUSTORY Youth Academies 2013

If you are an award winner of your national history competition, you can now apply for this year's youth academies in Finland and Slovenia. To download the brochure, click here, to apply, click here

Italian History Competition 2012/2013

Italian competition brochure 2012/2013

The topic of the Italian history competition 2012/2013 is "Exchange and Conflict Between the Peoples after the Second World War. " Deadline for entries is 30 March 2013. To find out more, visit the competition website or download the competition brochure.

New Competition Round in Poland 2012/2013

The topic is "Poles and their neighbours after World War II: against each other, side by side, together". Please visit their website for more information.

New Competition Round in Slovakia 2012/2013

The topic is "The Role of Women and Men in Slovakia during the 20th Century". For more information, please visit the competition website.

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Slovakian Award Ceremony | 07 June 2013

Slovakian award winners with their tutors, and the organisers of the Slovakian competition | Photo: Erika Mácsayová
Slovakian Award Winners | Photo: Erika Mácsayová

On 7 June, 2013 the award ceremony of Slovakia’s history competition took place in the UNESCO Information and Documentation Center in Bratislava. A total of 49 contributions written by 84 participants were submitted. The Slovakian competition is organised by the Centre for Communication and Development(SCCD), a non-profit organisation which was founded in 2005.

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Latvian Award Ceremony | 25 May 2013

Latvian president A.Bērziņš with the first place winners | Photo: Toms Kalniņš
Latvian award winners | Photo: Toms Kalniņš

The award ceremony of the Latvian history competition took place in Riga, in The House of Blackheads, the State presidents’ residence, on 25 May, 2013. There were 135 research works this year, submitted by 165 students of all districts of Latvia. It was the 12th round of the national history competition and the topic of this round was “The history of education in Latvia”.

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Swedish Award Ceremony | 24 May 2013

Swedish Award Winners | Photo: Zenita Johannson
Swedish Award Winners | Photo: Zenita Johannson

The award ceremony of the Swedish History Competition was held in the University of Kristianstad on 24th of May, 2013. The topic of this year’s competition was (E) Migration: Immigration and Emigration in a local perspective. In attendance were the prizewinners, their tutors and parents.

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Finnish Award Ceremony | 24 May 2013

Finnish award winners | Photo: Tina Gotthardt

On 24 May 2013, the fifth round of the Finnish history competition officially ended with an award ceremony in the Hotel Klaus K in Helsinki. The topic 'Two stories' motivated 425 students to send in a total of 350 competition entries. Finland will be one of the places this year where a EUSTORY Youth Academy will take place.

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Estonian Award Ceremony | 18 May 2013

Estonian Student receives award | Photo: Tina Gotthardt
Estonian Student receives award | Photo: Tina Gotthardt

The award ceremony for the 14th edition of the Estonian History Competition took place on 18th May at the Ministry of Education and Research in Tartu in the south of Estonia. This round marks the end of an era: Tiiu Ojala and Viivi Rohtla stepped down as Estonian organisers.

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Russian Award Ceremony | 30 April 2013

Russian Award Ceremony | Photo: Gabriele Woidelko

Youngsters from all over Russia celebrated the award ceremony of the 14th Russian history competition run by the International MEMORIAL Society in Moscow on 30 April 2013. It was great to see so much enthusiasm and commitment in these difficult times!

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Austrian Award Ceremony | 26 April 2013

Austrian Award Winners | Photo: Andreas Wenzel/HBF
Austrian Award Winners | Photo: Andreas Wenzel/HBF

The award ceremony of the Austrian history competition took place in the Hofburg Palace in Vienna on 26 April 2013. The Austrian Federal President Heinz Fischer and the Minister of Education Claudia Schmied presented the awards to the students.  The topic of the competition was “Identity(ies) in Austria since 1945”.

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Award Ceremony Season is starting | 15 April 2013

Italian award winners | Photo: Andrea Guermani

The Italian event in March kicked off this year's series of award ceremonies. On 30 April, the non-governmental organisation MEMORIAL will honour the winners of the Russian history competition in Moscow. The Estonian ceremony follows on 18 May, Finland and Sweden will hold their ceremonies on 24 May, followed by the Swiss and Latvian ceremonies one day later.