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Students of Arany Janos high school participating in the final event of the European Schools for a Living Planet 2010

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  aces - Academy of Central European Schools

  Do you think that education contributes to the process of European integration? Would you like to participate in shaping the [...]

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  ERSTE Foundation Award for Social Integration

  For many countries in Central and South Eastern Europe, the fall of Communism was the most dramatic change in several [...]

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  KomenskýFond

  "Omnes, omnia, omnino.” (Teach everything in-depth to everyone.) This quote of Johann Amos Comenius is the motto of KomenskýFond, established [...]

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  PATTERNS Lectures

  PATTERNS Lectures supports the development of new university courses in Central and South Eastern Europe in the fields of art [...]

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  tranzit

  “As a legacy of Socialism, artists are still accustomed to producing works of art independently, totally separate from society, with [...]

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• Artists-in-Residence programme of tranzit and ERSTE Foundation

  This Artist-in-Residence programme at quartier21/ MuseumsQuartier in Vienna  is part of ERSTE Foundation and tranzit’s endeavour to support contemporary art, [...]

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• European Schools for a Living Planet

  Until recently, natural resources have been more than sufficient to support human needs. However, WWF’s 2006 biennial Living Planet Report [...]

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• Fellowships for Curators and Artists at Salzburg Summer Academy

  Every summer, more than 300 students from more than 40 countries worldwide work in approximately 20 classes on art projects [...]

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• Kakanien - New Homelands

  Speech series at Vienna’s Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz. More then twenty years have passed since the autumn of 1989, when Austria ceased [...]

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  Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe

  Climate change, political conflicts, the poverty trap and the economic crisis – these are the key issues today. The issue [...]

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• CLOSE ENCOUNTERS 08, Vienna * Bratislava * Budapest

  Within the scope of this project, 30 artists from Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest arrange exhibitions, presentations and DJ sets on [...]

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• Flow - Festival of Conversation in Culture and Science

  Flow is an innovative cross-border communication and networking platform for today’s and tomorrow’s young producers of culture, art and knowledge [...]

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• Monument to Transformation 1989-2009

  Exhibition, 28 May to30 August 2009The City Gallery of PragueMonument to Transformation 1989-2009 summarises two and a half years of [...]

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• The Diversity Report on Books and Translation

  Europe is growing together not only economically but culturally, too. As globalisation pervades our cultures and cultural scenes, the number [...]

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• The Social Business Tour 2010

  Social exclusion, destitution, poverty. Not only people in the developing world and emerging countries have these problems. They are also [...]

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• Secret Years Civilian Works Association of Public Utility Hungary
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  Secret Years

  Organisation: Civilian Works Association of Public Utility Countries: Hungary

  This documentary is directed by Takács Mária and deals with the life story of eleven older lesbian women. It is suppletory in two important fields: it opens up and elevates into the general consciousness a previously unknown layer of life under state socialism, thus giving important information to the writing of recent history. On the other hand it raises the conspicuousness of older lesbians. This enables a varied public to become acquainted with representatives of a previously unknown social group: these life stories give strength to many hiding lesbians to assume their identity, and so integrate better into society, and the non-lesbian viewers have the chance to get acquainted with representatives of a, to them perhaps previously unknown, social group. The fact that the film reflects on the present day homophobia, exclusion, which has increased during the last years, also enhances social integration. www.eltitkoltevek.hu
  

   
• Romani program not only for the Romani Society for Liberty Rights Hungary
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  Romani program not only for the Romani

  Organisation: Society for Liberty Rights Countries: Hungary

  The situation of the deeply poor (the Romani, first of all) in Hungary can only improve if they evolve into strong communities, with their own chosen activists and leaders who would have access to means necessary for the implementation of the rights and interests of the community. To protect the rights of the excluded and poor ones, this project connects on-site work with the organisation of the community and mediation with the protection of rights (legal counseling, strategic court cases, implementing requirements of public interest), backed by strong media activity. Further on, local activists and the community are being introduced to each other and to journalists, to local and foreign experts, supporting joint projects and organizations. Basic Internet skills to the extremely poor are being thought and it´s being fought against the oppression by the police and the authorities, selective/discriminative implementation of the law, too. www.tasz.hu
  

   
• Retextil – Human and Ecological Recycling Program Retextil Alapítvány Hungary
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  Retextil – Human and Ecological Recycling Program

  Organisation: Retextil Alapítvány Countries: Hungary

  The project provides participants the opportunities for development in the long run and stimulates their creativity by teaching them elementary arts and crafts techniques, through which new eco-design products emerge from waste-clothes. The project itself has high ecological and social value: High standard eco community spaces are proof that people others can not employ can make profit, and the sense of this influences their quality of life, increases their self-esteem, enriches their relationship capital. They receive great social recognition, because the product leaving their hands represents a high value, both ecologically and artistically. It is also a social benefit that they are removed from the scope of those receiving benefits (participants get the employment accreditation, so that work can go on recognized by the state and regularly financed, in an appropriate physical and spiritual setting, and adoptable manner) and very rarely return to hospital for treatment. www.retextil.com
  

   
• Integration without boundaries: Baráthegy Farm Symbiosis for Harmonical Coexistence Foundation Hungary
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  Integration without boundaries: Baráthegy Farm

  Organisation: Symbiosis for Harmonical Coexistence Foundation Countries: Hungary

  The Baráthegy Farm is organized as an environmentally and economically sustainable unit of social economy whose target group is the circle of people facing autism and the mentally challenged. By creating a complex system of social, employment and rehabilitation elements it is possible for the challenged individuals (72 persons) to have a career and a positive outlook based on the principle of individual life. Operators of the 5 hectares farm situated at the city limits next to the national park are continuously on the outlook for innovative solutions and for actual social integration. In order to reach this aim, they established a youth hostel that functions as a farm school: They host groups coming from various educational institutions and provide accommodation and catering for them by involving challenged persons. The trainers in various domains (goat milking, cheese manufacturing, candle-making, felt-making, weaving, riding etc.) are our challenged colleagues working in these domains. During the joint activity, the challenged appear in a positive position which furthers their social integration. Acceptation cannot be taught, it can only be transferred through experience. www.szimbiozis.net www.barathegy.com
  

   
• Bódvalenke Fresco Village Hungarian Reformed Mission Foundation Hungary
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  Bódvalenke Fresco Village

  Organisation: Hungarian Reformed Mission Foundation Countries: Hungary

  Within the project Roma are actively involved in community building processes to support their social integration. Painting murals was the starting point for them to turn their Hungarian village into a tourist attraction, to create jobs and therefore to improve their livelihood. Further goals include training of locals to enable them to receive tourists; education of children; acquiring working places based on local skills and resources (business plans developed for tailoring plant, mushroom drying and packaging plant, joiner's workshop, tourist path across the marshes, camping site and small restaurant, but the problem of funding for these still exists).   www.jobbadni.hu
  

   
• Reporting Roma Issues in New Member States of the European Union Transitions o.s. Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria
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  Reporting Roma Issues in New Member States of the European Union

  Organisation: Transitions o.s. Countries: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria

  The media scenes in CEE don't necessarily suffer from the shortage of Roma outlets, but nearly all of those outlets face sustainability issues. Along with inadequate funding, the lack of qualified Roma journalists committed to a career in journalism is a major issue. Even when they are willing to employ Roma journalists, mainstream outlets struggle to find qualified Roma reporters. And without Roma reporters in the newsroom, news on the Roma, even if well-intentioned, will inevitably be reflecting majority views more than those of the Roma. By providing individual Roma journalists with learning-by-doing opportunities tailored around their other commitments, the issue of inadequate representation of the Roma people in the media is being adressed. This project gives advanced multimedia skills to a group of twenty Roma and majority community reporters in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. It promotes cooperation between them as well as produces a significant amount of media content. www.tol.org
  

   
• ProRatatouille Program – sustainable organic farming, employment and environmental pilot in five disadvantaged localities in Hungary Pro-Cserehát Egyesület Hungary
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  ProRatatouille Program – sustainable organic farming, employment and environmental pilot in five disadvantaged localities in Hungary

  Organisation: Pro-Cserehát Egyesület Countries: Hungary

  Within this project poor, but knowledgeable Roma people engage in organic farming, by adapting the Community Supported Agricultural (CSA) model in the Cserehát (= north-eastern Hungary). These farms serve as a means of subsistence and of livelihoods for the local people. Products are sold under the new ProRatatouille brand joining high quality, social solidarity, environmental consciousness and sustainability. www.pro-cserehat.hu
  

   
• CATALOGUE on the occasion MLADEN STILINOVIĆ – RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest Hungary
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  CATALOGUE on the occasion MLADEN STILINOVIĆ – RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION

  Organisation: Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest Countries: Hungary

  Mladen Stilinović, born in Zagreb, 1947, is one of the most important conceptual artists of the former Yugoslavia. In his work he criticises the political language, the institutional hierarchy of arts or the social role of money and labour. Accompanying the first big-scale retrospective exhibition of the artist which took place in Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest from 21 April to 2 July 2011, this book features over 100 installations, environments, artist’ books, collages, slogans, photo works, and previously unpublished early videos and experimental films. It also includes essays by such distinguished scholars as Branka Stipančić, Ellen Blumenstein, Ana Javenski, Georg Schöllhammer, et. al. which examine the extensive and consistent oeuvre of Mladen Stilinović and his importance on the international art scene. http://www.ludwigmuseum.hu
  

   
• ARTPOOL 1979–2009 – Sources and Documents – Research and English language book project Artpool Art Research Center Hungary
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  ARTPOOL 1979–2009 – Sources and Documents – Research and English language book project

  Organisation: Artpool Art Research Center Countries: Hungary

   This bookis a documentary publication about the history and activity of the Hungarian Art Research Center "Artpool". It was founded in 1979 by the artist György Galántai and Julia Klaniczay and is still functioning and active. During the last 30 years Artpool organised more than 400 art events with the participation of hunderds of international artists and scholars. Its aim was to provide contemporary Hungarian artists with information and potential contacts on the international art scene, as well as to publicize and document the activities of Hungarian artists out of favor with those who dictated the cultural policy of the time. Subsequent to the political changes of 1989, Artpool was officially recognized and opened to the public as a non-profit organization and continued its activity based on Galántai's "Active Archive" concept. With the elaboration of Artpool's history not only an important portion of Hungarian art history becomes available, but the access to the understanding of the context of independent art movements in Central Europe, too. Its library, multi media archive and website are largely used by researchers from all over the world. A publication about one of the most important art archives in Eastern Europe is long time awaited by the international art community. www.artpool.hu
  

   
• Making Radical Art in Hungary 1975-1980 The Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE) Közép-európai Egyetem Hungary
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  Making Radical Art in Hungary 1975-1980

  Organisation: The Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE) Közép-európai Egyetem Countries: Hungary

  Making Radical Art in Hungary is the documentation of an art historical “oral history” that took place over a period of only five years. Interviews with sixteen Hungarian artists, whose works were created between 1975 and 1980, form the basis of the project.
  This period marked a shift both in political conditions as well as in artistic practices. “The Shadow of Yalta”, the settlement reached in 1945 at the Conference of Yalta that split Germany in two and divided the world through the Cold War, had begun to fade.

  http://www.mke.hu/

  
  

   
• BBS 50 Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest Hungary
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  BBS 50

  Organisation: Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest Countries: Hungary

  Béla Balázs Studio (BBS) was founded as an interest group and discussion forum during the politically challenging period at the end of the 1950s in Budapest. Soon thereafter it became a mainstream production studio for young professional filmmakers. A shift in focus occurred at the beginning of the 1970s as a new generation of filmmakers became interested in interdisciplinary approaches and BBS was broadened to include influences from other fields as well as new members who had been previously connected with the cultural “underground”. This “experimental shift” included new interests in sociological and documentary films. A publication documents the over 50-year period of activity of the BBS from a political and aesthetic perspective.

  http://www.mucsarnok.hu; http://www.bbsarchiv.hu

  
  

   
• Agents & Provocateurs Modern Művészetért Közalapítvány (Modern Art Foundation - Institute of Contemporary Art) Hungary
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  Agents & Provocateurs

  Organisation: Modern Művészetért Közalapítvány (Modern Art Foundation - Institute of Contemporary Art) Countries: Hungary

  Agents & Provocateurs investigates the forms of oppositional art in the totalitarian systems of Central and Eastern Europe for an exhibition and publication. The analysis focuses on the figures who actively confronted, provoked and antagonized these systems and traces the impacts of their activities in today’s post-totalitarian democracies.

  
  

   
• Paranoia Recycling KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM Hungary
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  Paranoia Recycling

  Organisation: KOZEP-EUROPAI EGYETEM Countries: Hungary

  A series of informational films on ABC-weapons (ABC stands for atomic, biological, chemical) produced in the early 1960s and 70s in Hungary by the military and by the “Sport Film Studio for the Civil Defence Alliance” are important historical documents and offer insight into the political and social climate during the Cold War era in Hungary and Eastern Europe. Regarded as an informational medium intended for the civil population with instructions for protecting against the alleged threat from Western nuclear weapons of mass destruction, they were also primarily responsible for creating an image of the enemy and disseminating a sense of paranoia. Over eighty films were recovered in 2001 from a bunker in Györ and are now privately held. With their restoration, digitalization and English subtitling, the films are made freely available in an online archive. http://www.osaarchivum.org/
  

   
• RE-DESIGNING THE EAST. Political Design in Asia and Europe Trafó - Kortárs Művészetek Háza Hungary
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  RE-DESIGNING THE EAST. Political Design in Asia and Europe

  Organisation: Trafó - Kortárs Művészetek Háza Countries: Hungary

  The exhibition Re-Designing the East: Political Design in Asia and Europe highlights critical and resistive design practices in (Eastern) Europe and (South/Eastern) Asia from the nineteen-eighties through the present. Of particular focus is the role of both design and designers in the context of sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural upheaval. The project is based upon a co-operation between the Württembergischer Kunstverein, the Trafó Gallery in Budapest, the Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk and the Total Museum, Seoul. The exhibition comprises six sections, each of which has been developed by different curators from Europe and Asia.

  
  

   
• kaskosan.com Angle Cultural and Educational Organization Hungary
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  kaskosan.com

  Organisation: Angle Cultural and Educational Organization Countries: Hungary

  ‘Kasko san’ is the first question to ask when meeting a traditional Roma person, and means ‘Whose child are you?’ Discussing family stories and identifying common family ties is the first area of interest whenever Roma meet. Kaskosan.com is the largest Roma social media presence on the Internet. In the last year, 175,000 Roma have visited Kaskosan, and so far 13,000 have signed up as members. Roma families and communities around the world now use Kaskosan to share and renew their rich culture, Rromanipe, while contributing to an emerging global Roma identity. The strength of these family ties, united on Kaskosan, is a network of trust that creates a unique opportunity to communicate directly with the Roma grassroots.

  
  

   
• Summa cum Laude International Youth Music Festival Via Musica Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Poland, Kosovo, Hungary, Ukraine
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  Summa cum Laude International Youth Music Festival

  Organisation: Via Musica Countries: Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Poland, Kosovo, Hungary, Ukraine

  This important youth music festival, which takes place every summer in Wiener Musikverein under the patronage of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, unites for the fifth time a great number of enthusiastic and talented young people from different countries in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe.

  http://www.sclfestival.org/

  
  

   
• Subversive Film Festival 2010 Bijeli Val Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia
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  Subversive Film Festival 2010

  Organisation: Bijeli Val Countries: Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia

   The conference within the Subversive Film Festival dealt with the meaning of Socialism, marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and the 65th anniversary of the victory over Fascism, hosting prominent participants such as Slavoj Zizek etc. It took place from 1 to 25 May in Zagreb.

  www.subversivefilmfestival.com

  
  

   
• Art Always Has Its Consequences and English version of tranzit.blog.hu Tranzit Hungary Közhasznú Egyesület Hungary
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  Art Always Has Its Consequences and English version of tranzit.blog.hu

  Organisation: Tranzit Hungary Közhasznú Egyesület Countries: Hungary

  tranzit.blog.hu aims to bring together and create a dialogue between cultural writers and journalists from different fields. The blog addresses both the professional public and a wider audience. The English version is written by invited Hungarian, East European and international art professionals, artists and journalists with a focus on theoretical discourses and information on events from the region and comes out weekly. The other project, “Art Always Has Its Consequences” also has a regional focus with the aim of mediating information internationally. It is a long-term international collaborative platform, partly supported by the Culture 2007 program of the EU. The project wishes to create and disseminate knowledge about paradigmatic socially engaged art and visual culture practices in CEE since the 1960s, including their past and present relationships towards the wider European context. Through exhibitions, research laboratories, seminars, and publications the project is creating vital links between national practices and contemporary developments. The four participating partners are WHW from Zagreb, tranzit.hu, Hungary, kuda.org, Novi Sad and Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz, Poland. The thematical focus points of the projects include: the invisible history of exhibitions, artists’ writings, archival practices and conceptual design and typography. http://www.tranzit.org/
  

   
• Diversity Report 2009 Verein für kulturelle Transfers, Vienna Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, United Kingdom
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  Diversity Report 2009

  Organisation: Verein für kulturelle Transfers, Vienna Countries: Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, United Kingdom

  From a general understanding of cultural diversity and books to a road map of literary translation in Europe. The goal of this report is to develop a framework to continuously observe and analyze the career paths of fiction authors and their work across European book markets, with a special emphasis on translation, and how books travel across linguistic borders.
  

   
• The Fall of the ‘Iron Curtain’ and the Culture of Europe: 1989-2009 University of Surrey Austria, Croatia, Hungary
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  The Fall of the ‘Iron Curtain’ and the Culture of Europe: 1989-2009

  Organisation: University of Surrey Countries: Austria, Croatia, Hungary

  This interdisciplinary conference commemorated 20 years since the fall of the ‘Iron Curtain’ by focusing on its impact on European culture and took place in London in November 2009. In the spotlight of the talks stood the literary representation of the event, especially the reception of previously suppressed texts and narratives about national, individual and European forms of ‘new’ identities.

  http://www.acflondon.org/lectures-talks-symposia/fall-iron-curtain/

  
  

   
• 5th MSE Meeting, “Network Practice” Jana-Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem (the Czech Republic) Ukraine, Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Macedonia, Kosovo, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Albania
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  5th MSE Meeting, “Network Practice”

  Organisation: Jana-Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem (the Czech Republic) Countries: Ukraine, Slovenia, Slovak Republic, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Macedonia, Kosovo, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Albania

  Twice a year Middle-South-East (MSE) meetings gather together leaders of art initiatives and institutions, curators from different countries, etc. with a focus on the Central and South Eastern European region to exchange knowledge, information and experiences and to discuss a specific topic. The 5th MSE meeting takes place in November 2008 in Ústí nad Labem (the Czech Republic) and focus on the idea of networking itself by discussing and comparing different conceptions of existing networks and the role they can play in developing projects among the participants in such networks. Therefore a number of representatives from other comparable networks, leaders of institutions and curators who work with ideas and structures triggered by networking are invited to join the meeting.
  

   
• Jewish Witness to a Romanian Century: Pictures and Stories from the Interviews of Centropa.org CEC - Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation, devoted to researching Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe Hungary, Austria
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  Jewish Witness to a Romanian Century: Pictures and Stories from the Interviews of Centropa.org

  Organisation: CEC - Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation, devoted to researching Jewish life in Central and Eastern Europe Countries: Hungary, Austria

  This exhibition about Jewish life in Romania comprises old family pictures and the stories that go with them. Within the scope of the exhibition, 100 roll-up posters take visitors inside the Romanian Jewish experience – from photos of Jews selling cattle in the 1910s and studio portraits from the 1870s, to photos of teenagers in school in the 1970s and families on holiday in the 1990s. The Central Europe Center (Centropa), based in Vienna and Budapest, is the first organisation that is using new technologies to preserve Jewish memory in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Balkans and the Baltics. By combining oral histories with family pictures in a searchable database available from every computer in the world with internet access, Centropa has created a digital bridge back to a world that no longer exists.