At Home in Europe (AHIE)

When young citizens turn into "reporters"

1. Active European remembrance

Young Europeans meet with historians and witnesses of our past… They investigate events of the Second World War or more recent history in Germany (the student movement of the White Rose in Munich, the conference of Wannsee in Berlin), in France (the Vel d’Hiv Roundup in Paris, the resistance in Vercors), in Belgium (the fate of escaped Jewish children), in Russia (Katyn Forest massacre), in Poland (Auschwitz, the ghetto of Warshaw…), in Belarus (the Jewish Bielsky partisans)... The unearthing of the fascinating historical accounts form the survivors provide themes and topics of discussion very relevant to present day society; such as the origins of fear, which can lead to consider the “other” as bad, impure and to be rejected.

2. Global Citizenship

This series of reports takes us around the world with young citizen reporters. They go in search of solutions experienced by world citizens to solve environmental, societal and humanitarian issues. The ambition of our explorers is to understand the problems and share the solutions that work. Various sustainable development objectives are at the heart of these solutions.

3. At home in Europe

Each year within the EU, 150 000 Erasmus students take the initiative to cross the borders of their country to make their way toward other horizons. These "border-crossing" students decided one day to act as "citizen-reporters". Through their video reportages, shot in member countries of the European Union, they are our eyes and ears taking off to meet with our European civil society. Here, in a few images, the narratives of these "out of the ordinary" reporters.

These projects has been funded with support from the programme ‘Europe for citizens’ of the European Commission, the Belgian Development Cooperation and the Hippocrene Foundation.

With the kind support of