Visible Past is an international project funded by the European Union (call “European Remembrance CERV-2023-Citizens-Rem”) and it involves five European partners: Consorzio Brianteo Villa Greppi (Italy), the University of Coimbra and Contextos (Portugal), Sapere Aude (Austria) and Artifactory (Greece).
It is a public history project based on the assumption that through the dissemination of historical events that marked the 20th century it is possible to make the past “visible” thanks to:
- Historical dissemination, a tool for understanding analogies and differences with the present;
- ∙ Visits to significant places for the history of 20th-century, to observe, today, tangible and intangible signs from the past; ∙ Cultural productions and artistic performances, to breathe the spirit of the past times.
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Project duration:
1 March 2024 – 28 February 2026
For two years - 2024 and 2025 - Visible Past will see the network working together and in parallel on training for students and teachers (with the creation of specific educational materials) and on initiatives for the public along three main lines:
- the rise of authoritarian regimes and the fragile path towards democracy experienced in several Mediterranean European countries, focusing in particular on the fascist period in Italy, the colonels' regime in Greece and the dictatorial regime known as Estado Novo. In this regard, the project was born on the occasion of three anniversaries: the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal (25 April 2024) and of the fall of the colonels' regime in Greece (24 July 2024) and the 80th anniversary of the liberation from Nazi-fascism in Italy (25 April 2025)
- the memory of Shoah;
- the organization of a festival of European culture at Villa Greppi, scheduled for 2025.
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