Europia project

🇪🇺 How can cultural heritage strengthen European identity and active citizenship?
The EUROPIA project is pleased to promote the final international conference of the INTHRACE project:
📍 Brașov, Romania
📅 29 May 2026
🎟 Free participation
“Current Challenges in Safeguarding and Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage”
The conference brings together researchers, academics, cultural professionals, and practitioners interested in:
🔹 safeguarding intangible cultural heritage
🔹 digitalisation and new technologies
🔹 community engagement and participatory approaches
🔹 cultural identity and intercultural dialogue
🔹 education, tourism, and heritage governance

The values promoted by INTHRACE closely resonate with the objectives of EUROPIA: strengthening awareness of shared European values, promoting dialogue across cultures, and supporting education focused on European identity, democracy, inclusion, and active citizenship.
At a time when Europe faces increasing social and geopolitical challenges, cultural heritage remains an essential resource for strengthening unity through diversity. 💙
📢 Call for papers is now open!
🌐 More information:
https://inthrace.unitbv.ro/index.php/final-conference/

Europe’s religious heritage is part of our shared cultural memory.
The RELIGITOUR project promotes the preservation, socialization, and sustainable integration of religious heritage into education, tourism, and community life.
By connecting universities, cultural organizations, and local communities, RELIGITOUR helps strengthen dialogue, cultural understanding, and awareness of common European values.
Learn more:
🌐 www.religitour.eu

🇪🇺 Cultural heritage connects communities across Europe.
The INTHRACE project explores how intangible cultural heritage can strengthen collective identity, civic engagement, and awareness of shared European values through education, research, and community participation.
From traditions and rituals to digital heritage and community storytelling, INTHRACE contributes to preserving Europe’s cultural diversity while promoting unity through heritage.
Discover more about the project and its activities:
🌐 www.inthrace.unitbv.ro

Seventy-five years after the start of the integration process in Europe, marked by the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community—the precursor to today’s European Union (EU)—there remains a lack of consensus among European states, their citizens, and researchers regarding the political meaning of the term “Europe” and the essence of European values. Contradictions in these interpretations are apparent in the political practices of contemporary Europe and in the socio-political turbulence that exists both within individual states and societies, as well as between European countries, regardless of their EU membership status.
Given the current political, social, and academic trends, we believed it was crucial to foster a scientific debate on contemporary understandings of European values, their interpretations across different regions, and among various social groups, as well as to explore the direction of their future development. Therefore, in June 2025, we organised the conference in Belgrade titled “European Values: From Challenge to Affirmation,” which addressed these questions from various disciplinary perspectives and resulted in a collection of papers under the same title, featuring 19 contributions from conference participants in the Serbian language (apart from one paper, which is in English).
The first part of the collection features papers that explore European values in relation to norms and identity. The next section focuses on research concerning the practical application of these values within specific EU sector policies. Following that, several papers analyse how European values are applied in the context of contemporary international relations, diplomacy, and the EU's external actions. The penultimate section presents papers that examine the role of European values in the EU's enlargement policy, which has been crucial to the Union's development since the second half of the 20th century. Finally, the last section of this collection includes papers that discuss the value component in various aspects of Serbia's EU accession process.
The collection is published by the University of Belgrade – Faculty of Political Sciences. The editors are Prof. Dr Ivana Radić Milosavljević, Assistant Prof. Dr Janja Simentić Popović, and Assistant Prof. Dr Milan Krstić.
The conference was organised as part of the EUROPIA project (On-Wheels Summer School for the Socio-Cultural Evolution of European Values, Principles, Identity, and Awareness), financed by the European Union through the Erasmus+ programme. More information about the project is available on the official website: https://www.europiaproject.eu/. The collection of papers is an added value to the project’s results. It is available for download here: https://katalog.fpn.bg.ac.rs/sr/publikacija/evropske-vrednosti-izmedu-osporavana-i-afirmacije


Europia project
Fakultet političkih nauka - Univerzitet u Beogradu
University of Warsaw

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Erasmus+
Fakultet političkih nauka - Univerzitet u Beogradu
Universitatea TRANSILVANIA din Brasov
Sveučilište u Zagrebu
UPNA
Wydział Nauk Politycznych i Studiów Międzynarodowych UW

Europia Project – EuropiaProject

Our project team members Ivana Radic Milosavljevic and Spasimir Domaradzki participated in the conference “Political Order in the Balkans - Stabilizing and Destabilizing Factors” organized at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland (22-24.6.2025). They discussed the topics relevant to the project - the role of the EU, the promotion of democratic governance, European values in the WB6, and their regional cooperation efforts. They also used the opportunity to spread the information about the Europia project results in informal discussions with the participants.
Europia project
Erasmus+
Fakultet političkih nauka - Univerzitet u Beogradu
University of Warsaw

On 25th June UPNA organised a a meeting with students from the University of Timisoara, Milan, Pau and UPNA entitled: Challenges of Artificial Intelligence for Constitutional Law and Fundamental Rights.