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Freedom, democracy, equality: big and abstract themes that are sometimes difficult to talk about. But when they are wrapped in a personal story, it suddenly becomes crystal clear what it is all about.
What can you change about society? How is your own life affected by shortcomings in democracy? How to deal with a suffocating society? Watch the short films about very ‘ordinary’ Europeans with very special life lessons and insights.
Changing Democracies
Is My Democracy Your Democracy?
Democracy is never complete. The Changing Democracies project tells stories from all over Europe about the transition to democracy and explores what we can learn from those changes.
When things go wrong, people expect that all change will be an improvement. But history teaches us that this is not always the case. We are dancing on a thin rope: important values can easily disappear if we are not careful.
Freedom Fighters
ACT for Liberty
What does freedom mean to us today? Do we take freedom for granted, or is it an ongoing fight to protect it? What do you do for freedom? ACT for Liberty investigates what threatens our freedom today and challenges young Europeans to come up with fresh ideas and creative solutions to safeguard their freedom or improve it.
How to Survive a Dictatorship
A survival guide in 6 episodes
We tend to forget, but until 1989 half of Europe lived under authoritarian rule. For these Europeans the past is far from forgotten, sometimes the dictatorship still haunts them in their dreams. But in a dictatorship, people also laugh and love. They are resilient and never mere victims. They know how to behave to make their daily troubles bearable. In the video series ‘How to Survive a Dictatorship’ six Europeans share their survival strategies and tell their personal story. Taken together, the episodes form a survival guide.