We are happy to announce that the Euro Lider Association is participating in the the project ECHOES as part of the European Union’s Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) under the call CERV-2024-CITIZENS-REM-HOLOCAUST.
This CERV initiative focuses on the issue of raising the awareness of the Holocaust, combating misinformation, closing the knowledge gap, and addressing denialists attempting to distort the memory of Holocaust. The project aims to preserve the memory of these events through the development of AI-powered chatbots based on real testimonies of Holocaust survivors. The usage of these modern technologies will provide the users with an immersive, valuable, engaging learning experience, fostering a deeper understanding of discussed matters, not achievable otherwise, with the sole use of traditional knowledge transfer methods. The project started in May 2025 and its actions are planned until April 2027.
The development of the entirety of the outputs of the project will be guided by multiple frameworks and methodologies, ensuring the alignment with ethical concerns, high historical accuracy, adaptation of the content to the end users as well as maintaining cultural sensitivity.
The project is being implemented by a multinational consortium consisting of professional partnering organisations and universities from Serbia, Greece, Poland, Lithuania, and Romania. The consortium brings together specialists well-equipped to implement all the objectives of the project in a timely manner, while focusing on provision of the highest possible educational value. Partnership will include various institutions representing Jewish communities, historical organisations and educational bodies.
The main needs expected to be covered by the project include:
Need 1: Combating knowledge gaps and receding Holocaust remembrance,
Need 2: Addressing Holocaust denial and revisionist narratives,
Need 3: Promoting interactive, sustainable and engaging learning pathways creating historical perspective,
Need 4: Ensuring preservation of Holocaust in a post-survivor era,
Need 5: Developing and investing in a transnational and transcultural approach to Holocaust education and remembrance,
Need 6: Establishment of a multidisciplinary approach engaging educational institutions, Jewish communities, museums and research organizations to broaden the educational focus,
Need 7: Providing for modern educational solutions offering gender-sensitive, disability-inclusive, and age- appropriate content and methods of delivery.