CONSORTIUM

Central European University (CEU)　Vienna, Austria

Central European University (CEU) was founded in 1991 by investor George Soros. Located in Vienna, CEU offers graduate programs in English and is accredited in both Austria and the United States. Students from over 100 countries study across 15 departments. The Department of History provides an excellent academic gateway to the history of Central, Southeastern, and Eastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Middle East from the early modern period to the twenty-first century, putting these in conversation with other European and world regions. It also actively engages in comparative historical perspectives. The whole university and the Department of History, in particular, has a civic commitment to analyzing, producing, and disseminating historical knowledge as a way of social and political emancipation and empowerment. Within the HIPS program, CEU plays a coordination role for the entire consortium.

Blinken OSA Archivum (Archivum)　Budapest, Hungary

The Blinken OSA Archivum is a complex archival institution at CEU. It serves as an archive that preserves documents and other historical materials and as a research institution that utilizes and interprets them to conduct research. The Archivum is a repository of important collections and historical documents primarily related to the history and afterlives of the Cold War, grave international human rights violations, and marginalized communities, including the Roma, LGBTQI+ individuals, and people with disabilities. The research results based on these historical materials are made public and stored as further materials. The Archivum seeks to work in a self-reflective way by problematizing its tasks and its changing practices. In an age of disinformation, the misuse of sources, and the distortion of facts, it is committed to rebuilding the trust and integrity of its holdings and methods.

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA)　Lisbon, Portugal

It is a public university located in Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, and was established in 1973. Today, it is recognized as one of the leading research universities in Portugal. The NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA FCSH) was founded in 1977, shortly after the democratization of Portugal in 1974, with the mission of contributing academically to the development of a new society. In recent years, NOVA FCSH has established a Digital Humanities Lab, which provides services and training to develop technical and methodological solutions for applying digital technologies to humanities research. As such, it is an interdisciplinary faculty that promotes a close integration of teaching and research.

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich) 　Munich, Germany

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU Munich) is a public university founded in 1472 in Ingolstadt and relocated to Munich in the early nineteenth century. It is one of Europe’s leading comprehensive research universities. With its long history, LMU encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, and law. Owing to its high level of research, it has made a significant contribution to the development of scholarship in the German-speaking world. As one of the largest universities in Germany, with tens of thousands of students, LMU serves as an international academic hub, welcoming students and researchers from around the world. It has also been selected as part of the “Excellence Initiative,” a research funding program jointly supported by the German federal and state governments, and is widely recognized as one of Europe’s top research universities.