From 5 to 10 July the ELTE Faculty of Education and Psychology hosted the second European summer school on “Prejudice, Genocide, Remembrance” organised together with the Tom Lantos Institute and CEJI – A Jewish Contribution to an Inclusive Europe, and supported by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary.

Thirty participants from Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom came to Budapest to take part in the training. We were very glad to see such geographical and cultural diversity creating a great atmosphere for discussion, enriched by a rich variety of academic and professional background and interests.

Invited lecturers and trainers came from Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Poland, and the United Kingdom. Thanks to the diversity of their professional backgrounds and experiences, they offered participants a wide range of perspectives and insights, using various approaches – from legal and historical, to social psychological and educational – in order to address very topical issues such as prejudices, genocides, Holocaust education and remembrance, freedom of press, or radicalisation and far-right extremism.

In addition to lectures and workshops, the programme included interactive guided walks in the Jewish neighbourhood and to the Shoe Memorial on the Danube; a visit to the Gallery 8 – Roma Contemporary Art Space of the European Cultural Foundation; the launch of an exhibition on the Roma genocide in context; and a literary evening on Romani literature.