If you visit a city in any corner of Europe, you will almost certainly visit one of its iconic landmarks: the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Colosseum or the Trevi Fountain in Rome, the Acropolis in Athens, or the Alhambra in Granada, and so on. This holds true for Iași as well. Nothing is more symbolic than the Palace of Culture, which stands as a timeless witness not only to the history of Iași, but also to the history of

From museums to the street I grew up in Italy, where English is practically a mandatory subject throughout your entire school journey. Grammar rules, vocabulary lists, common expressions. I even started reading books in their original language, thinking it would be enough. Yet, no matter how much I learned, I always felt like something was missing to speak English with real confidence.Then, through the European Solidarity Corps, I moved to Lisbon, where I lived with three other young Europeans. Suddenly,

Telling Europe’s history   Introduction Literally translated, “oral history” means “spoken history”. In English, however, the term has a broader meaning: it refers to the past as recalled by a person during a conversation or interview and recounted verbally by that person. Oral history is therefore fundamentally a research method. Oral history is fundamentally a retrospective research method. It is therefore not—as is the case, for example, in empirical surveys—concerned with current views or interpretations of past events or occurrences,

Whenever I tell people that I coordinate European cooperation projects, I am sometimes asked whether programmes such as Erasmus+ are worth the investment. It is a fair question. Public money should always be spent responsibly. After participating in and coordinating European projects for many years, however, I have come to believe that the greatest value of Erasmus+ is not only found in its reports, toolkits or training materials. Its real impact is much more human.Projects such as One Culture (see

How can we transform abstract concepts of European citizenship into tangible, understandable, and daily actions for everyone? Faced with the challenges of euroscepticism and civic disengagement, the Erasmus+ ONE Culture project offers an innovative answer: using artistic expression and creativity as levers for inclusion and adult learning. This European initiative aims to foster a stronger sense of belonging by bringing foundational values directly into the learners’ realities. To test these principles on the ground, pedagogical teams in Bordeaux, France, recently

By Skill Up In Europe, culture also passes through the table. Every dish tells a story, every recipe is a bridge between generations, every ingredient is the result of travel, exchange, and contamination. Food is not just nourishment: it is memory, identity, tradition, but also dialogue, innovation, and encounter. European gastronomy is a living, shared heritage, capable of uniting different peoples around a universal element: the pleasure of being together at the table. Since ancient times, food has played a