9 May 2021: Kick-off Europe Challenge programme

On Europe Day 2021 we kicked-off our pilot Europe Challenge with an online event, bringing together all the participating libraries, hosted by DemSoc’s director Anthony Zacharzewski and with special guests Andre Wilkens (ECF’s director) and Jan Rock (assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam). Together with our audience, we explored the history, the present and the future of public libraries as open, safe and inclusive public spaces where people with all kinds of backgrounds have access to curated knowledge and experiences and are invited to participate. This online event marked the start of the experimentation phase of the Europe Challenge pilot.