Discover the pilot project of the Participatory Public History Lab (PPHL), a collaborative initiative led by PhD candidate Camilla Portesani in partnership with the House of European History (HEH) in Brussels. The project has explored the intersection of transnational public participation and history co-production within museum contexts. The team developed, implemented and assessed a participatory methodology to create new historical narratives with a pool of international students. The participants responded to an open call which was circulated amongst different universities across Europe. These institutions who were involved are:

• University of Wroclaw in Poland,
• Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski in Bulgaria,
• Breda University of Applied Sciences, in the Netherlands
• Pädagogische Hochschule Luzern, in Switzerland

The students’ co-created content was inspired by a display of the HEH entitled “European Heritage and Memory”, proposed in the initial “Shaping Europe” section of the permanent exhibition. The contributions from the participant enrich the discourse of the museum and present a different interpretation of the objects and association of themes. The narratives and sources which informed them are presented in a temporary installation inside the museum, which will be open to the public in the Fall 2024.