Historical Archives of the European Union
The Historical Archives of the European Union (HAEU), founded in 1983, preserves and makes accessible the archives of EU institutions and agencies, individuals, and private bodies. It is located at the European University Institute.
- 📣 Research support for work on European integration history! Apply for the Vibeke Sørensen Grant Programme 2026 at the Historical Archives of the EU. 💶 €1540 grant | 🎓 All career levels welcome 📅 Deadline: 20 April 2026 👉 loom.ly/j8cwhOQ @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social
- 📂 New archives online! The @ema.europa.eu made its first archival transfer to the HAEU in 2025. 🗃️The records document its creation, governance & early work on medicines regulation, and are now available for online consultation. ℹ️ loom.ly/p5eHrYc
- ⚛️70 years of science at the heart of Europe 🇪🇺 From Ispra-1 to today’s Joint Research Centre, 'Ricercare il futuro' tells the story of how a research site helped shape European integration. 📚 Join us at Salviati or on zoom 📅 18 February 10:00 - 12:30 ✅ Register: loom.ly/W3zCOS4
- 🕯️ What can a #seal reveal about an institution’s past? From symbols to stories, seals offer a tangible link to Europe’s archival heritage. Discover how our trainee Nicolas Kernel's research gave rise to a fascinating online exhibit about these unique artefacts! 🔗 loom.ly/Pi2-Ado
- Our depositor @esa.int mourns the loss of an ESA pioneer: Prof. Roger-Maurice Bonnet. Our condolences are with his family, friends, and the many colleagues and scientists he led and inspired in his scientific career at the Agency.
- ❓How can audiovisual archives contribute to media literacy? Join this online International Council on Archives webinar to explore history education in a world of misinformation. 📆Monday, 26 January 🕛12:00 GMT+1 (Rome) ✅Register for the link: loom.ly/dqOGsnw #InternationalDayofEducation
- New research on European integration! Join the @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social for its next Cover to Cover seminar, this month focusing on Grace Ballor's forthcoming book 'Enterprise and Integration: Big Business and the Making of the Single European Market'. #EMU #Europeanhistory #EuropeanUnion
- How did big business shape the Single European Market? Join us for Grace Ballor’s talk on her new book Enterprise and Integration. Her research reveals how multinational business influenced European integration and economic governance. 📍 Villa Salviati & Zoom 🗓 15.01, 11:00h 🔗 loom.ly/hc7m_kM
- ⏰ Only 10 days left! 🛰️ The Historical Archives of the European Union is hiring an Archivist for the ESA fonds in Florence. 🗃️ 3+ years archival experience? Join a dynamic, public-facing archive. 📅 Apply by 9 Jan 2026 🔗 loom.ly/PDXYgEA #Hiring #Archivist #ESA #SpaceArchives #Archives
- What do we know about the impact of social partners on EU social governance? The ShaPE project has concluded, delivering insights into how social partners helped shape EU social policy — and how they could do so again. 📖 Read more: loom.ly/qzIUhmo #SocialEurope #SocialDialogue #EUgovernance
- 🎉 EFTA is 65! A new online exhibit traces its journey from post-war Europe to a global trade network 🌍 Curated by EFTA and the HAEU and featuring audiovisual archives preserved in Florence. Explore it here 👇 🔗 loom.ly/WYuP8r8 #EFTA65 #Archives #EuropeanHistory #Trade
- Europe’s Grand Rendez-vous—now at the HAEU. 📂 We have received 1273 files from Jacques Delors’ Cabinet I (1985–1989). From the Single European Act to the single market, the records capture a defining chapter of EU history. 🔗 loom.ly/cMDdZdk
- 🇪🇺 📂✨ New at HAEU: ~3200 Council of the EU files (1958–1995) have been digitised and are now available for online consultation. Collections cover Council meetings, working groups, and EC budgetary files. 🔗 loom.ly/3qQX14I #EUArchives #CouncilOfTheEU #EuropeanHistory #OpenResearch #HAEU
- 📂⚖️ New at the HAEU: 319 digitised procedural files from cases referred to the CJEU in 1991. 🔍 Consultation allowed under special access conditions. 🔗 loom.ly/0c6pevs eucourtofjustice.bsky.social #EUlaw #JudicialHistory #DigitalArchives #CourtOfJustice
- 🎉 2025 ECA Research Grants Awarded! Congrats to Martina Minardi, researching EU defence financing & joint debt, and Dimitri Zurstrassen, studying EU industrial policy financing using ECA archives at the HAEU. 🔗 loom.ly/4z2_df0 @euauditors.bsky.social
- 🎄 Holiday break is coming up! 🔴Don't forget the Historical Archives of the European Union will be closed for holiday break from 20 December - 4 January 2026, inclusive. The reading room will reopen on 5 January. 🖥️Online resources may be consulted through the database: loom.ly/i186kyo
- Alcide De Gasperi is recognised for his great contribution towards a peaceful, united Europe. We were pleased to describe his private archives, preserved in our deposits, for a service by Rai Parlamento on the Fondazione Alcide De Gasperi. 📹Watch the transmission in Italian: loom.ly/8CtiBB8
- 🛰️The HAEU is hiring an ESA Archivist in Florence. 🗃️If you have at least 3 years of archival experience, check out this position! ℹ️loom.ly/PDXYgEA Deadline: 9 Jan @eurospacehistory.bsky.social @esa.int #ESAArchives
- 📢Attention archives professionals! Register now for the #SAGA workshop on disaster management! 📆Thursday 4/12 & Friday 5/12 📍Villa Salviati or online via zoom 🔗 loom.ly/esyvRY0 @mtu.ie @mtutelteam.bsky.social
- 🌟New research! Congrats to research fellow Jacopo Cellini on his new book "Alcide De Gasperi. La cultura di un politico cattolico". Based on newly opened primary sources, it offers a fresh look at the ideas behind a statesman who shaped Italy and Europe. 📙Check it out! loom.ly/FzpBs1M
- 📜We've installed a small, temporary archival exhibit celebrating Václav Havel at the new Václav Havel Room in the EUI's Palazzo Buontalenti. Check it out! ℹ️loom.ly/hhoAvEA @eui-stg.bsky.social #HavelLegacy #Archives #HumanRights
- 55 years ago, Pierre Werner set out a plan that brought us to the euro. We’re marking the anniversary with “Pierre Werner (1913–2002) – A Life Dedicated to Luxembourg and Europe”. Thanks to Europe Direct – University of Luxembourg for bringing this exhibit to life. More info: loom.ly/eamT9N0
- An honour to welcome Viviane Reding, former European Commission Vice-President, to the Archives during her recent visit to the EUI. Her commentary on selected archival documents reminded us how vital archives and oral history are for grasping Europe’s story. Read more: loom.ly/0gFmaqs
- 🌿 Workshop: Disaster Management and Climate Change in Archives 📅 4–5 December 2025 🔗 Register: eui.eu/events?id=577996 Organised by the #SAGAproject, funded by Creative Europe 📷 Photo: UNESCO / Dominique Roger. CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
- 🎥 Know someone preparing for a career in audiovisual heritage? Spread the word! The Historical Archives of the European Union is offering a paid traineeship in audiovisual archiving. 👉 Learn more & apply: loom.ly/Cifgt-g #Traineeship #AudiovisualArchives #HAEU #EUI #CulturalHeritage
- Want to stay current with new resources on the history of European integration? 📬 Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter from the Historical Archives of the European Union: loom.ly/pDomh4k #EuropeanIntegration #HAEU #Archives #EUHistory
- Congratulations to Federica Giaccio and Nicolas Leroy, recipients of the 2025 ESA Postgraduate Research Grant at the HAEU. Funded by @esa.int, the grants support new research on Europe’s path to space cooperation and autonomy. Read more 👉 loom.ly/3OMmROI
- Celebrating #WorldAudiovisualHeritageDay with a look back at 50+ years of visual memory from the @eui-eu.bsky.social 🎥 Explore the newly digitized files documenting its academic and cultural life:🔗 loom.ly/jAlUu4k #EUI50 #Archive #documentary #27October
- 3 researchers have been awarded the 2025 EPP Group Research Grants! Congratulations to Mariaserena Cannistraci, Teona Lavrelashvili, and Thomas Zaugg, whose archival projects will explore the legacy of Christian Democracy in European integration. 🔗loom.ly/UO2OMjE @eppgroup.bsky.social
- Luxembourg Ambassador to Italy, Malta and San Marino Christophe Schiltz visited us on 15/10. It was an honor to show him our work preserving the history of European integration. @eui-adgcentre.bsky.social @luinrome.bsky.social
- 🎧 The HAEU was featured in Open Space(s) earlier this year— a podcast by Adrian Matus for RevDem at CEU! 🙏Thanks to Adrian and the RevDem team for highlighting the HAEU as a democratic space where researchers and citizens connect with the European project. 🎙️ Listen here: loom.ly/MITckI0
- 🌿 It's great to be part of the EUI's sustainability efforts! 🎯The EUI has attained Certification UNI EN ISO 14001/2015 for Environmental Management Systems. 🚀This validates work to reduce the EUIs environmental impacts, and shows we are going in the right direction! 🔎 loom.ly/f6Xd62Q
- 💡 Nearly 1000 students a year dive into the history of European integration at the Historical Archives of the EU. ❓What's our approach to engaging students about European integration and citizenship? 💻Read about it and access a new online exhibition on the programme! 🔗 loom.ly/iDL7ZTE
- Looking forward to Vivianne Reding's speech for the annual Ursula Hirschmann Lecture at the @eui-eu.bsky.social !
- Breaking barriers, building futures On 10 November at 17:00 CET, join the 2025 Ursula Hirschmann lecture by Viviane Reding, President of the Fondation du Mérite européen, and former Vice-President of the European Commission (2010-2014) 👉 loom.ly/00BUrZ8 📣 #GenderStudies #EuropeanIntegration
- For #EuropeanHeritageDays we’re celebrating architectural heritage with "Villa Salviati: Past and Present" — an online exhibit about the site of the HAEU. Discover centuries of Villa Salviati’s architecture and gardens through lithographs, drawing and photographs. 🔗 loom.ly/SgJKSgk
- A shared mission for Europe’s archives 🇪🇺 Colleagues from the @European Commission's Historical Archives Service visited earlier this month to meet with us and describe their work in the Brussels reading room. Get the story on their interesting visit to the HAEU: 🔗 loom.ly/F2VZeyw
- How many of these greetings do you recognize on this poster from the Nicola Di Gioia collection? 👀🗣️ In 2001, the EU marked the European Year of Languages. We're still celebrating today — with 24 official EU languages and counting! #EuropeanDayOfLanguages #EDLangs2025 #HelloEurope
- ⏳ Deadline approaching! Don’t miss your chance to apply for the 2025 European Court of Auditors Postgraduate Research Grant. 📚 The grant supports archival research on the history of EU policy. 📅 Apply by 6 October 2025! 👉 Details: loom.ly/k7LKnMI #grants #archives #EUhistory
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- 🛰️ 1975: ESA’s first satellite, COS-B, took off—pioneering gamma astronomy & mapping the universe in new ways. 🌌 📂 50 years on, selected COS-B archival files (1972–1978) are now digitised & available thanks to @esa.int and the HAEU. ➡️ loom.ly/g03xlLA
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- 📚✨ The HAEU is looking for trainers! Work with Italian students on history, memory & Europe 🇪🇺. Rolling applications, but to join in 2025/26 apply by 15 Oct 2025. 👉 Details here: loom.ly/jOP3avA
- 📢423 files from the European Science Foundation newly open for consultation! The files cover medical research, social sciences, and cross-European collaboration, reflecting European integration in scientific research. 🔗 Details here: loom.ly/8P92wWk #EuropeanIntegration #Historyofscience
- We love meeting early career researchers and renewing ties with more seasoned academics at the Annual Graduate Conference. We hope your research will bring you to our Archives in Florence--we are here to help you!
- 📣 Call for proposals: Conduct research on EU policy & finance using the #ECA archives. 2025 ECA Postgrad #Grants now open for graduate & early-career scholars. 💶 2 x €5,000 grants | 🗓 Deadline: 6 Oct 2025 Apply 👉 loom.ly/Dj9rBPA #EUhistory #archivalresearch #primarysources #EUbudget
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- 🎥 Summer with the Archives: Episode 5 Historian Jacopo Cellini highlights how HAEU supports research: 📚 Archival guides 🗂️ Access to institutional records 🎓 Grants for scholars Watch: loom.ly/bYplvTo #HAEU #Research #EUHistory #Archives
- 🌍 Workshop on Climate + Disaster Management in Archives, 30–31 Oct in Barcelona! 📝 Register: forms.gle/MX4h5NJ4SYTnMiZF8 🔗 Info: loom.ly/9UTBo6c Part of the #SAGAproject, funded by #CreativeEurope. #Archives #ClimateChange #ICA2025
- 🎥 Summer with the Archives: Episode 4 Leslie Hernandez introduces our education programme, which engages students of all ages with workshops on EU history, archives, memory, and citizenship. 🏛️📚 Watch: loom.ly/z42PYks #HAEU #EUHistory #Education #Archives
- 🛬Planning a visit to the Historical Archives in 2025/26? Take a look at our Research Guides, prepared by HAEU archivists to give you a headstart with your research! 🔗Explore here → loom.ly/6VllzlY #HAEU #Archives #EUHistory #EuropeanIntegration #ResearchGuides
- 🎥 Summer with the Archives: Episode 3 Photos, posters, interviews, videos — Audiovisual Archivist Juan Alonso shares how HAEU preserves these special collections and ensures long-term access to Europe’s visual and oral memory. 🎙️🎞️ Watch here: loom.ly/6VWTE9E #AudiovisualArchives
- We are excited that Portugal's Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries (DGLAB) is with us on the #SAGAProject, working to develop solutions for the protection and management of documentary heritage. Learn more about #DGLAB : loom.ly/Le-oTyk #CreativeEurope #Europeforculture
- 🎥 Summer with the Archives: Episode 2 🗃️ Archivist Valérie takes us through the collections: from institutional EU archives to private papers that capture the spirit of European integration. Watch now! 🔗 loom.ly/dErg-9s #HAEU #EUHistory #Archives #EuropeanUnion
- 📬 Stay connected with the Historical Archives of the European Union! Subscribe to our quarterly newsletter for the latest on: 📁 New archival deposits 🔍 Research resources 🎓 Fellowships 📚 Publications 📆 Events and more! 👉 Sign up here: loom.ly/pDomh4k #HAEU
