“Summer of Solidarity” is a summer-long collaborative journalism and creativity initiative collecting human stories from across wider Europe throughout the summer of 2020. We aim to document this once-in-a-lifetime season, feed our curiosity, and create a space where we can meet, discover and debate – at a time when Europeans can’t travel and interact as usual
Read/watch/listen below for the human stories in our Summer of Solidarity
Letters From My Sister
How One Hard-Hit Madrid Barrio is Fighting For Social Change
Our Summer of Solidarity Video
Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque
In Belarus, "the turning point was the pandemic"
SoS Weekly Jams #5
Architectural Delight in Bucharest
Song Laboratory
Learning From Nature to Build Homes
Walking With Pride in Amsterdam
Walkie-Talkie (text + audio version available)
La Vie Sauvage en Bretagne
Bulgarian Protests: Battles Over Anti-Corruption?
Politics of Contempt in Poland
How One UK Community is Fighting Food Poverty
The Violin That Survived
Why Democrats Need to Cooperate Better Across Borders in Europe
Creating a Fantastical World in Autocratic Russia
Roma Women Artists Making Their Voices Heard in Romania
In Leros, Lessons I Learnt From an Old Asylum Building
A Hot Belarusian Summer
The Locals Fighting to Save a Greek Island
How Lockdown Awakened My Memories of Bosnia and the War
SoS Weekly Jams #4
"Our vulnerability has been exposed"
Has Covid Revived Nationalism? Not So Fast
Women Versus Regime in Belarus
Paris' Cabaret Frigo
How I Rediscovered My Family Story During Krakow's Lockdown
Exploring Bosnia's Little-Travelled Landscape
"I have come to cancel my Turkish nationality"
Why this is a Simmering Summer of Youth Rage
How French Flea Market Dealers Are Rethinking Their Work
"Comment j'ai expliqué la pandémie à ma fille de 7 ans"
In the Refugee Camps of Samos and Lesbos
Witch Hunt: Rebellious Women in Europe, Then and Now
Europe Through the Eyes of Romanian Artists
In Italy with Giada Zhang
The Greek-Ghanaian Musician Uniting Two Cultures
