Before we begin, we would like to introduce ourselves. We are the UPF team participating in this year’s EUtopia Project: Manel Bautista, Aurora Peggion, Greta Pescosolido, Isabelle Hannam, Eduardo Córdoba, Lauren Ferrie, Annika Cross, Ellie Cullen and Guillem Marcer. This post is dedicated to a global assessment of our Peak Event presentations: “From Internment to Reparation: The French State and Spanish Exiles” by Aurora Peggion, Manel Bautista and Greta Pescosolido. “The Repression of Republicans During and After the Spanish Civil War” by Lauren Ferrie, Annika Cross and Guillem Marcer ‘’The Foundations of New Europe after WWII: The Case of the European Coal and Steel Community’’ by Isabelle Hannam, Ellie Cullen, Matilde Gremmo and Eduardo Córdoba Why did you join? Our participation in the EUtopia Project began with an invitation from our professor, who introduced us to the initiative at the beginning of the academic year. The idea of joining a transnational learning...
Our Peak Event report begins a good few days before the actual Peak Event. In fact, it begins on a relatively cloudy, cold and (thankfully) rainless Tuesday morning in front of our Faculty in Ljubljana, where we, each armed with a suitcase and a backpack, filed onto a shuttle van which was to take us to Trieste airport. And thus, at seven in the morning, our great 10-hour odyssey to Barcelona officially began. We made it to our destination with minimal difficulties, which - for the stretch of Slovenian highway leading us there, which is notorious for traffic jams - was an incredible blessing. We got there so early, in fact, that the check-in counters weren’t even open yet, so we used up our wait-time to eat pre-packed sandwiches and chug from our water bottles before we had to go through security. Luckily, Trieste airport is quite small, so once our bags were tagged and taken away we got through the metal detectors and to our gate in no time. We then collectively ...