ANNOUNCEMENT: Publication of CoLeCo 25-26 Student Blogs

(image: UPF Barcelona's campus of the 'Ciutadella', where the peak event took place)

After almost ten months of hybrid, online, and in-person collaboration, the individual and collective blog posts produced by students from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), CY Cergy Paris Université, the University of Ljubljana, and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel are ready to be published over the coming weeks.

We begin with a contribution by Klara Babić, entitled The Role of Telecommunications in Establishing the New Authorities of the Slovene National Government at the End of the First World War and the Dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Her contribution will be followed by those of her fellow students and colleagues across the EUTopia network. The Ljubljana students worked under a common thematic umbrella in 2025-2026 (From a state of war to a state of peace via (new) communication technologies and media: the establishing of authorities, institutions, laws and the reframing of constitutional values).

This year's theme, “The End(s) of War”, has inspired students to explore a wide range of topics from international, European, transnational, constitutional, regional, and even municipal perspectives. In keeping with the EUTopia alliance's commitment to multilingualism, several contributions also highlight the importance of national languages in shaping legal concepts and, more broadly, political and legal culture.

At the heart of the EUTopia CoLeCo blog is the discussion of a legal or legally relevant source. Students are invited to communicate their findings to a wider audience of peers while adhering to established academic standards of citation and attribution. At the same time, the digital format of the blog offers opportunities to move beyond the traditional academic paper by integrating historical printed sources, images, videos, and other forms of digital content.

We hope that these contributions will not only showcase the diversity of legal-historical research undertaken within the Connected Learning Community, but also stimulate further discussion about the many ways in which societies experience, regulate, and remember the end of conflict.

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