MEM-ART UNI

Partners

The MEM-ART UNI consortium brings together universities, cultural institutions, and civil society organisations from Austria, France, and Poland. Combining expertise in Holocaust remembrance and education, Jewish history and culture, artistic practice, and intergenerational memory work, it develops new approaches to Holocaust remembrance across Vienna, Marseille, and Wrocław. MEM-ART UNI also works with external project partners who contribute additional expertise, networks, and support.

Consortium

University of Vienna

The University of Vienna is one of Europe’s oldest and largest universities, with 85,000 students and 10,000 staff members. The Department of Comparative Literature has a strong focus on Holocaust memory culture, offering participatory seminars for students on survivor testimonies, flight narratives, literary antisemitism and memory studies.

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Aix-Marseille Université

Aix-Marseille Université is the largest multidisciplinary university in the French-speaking world, with over 80,000 students and 8,000 staff across five campuses. The interuniversity Institute for Jewish Studies and Culture (IECJ), is one of only three university structures in France offering full programmes in Hebrew and Jewish studies, combining research and teaching on Jewish worlds. Within the Department of German Studies, research and teaching emphasize Franco-German cultural transfer, memory studies, and the history of exile. Both departments also run seminars and student projects on transnational Holocaust memory, exile history, and intercultural mediation.

University of Wrocław

The University of Wrocław is one of Poland’s largest academic institutions, with more than 40,000 students across 12 faculties. Its Department of Germanic Studies and Tadeusz Taube Department of Jewish Studies bring together expertise in literature, language, history, cultural studies, and media. The University maintains strong partnerships with academic, educational, and cultural institutions in Poland and abroad. Rooted in the diverse Austrian, Prussian, Czech, and Polish heritage of Silesia, it combines a strong regional identity with an international and European perspective.

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Franco-German Center of Provence

The Franco-German Center of Provence in Aix-en-Provence, founded in 1992, is a cultural institution dedicated to strengthening Franco-German friendship and cooperation. Alongside language courses and cultural events, the Center develops projects in education, mobility, youth work, art, intergenerational exchange, and remembrance. Working with local, national, and binational partners, it also draws on its Mediterranean location to foster dialogue between Europe and the Mediterranean region.

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MUSMIG Collective

MUSMIG Collective is a Vienna-based initiative dedicated to migrant self-historicisation. MUSMIG's central objective is the creation of a migration museum in Austria. Since 2019, historians, social and cultural scientists, artists, and activists have been working together to develop new approaches to documenting and communicating migration history. Through exhibitions, workshops, open labs, and audio formats such as Radio MUSMIG, the collective combines research, artistic practice, and public engagement. MUSMIG also brings extensive experience in working with students.

Vienna University Children’s Office

The Vienna University Children’s Office is a non-profit company established in 2006 and owned by the University of Vienna. Working at the intersection of universities, science, arts and humanities, and society, it has extensive experience in academic outreach and education, with a focus on science and technology, sustainability, democracy, and media literacy. The Children’s Office also leads the European project CU REMEMBER, which develops innovative, age-appropriate approaches to Holocaust remembrance, democracy, and human rights education for young people.

Arbeitsgemeinschaft Jüdisches Forum

The Arbeitsgemeinschaft Jüdisches Forum (Jewish Forum Association) is a Vienna-based association dedicated to promoting Jewish culture, history, and contemporary Jewish life in Austria. Since 2000, the association has published NU – Jüdisches Magazin für Politik und Kultur, which provides in-depth perspectives on Jewish culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Through its work, the association contributes to the visibility of Jewish perspectives and to preserving and communicating Jewish culture and memory in Austria.

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Jewish Welcome Service Vienna

The Jewish Welcome Service Vienna was founded in 1980 to reconnect Jewish Austrians expelled during National Socialism and their descendants with Vienna and to strengthen awareness of Jewish life in Austria. A central part of its work is the “Welcome to Vienna” programme, which invites former Jewish Viennese as well as second- and third-generation descendants to Vienna. The organization also supports participants in tracing their family histories and organizes study visits, school projects, and encounters with eyewitnesses and descendants.

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Fondation du Camp des Milles – Mémoire et Éducation

The Fondation du Camp des Milles – Mémoire et Éducation manages and develops the Camp des Milles Memorial Site near Aix-en-Provence, a former internment and deportation camp. Drawing on the history of the site and the Holocaust, the Foundation combines remembrance with education, research, culture, and international cooperation. Its educational programmes and workshops focus particularly on understanding and preventing racism, antisemitism, discrimination, and extremism.