EUSTORY:
1. is an informal, international network of non-governmental organisations carrying out historical research competitions for youth in different European countries,
2. creates space for encounters and facilitates dialogue on shared European history and future in regular international youth seminars,
3. promotes the significance of history for a common European future through international conferences and workshops.

EUSTORY currently connects 25 civic organisations from 25 European countries. The mandate of EUSTORY is to view European history from the grass-roots and to recognise the vast diversity of experience. Opposing the abuse of history as an ideological weapon, EUSTORY emphasises the view of history as a workshop for intercultural understanding in Europe. This view is laid down in the core document of the EUSTORY network, the EUSTORY Charter. EUSTORY is therefore not only a meaningful initiative of historical grass-roots work in Europe, but also makes an important and pioneering contribution to European efforts toward peace and tolerance.

Since the EUSTORY network was founded in September 2001 on the initiative of the Hamburg-based Körber Foundation, some 190,000 youth have already participated in EUSTORY history competitions with about 85,000 contributions. In addition to those involved in the individual national member organisations, there are more than 2,500 teachers, experts, scholars and volunteers who give their time to EUSTORY and its projects.