Uncovering Neglected Truths and Outlining Legacies of Decolonization

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The UNTOLD Europe project is built around the need to analyse the implications of the legacy of colonialism on contemporary multicultural European societies in different areas: 1) public policies, 2) narratives of Europe, and 3) the digital world. The Action is aligned with Priority 3 of the Call and aims to deepen the analysis and raise awareness of how European colonialism operates today, with its different tools, the narratives used in public debates, the digital space, and specific public policies. The project is operationalized through the Recognizing-Retelling-Balancing (2RB) model, through which it pursues the following outcomes: 1) Tools and spaces to review the roots of colonialism in Europe’s memory, to recognize it in the current policies and practices, and to promote some reparation measures as an axis of transformative development policies are developed and established (Outcome 1: Recognizing colonial public policies). 2) Decolonial, anti-racist, gendered, and transformative narratives—especially on migration—enter the public debate in Europe, highlighting the incoherencies in its policies/practices and the risks they transfer to the Global South (Outcome 2: Retelling narratives of Europe). 3) Critical insights on the coloniality of the digital ecosystem and digital structures are generated to balance colonial racial and sexist inequalities (Outcome 3: Balancing the digital world). The project aims to benefit at least 180,000 European residents in Spain, France, Greece, Ukraine, North Macedonia, and Belgium, as final beneficiaries, by working with different target groups, including 1,680 activists; CSOs; scholars; academic institutions; artists; journalists; and young people. Our 2RB model will influence different levels of the socio-ecological model; encourage the connection between past, present, and future; contribute to the generation of evidence to incite and guide action; mainstream gender equality and non-discrimination; and use methodologie