Reimagining Europe stems from the research conducted within the project Memoirs - Children of Empire and European Post-memories (ERC) and continued in the project Maps - European Post-memories: a post-colonial cartography (FCT), which analysed the colonial memories inherited by the children and grandchildren of the generation that lived the decolonization processes of territories dominated by Portugal, France and Belgium in the African continent - Congo, Algeria, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe.

This is a very diverse group of people - children of returnees, pied noir, repatriates, ex-combatants of the colonial wars, ex-colonisers, ex-colonised - who have a common heritage: they saw the lives of their relatives impacted by a moment in history. This heritage is marked by an introduction of revolution in their lives, in their countries, and in their identities, resulting in the diverse narratives present today. Through the use of interviews and comparative analysis of artistic productions in Portugal, France, and Belgium, we examine the presence of their memories, silences, and interrogations, either in their everyday experience or through the diverse narratives that have been emerging since the 2000s in the fields of literature, cinema, music, performing arts and visual arts. The analysed personal histories and artistic works are at the forefront of the European postcolonial debate and are defining new forms of a post-national European citizenship. This invites us to rethink the heritage of colonial memory as a fundamental part of European identity and to reimagine Europe.