• publishing on-line digital versions of the documents, visual and audio-visual materials, as well as the photographs of objects from the period of Polish transformation;
• granting access to the materials on the modern Polish history for the wider public and the researchers; 
• saving the heritage of the first years of transition.

Both Chancelleries declared full support and cooperation in realising the project and its dissemination, i.e. organisation of conferences and seminars devoted to the first years of Polish post-socialist state.

The conference Arhivele memoriei: Comunismul românesc din perspectiva istoriei orale (Memory archives: Romanian communism from the perspective of oral history) was organised by CNSAS (Romanian acronym for The National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives) in partnership with Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Bucharest, on 23 October 2013. The event was financed by the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung – Romania Office. This was the first national conference of a series of similar events held under the label of Memoria trecutului recent (The memory of the recent past). It aimed at bringing together those institutions and NGOs involved in projects regarding the creation and storage of oral history archives, and their use for academic and public purposes. A significant part of the papers presented dealt with methodological issues regarding the use of oral history sources in studying the communist regime and opposition towards it from multiple perspectives. Other speakers touched upon the use of oral history in public projects (such as museums) dealing with the memorialisation of the communist past. Several researchers from the Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu Centre of Oral History of CNSAS spoke about their oral history archive and addressed specific methodological issues concerning the use of this type of historical sources for studying the communist regime and the means used by the Securitate to repress any form of opposition towards it. Finally, some of the speakers underlined the importance of oral history interviews, and of the Oral History Collection at CNSAS in particular, in achieving a better and more nuanced understanding of the anti-communist opposition, as the focus on particular cases illustrates the ethnic differences, the gender particularities, and the other specific circumstances which influenced the way in which the Securitate dealt with each case. 

In the context of the ninetieth anniversary of Monica Lovinescu’s birth, Oradea University Library together with the Faculty of Letters of the University of Oradea organised on 19 November 2013 the conference “Monica Lovinescu–vocea de argint a exilului românesc” (Monica Lovinescu: The silver voice of the Romanian exile community). The speakers were professors and librarians of these two institutions, who spoke about Monica Lovinescu and her literary activity and also about the Monica Lovinescu and Virgil Ierunca Collection housed by Oradea University Library. The conference was followed by listening to a recording with Monica Lovinescu’s voice from the archive of RFE. At the same time, an exhibition with Monica Lovinescu’s books and other invaluable items from the Monica Lovinescu and Virgil Ierunca Collection was opened in the lobby of Oradea University Library (Pop 2013).

Lajtha László zeneszerzői hagyatéka egy klasszikus műveltségű, polgári értelmiségi, a szocializmus korát megelőző kozmopolita és nemzeti kultúra megőrzése érdekében vívott küzdelmét dokumentálja. Lajtha, aki a kommunista hatalomátvétel idején már nemzetközileg elismert zeneszerzőnek számított, haláláig igyekezett fenntartani kapcsolatait a nyugat-európai műveltség képviselőivel, valamint a hivatalosan elnyomott vallásos és határon túli kisebbségi kultúrák szereplőivel is.

The website illustrates the life path and evolution of Franjo Tuđman’s ideas. Tuđman was a historian and politician who was twice sentenced to prison and banned from engaging in any public activity because he published and defended the results of his historical research, which contradicted the prevailing narrative promoted by the regime. The website contains digitised photographs, excerpts from Tuđman's diary, manuscripts and published works. The material testifies to his academic and political activities and his transformation from a relatively high-level communist official to a party dissident and finally the leader of the political opposition which overthrew the communist regime in Croatia.

Jerzy Ludwiński Archive at the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum is a permanent exhibition which presents the achievements and works of Jerzy Ludwiński, as well as some items that belonged to him. Ludwiński was one of the most important neo-avant-garde critics and theoreticians in the 1960s and the 1970s. He was a visionary, predicting the evolution of art in a post-art epoch. The exposition is completed with the works of artists befriended with Ludwiński or those who developed his ideas. Gathered materials belong to the Wroclaw Contemporary Museum and to the Zacheta Lower Silesian Fine Arts Association. At the same time, Jerzy Ludwiński Archive serves as a repository, as well as a research space, devoted to developing further reflection on current art.

The Archives of Transition 1989-1991 is a project coordinated by the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland and the Chancellery of the Senate of the Republic of Poland. The project aims at creating a public registry of all materials, archives, library, cultural institutions and museums in possession of materials concerning the period of Polish political and social transformation. Archives of Transition consists of mapping the potential partners, researching the content of their collection and putting them in digital registry. The core of the collection of the Archives of Transition are the documents from both Chancelleries obtained from former politicians and activists, representing changes in Polish political, cultural and social context. 

Velid Đekić's book Red! River! Rock! deals with the Rijeka rock scene during 1960s. Đekić comprehensively presents the performers, dance halls, composers, instrument makers, disc-jockeys and photographers who formed the rock scene. The book testifies to the fact that young people in Rijeka were pioneers of rock 'n' roll not only in Yugoslavia but among other socialist states in Europe as well. Although Rijeka was in a monolithic one-party state, rock 'n' roll was a window to the West for the city’s youth.

The book shows that thanks to rock 'n' roll, young people expanded their horizons through a different form of entertainment than those who propagated communist authority and openly defied the imposed framework. Ultimately, the book functions as a sort of musical lexicon because it provides extensive information about the line-ups of bands, the years of their foundation and dissolution, repertoires, popularity and song-writing.

In the context of the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Oradea, the Faculty of Letters and the Faculty of History, International Relations, Political Sciences, and Communication in partnership with the University Library organised on 24 May 2013 a round-table discussion under the title “Literature and document” in the memory of Monica Lovinescu and Virgil Ierunca. The event moderator was Nicolae Manolescu and the among the guests were Lilian Zamfiroiu and Mihnea Berindei, the other two personalities involved in the donation of the Monica Lovinescu and Virgil Ierunca Collection to Oradea University Library.

The speakers told the audience about the circumstances in which the collection reached Oradea in the spring of 2010 and the role of the two collectors in supporting Romanian intellectual dissidents and their cultural opposition to the communist regime. Consequently, one of the speakers remembered the conditions in which the truck from Romania managed to reach and park outside Lovinescu and Ierunca’s house on a narrow street in Paris, how the books were loaded into the truck, and the long way from Paris to Oradea. Lilian Zamfiroiu spoke about his role in facilitating the donation to the University Library due to his privileged relation with Nicolae Manolescu, as he thought it would be a wonderful present for the new headquarters of the library. Nicolae Manolescu and Mihnea Berindei focused on the activity of Monica Lovinescu and Virgil Ierunca at RFE and stressed their invaluable support for Romanian dissidents and their contribution to undermining communist rule with the force of their words and moral encouragements for those who chose “to live in truth” (Editorial Jurnal bihorean 2013, 2).