Decolonial Europe Day 2026

The fourth edition unfolds across four sessions in May 2026.

Decolonial Europe Day 2026 brings together activists, researchers, organisers and practitioners working on decolonial struggles across Europe. This fourth edition takes place as a series of four sessions, combining online and in-person conversations to create deeper dialogue, collective reflection and stronger connections across movements.

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9 May
Annual date
4
Thematic sessions
2026
Fourth edition
Event purpose
Create spaces for reflection, dialogue and knowledge exchange while strengthening connections between movements shaped by colonial legacies.
Accessibility

We consciously try to make the event as accessible as possible and treat accessibility as an ongoing practice of attention, care and improvement.

2026 Framework

Three editions completed, the 2026 programme now clearly framed as the fourth

In 2026, Decolonial Europe Day takes place as a series of four sessions combining online and in-person discussions. Each session is designed to deepen conversation around key decolonial themes while connecting movements and perspectives across Europe.

2023

First edition

The initiative created a shared public space to ask what it means to decolonise Europe, including by publishing a booklet with a wide variety of answers to this question.

2024

Second edition

The conversation deepened and organisations and individuals were invited to join a process of co-creating a collective.

2025

Third edition

The event became the first organised by the newly founded Decolonial Europe Collective.

2026

Fourth edition

The fourth edition runs as a four-session series in May 2026, combining online and in-person formats.

Programme at a glance

Decolonial Europe Day 2026 programme structure

Sessions are approximately two hours each, with the possibility of an additional 30 to 60 minutes afterwards for optional processing or dialogue. Sessions may be recorded when appropriate and agreed upon.

9 May 2026
14:00-16:00
Online

Session 1: Decolonial Europe Today: Power, Systems, and Possibility

This opening session launches Decolonial Europe Day 2026 and establishes the broader political and analytical framework for the series. It focuses on what decoloniality means in Europe today, how colonial power continues through institutions, borders and economic systems, and why a decolonial perspective matters for contemporary struggles.

14 May 2026
16:00-18:00
Online

Session 2: Beyond the Borders: Migration, Coloniality and Fortress Europe

This online panel explores borders as colonial technologies, racialised migration regimes, border violence, the externalisation of European migration control, and migrant-led resistance and solidarity networks across different contexts and border regions.

20 May 2026
14:00-17:00
Brussels, in person

Session 3: Decoloniality and Shifting Civic Spaces: Struggles in a Changing European Landscape

Held in Brussels, this session focuses on shrinking civic space across Europe, institutional pressures on civil society and social movements, funding structures and depoliticisation, and strategies of resistance and organising under constraint.

21 May 2026
16:00-18:00
Online

Session 4: From Silos to Solidarity: Organising Across Movements

This closing session brings together reflections from across the series and explores cross-movement learning between anti-racist, feminist, migrant, climate and labour struggles, including the challenges and possibilities of coalition-building, knowledge sharing and transnational solidarity.

What the day does
Exchange +
Bring decolonising initiatives, civil society organisations and other actors into conversation across contexts and geographies.
Amplification +
Give visibility to decolonial voices and analyses that are often marginalised in dominant Europe Day narratives.
Coalition-building +
Support the relationships and synergies that can continue beyond a single annual gathering.
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