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.
Decolonial Europe Day 2026
The fourth edition unfolded across four sessions in May 2026.
Decolonial Europe Day 2026 brought together activists, researchers, organisers and practitioners working on decolonial struggles across Europe. The recordings are now available as an archive of the fourth edition: four conversations on power, borders, civic space and solidarity across movements.
9 May
Annual date
4
Thematic sessions
2026
Fourth edition
Recording archive
Return to the conversations, share them with others, and use them as political education material for collective work beyond the event.
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 took place as a series of four sessions combining online and in-person discussions. Each session deepened conversation around key decolonial themes while connecting movements and perspectives across Europe.
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 ran as a four-session series in May 2026, combining online and in-person formats.
Watch the recordings
Decolonial Europe Day 2026 session archive
The fourth edition is now available to revisit. Each recording is paired with a short context note drawn from the session summaries, so visitors can move through the archive as a guided political education space.
Decolonial Europe Today: Power, Systems, and Possibility
The opening session challenged official Europe Day narratives and asked what Europe means when colonial extraction, debt, borders, institutions and racial capitalism remain present-tense structures of power.
Filipa Pontes is a visual artist and educator exploring drawing, decolonial learning and collaborative practices beyond Eurocentric narratives. Seema Syeda is a transborder activist and commentator, and Advocacy and Communications Director at the migrants' rights organisation JCWI. Raouf ben Mohamed is Africa regional coordinator of Debt for Climate and a researcher in international public law.
Beyond the Borders: Migration, Coloniality and Fortress Europe
This conversation framed European migration policy as a border regime built through racialisation, detention, deportability and the outsourcing of violence, while centring lived experience and migrant-led resistance.
Anila Noor is an expert in policy and social change, serving as an advisor and advocate. Mustapha Jarjou is a human rights activist and advocate for a borderless Africa and freedom of movement. Dr. Emmanuel Achiri is a scholar-activist and militant working at the European Network Against Racism. Eugenia Gyamfi is the founder of the Belonging Beyond Borders Collective and a dedicated advocate for migration justice.
Decoloniality and Shifting Civic Spaces: Struggles in a Changing European Landscape
The Brussels session treated shrinking civic space as a decolonial question: who gets to speak, organise, receive funding, shape policy and practise solidarity when institutional language does not necessarily shift power.
Julie Pascoet is Policy and Advocacy Manager at ENAR, bringing 15 years of extensive leadership and expertise in advancing racial equality at the European level. Hilmi Tekoglu contributes to shaping and advancing SOLIDAR's work on civic space and democracy at EU level in relevant policy processes. Tyala Ifwanga is an Environmental Policy Specialist at Fern in forest governance and climate justice.
From Silos to Solidarity: Organising Across Movements
The closing session asked how movements can move beyond isolation without flattening difference, building solidarity as a practice of connection, translation, endurance, care and mutual responsibility.
Dina Ntziora is a cultural manager and community engagement producer passionate about making places more enjoyable, participatory, equitable and sociable. Jana is a Global and Global North coordinator for Debt for Climate (D4C).
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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