The Remembering Tomorrow programme initiates and funds projects to make the results of the academic inquiry more broadly accessible. The primary target audience is the general public, and especially younger generations.
Educational app
In 2023, the Federal Office of Justice commissioned the Institute of History Education and Memory Cultures at the Lucerne University of Teacher Education with creating a trilingual educational app for schools. The app content was created in cooperation with HEP Vaud.
The app is designed to show lower- and upper-secondary school students what the compulsory social measures and placements actually were, and how the practice became so extreme. Short videos of people who were affected by the measures form the heart of the app. They are intended as teaching tools, supplemented with source citations and illustrations. The material will give students an insight into what the victims endured, and the impact that the measures had throughout their lives. Ultimately it should also encourage students to take what they have learned and apply it in their own lives.
Timeline: The app is to be released at the end of 2024 in German, French and Italian. The official launch will take place on 23 January 2025 at the National Museum Zurich.
Touring exhibition
The touring exhibition is intended to illuminate this difficult period of Swiss history and prevent it being forgotten. Through careful explanation and contextualising of the compulsory social measures, the exhibition provides an insightful consideration of this history. The touring exhibition was created by Expositionen in collaboration with ZMIK Design (scenography).
The exhibition forms a bridge connecting past, present and future – and also allowing a critical assessment of where we stand now. It highlights the state’s responsibility to provide care without resorting to coercion, to adhere to the rule of law and to serve as the guardian of basic rights. The exhibition gives visitors the chance to understand this history and thus reduce the likelihood of it being repeated.
Timeline: The touring exhibition will open at the Lausanne History Museum in October 2025. It will then travel to various locations (Lucerne, Schaffhausen, Bellinzona, Bern) until the end of 2027.
Online platform
A dedicated online platform contains information and activities related to compulsory social measures and placements and the academic inquiry into these practices. The platform will provide a centralised location to collect and communicate the knowledge acquired as well as any current developments on the subject. Research results, the monuments known as the symbols of remembrance, teaching materials, testimonies and other media productions are to be clearly presented – along with supplementary information and keywords where necessary – and published in a way that is easy to find. In addition, the main content of the touring exhibition should be made available on the online platform at the latest when the exhibition has ended. All relevant information should be easily accessible for victims and others affected by compulsory social measures and placements, the interested public, and authorities, researchers and interested parties from abroad. The new online platform will be created in collaboration with the web agency Sturm und Bräm and the University of Bern (Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, ICFG).
Timeline: The platform will launch in autumn 2025.
Additional projects
A package of online learning material based on the work of the Independent Expert Commission (IEC) was released in 2019 – but only in German. The FOJ initiated and funded the project to update the content of the course and translate it into French and Italian. PH Bern was tasked with managing the project, which began in 2023 and was completed in September 2024.
- "Ausgegrenzt und Weggesperrt" [Marginalised and locked away]
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"Exclu, écarté, enfermé" / "Emarginati e segregati"
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Last modification 24.10.2024
