Can an app save lives? Corona-Warn-App has had a positive reception in Germany, even from digital rights activists like CCC Updates. It could mean more testing and fewer cases. Courtesy of Coda Story summerofsolidarity.eu/home/coda-stor…

What is it like be 20 in 2020? Our friends at Summer of Solidarity interviewed 20-year-olds across Europe to find out. summerofsolidarity.eu/20-in-2020

"The doctors found I had concussion from the beatings. I spent my 20th birthday, 15 August, in a hospital bed." Pavel was arrested and beaten after taking part in a peaceful protest in Belarus. Here he is in his own words: summerofsolidarity.eu/20-in-2020/bei…

"Borders were no longer the invisible lines of Europe that we easily hopped across. They were very real barriers preventing parents and siblings from being together," writes Nic Houghton, a Brit whose daughter was recently born in Germany. summerofsolidarity.eu/home/europe-bo…

Need new music? Check out our latest SoS Weekly James - Voices - made with euradio summerofsolidarity.eu/home/euradio-w…

"The pandemic creates splits and cracks in our societies against a backdrop of already existing feelings of insecurity, dread and being excluded or left behind. " OPINION: Georg Diez on why young people are so angry this summer summerofsolidarity.eu/page2/georg-di…

Pavel, 20, on his experience after being arrested in Belarus.

Come along on our e-road trip. A trip across Europe, with your eyes only: summerofsolidarity.eu/eroad-trip

From our partner Coda Story comes an incisive look at the app being used to mobilise Belarusian protests and action. The app is so widely-used that the government has been unable to take control of the channels. codastory.com/authoritarian-…

“Some welcome thoughts on how solidarity can overcome abuses of power” Eurozine with a very relevant piece for a world of Covid-19, protest movements and social unrest eurozine.com/check-control-…

“From time immemorial, people have lived in harmony with nature, and in my photographs I pay special attention to their surroundings.” Beautiful photos and interview from The Calvert Journal calvertjournal.com/features/show/…

“In the last years – in the last year even – we've heard things that we had never heard before in 30 years.” Balkan Insight on the rise of antisemitism in Hungary and Poland. balkaninsight.com/2020/09/11/ant…

Lukashenko was inaugurated today. Before the elections, Natalie Nougayrède interviewed Andrei Sannikov, who spoke about the campaign of civil disobedience, as well as Russia and the EU’s role in Belarus’ future. summerofsolidarity.eu/home/andrei-sa…

“Our self-awareness is growing.” Pavel turned 20 in hospital, recovering from injuries inflicted by the police during a peaceful protest in Belarus. summerofsolidarity.eu/20-in-2020/bei…