Project regarding the EFA archives concluded
Over the last three years NISE has carried out a project funded by the European Parliament at the behest of the Centre Maurits Coppieters (CMC). Its subject was situation for the archives of the parties assembled in the European Free Alliance (EFA).
For more information about the project, see here.
With the help of surveys, interviews and visits on location, a comprehensive report was drawn up. A publication, The need for and the needs of archives. Guide to the archives of the member parties of the European Free Alliance, was produced on its basis, as second issue of the NISE Proceedings series.
The project has also resulted in a database and an archival manual.
The data gathered on the archives, parties and holding institutes were made public at the database on the NISE website.
The manual was also made available on the website, kickstarting in the process a new website section called Expertise and Information Centre (EIC). It contains guidelines to the preservation and management of nationalist and regionalist parties.