5000 concepts for Europe: update 2020/06/23
Back in 2017, I launched the idea of a book listing the “5000 concepts that EVERY European should know”…
In 2020, with COVID19 and its socioeconomic impacts filling so much of our horizon, a book like that is much more needed than it was three years ago.
To see why, and how, I plan to build and publish such a book, read the initial proposal and its FAQ.
To add your contributions to the 5000 concepts that every European should know, see below.
To support this project, please:
- invite everyone to add entries! The more DIFFERENT suggestions I receive, the better, and more useful the book will be!
- Donate via Paypal for “5000 concepts for Europe” (see the FAQs to know why), or email me to know more, and propose other ways.
As of today, the most voted suggestions for 5000 Concepts for Europe are…
more than one thousand! The full list is here, but these are the concepts that got at least three votes each so far:
- 8 votes:
- Charles De Gaulle
- Enlightenment
- 7 votes:
- Council Of Europe
- 6 votes:
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Reformation
- Romani People
- 5 votes:
- Circular Economy
- French Revolution
- Gdpr (General Data Protection Regulation)
- Holy Roman Empire
- Internet Of Things
- Iron Curtain
- Lisbon Treaty
- Marxism
- Net Neutrality
- Voti: 4
- Brexit
- Bulgaria
- Digital Single Market
- European Commission
- Feminism
- Feudalism
- Gender Parity
- If This Is A Man (Novel)
- Indoeuropeans
- Isaac Newton
- Maastricht Treaty
- Margaret Thatcher
- Numeracy
- Open Hardware
- Peace Of Westphalia
- Perestrojka
- Privacy
- Religious Freedom
- Renaissance
- Scouting
- Srebrenica Massacre
- Warsaw Pact
- World War Ii
- Yalta Conference
- Voti: 3
- Adolf Hitler
- Age Of Discovery
- Algorithm
- Angela Merkel
- Aristotles
- Balkans
- Bloody Sunday
- Carbon Capture And Storage
- Catherine The Great
- Celts
- Charlemagne
- Copyright
- Croatia
- Crusades
- Czech Republic
- Degrowth
- Equal Opportunities
- European Central Bank
- European Constitution
- Eurozone
- Family
- Frontex
- Identity Politics
- Impressionism
- Industrial Revolution
- Jeanne D’arc
- Judaism
- Konrad Adenauer
- Kosovo
- Lech Walesa
- Magna Charta
- Middle Ages
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Napoleonic Wars
- Nationalism
- Nato (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
- Nazism
- Nineteen-Eightyfour (Novel)
- Olof Palme
- Ottoman Empire
- Potsdam Conference (1945)
- Programmed Obsolescence
- Reconquista
- Resilience
- Roman Empire
- Russian Revolution
- Sdg: Sustainable Development Goals
- Seven Years' War
- Sinn Fein
- Slovakia
- Smart Cities
- Solidarity
- Spanish Civil War
- Stalin
- Tolerance
- Visegrad Group
- Winston Churchill
The best way to contribute YOUR suggestions:
First of all, remember that you can make as many suggestions as you want, including concepts already present in this list! Personally, I suggest doing it as follows. You will be surprised to see how quick (and fun!!) it can be:
- consider all the GENERAL topics you care about and/or know well (e.g.: modern art, Danish politics, geography, sci-fi, mediaeval history, software, whatever, really…)
- for each topic, figure out what you consider the most important concepts in that field
- enter all those concepts in the “5000 Concepts for Europe” form. If you thought of more than 5 concepts, just reload the form until you are done
- repeat for the next topic
Who writes this, why, and how to help
I am Marco Fioretti, tech writer and aspiring polymath doing human-digital research and popularization.
I do it because YOUR civil rights and the quality of YOUR life depend every year more on how software is used AROUND you.
To this end, I have already shared more than a million words on this blog, without any paywall or user tracking, and am sharing the next million through a newsletter, also without any paywall.
The more direct support I get, the more I can continue to inform for free parents, teachers, decision makers, and everybody else who should know more stuff like this. You can support me with paid subscriptions to my newsletter, donations via PayPal (mfioretti@nexaima.net) or LiberaPay, or in any of the other ways listed here.THANKS for your support!