Europe Remembers
Web platform and organiser portal for remembrance tourism
Client
- Europe Remembers
- History & Culture
- 2023 2026
Services
- Backend Development
- Frontend Development
- Search Engine
- UX/UI design
- Webdesign
The LRE Foundation (Liberation Route Europe) is an international non-profit network dedicated to the memory of the Second World War. KERN-IT had already rebuilt its platform, Liberation Route Europe, on its own stack.
In 2023, for the campaign marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, KERN-IT grafted an entirely new layer onto that foundation: Europe Remembers. A public campaign site and, above all, a portal where organisers (associations, museums, municipalities) publish and manage their own commemorations, plugged into the same backend and the same data as the existing platform.
Europe Remembers was not a rebuild, but a graft. Because the foundation had been modelled cleanly from the start, KERN-IT could add a whole new experience and a new audience without reconstructing anything: adapting the backend and the back-office, then creating two new front-ends. That is the concrete advantage of a data-oriented approach.
Today the portal brings together nearly 300 organisers, more than 800 events published across 13 countries, and around 28,000 visitors per month.
Launch the site
A portal for organisers
The heart of Europe Remembers is the autonomy it gives organisers. An association, a museum, a municipality or a tourist office creates an account and manages its commemorations end to end from a dedicated space, without going back through the central team.
The organiser's space brings together:
- Creation and description of its events: place, dates, format, visuals
- Status tracking and updates at any time
- Co-branded marketing materials to relay its campaign
Once approved, events automatically join the public calendar: the platform is continuously fed by contributions from the field, rather than by a single central editorial team.
Submission and moderation
Opening publishing to hundreds of contributors without losing control of quality is the role of the moderation workflow. Every event follows a clear validation cycle (draft, submitted, under review, approved or refused), and the team keeps control over what goes live.
The model covers the reality of commemorations:
- On-site or online
- Categories: commemoration, guided tour, music and theatre
- Country and region tagging, dates and time zones
Organisers are notified automatically at each review step.
A public campaign site
For the public, Europe Remembers is the portal of the 80th anniversary campaign: it gathers upcoming commemorations all across Europe and makes them easy to browse, on mobile as well as desktop.
The site was built for the campaign:
- Progressive web app (PWA), installable and fast
- Fully multilingual
- Sized to absorb the traffic peaks of key moments
The bet paid off: around 28,000 visitors per month and sharply growing organic visibility (12.4 million Google impressions over the last 16 months).
A calendar fed and steered
To enrich the calendar without relying entirely on manual entry, connectors to external sources (Normandy API, Visit Brabant) automatically import and synchronise events: titles, dates, locations.
On the team side, the back-office brings together:
- A CRM for organisers and partners
- Editorial highlighting of featured events
- A statistics dashboard
Everything needed to steer the campaign and measure its reach.
