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The XIth ICCEES World Congress was held between July 21 and 25, 2025, hosted this year by University College London. The aim of the five-day international congress, offering a rich program, was to provide a forum for the most important current research examining the history and present of Central and Eastern Europe. Researchers, senior research fellows, university professors, representatives of political and economic stake-holders presented their projects and discussed the most important issues of the region’s past, present, and future in an interdisciplinary dialogue.

The first Central European History Convention (CEH-C) meeting was held between July 17 and 19, 2025, hosted by the University of Vienna. The aim of the three-day international conference, offering a rich program, was to provide a forum for researchers worldwide who study the history of the Habsburg Monarchy, Austria–Hungary, and its successor and neighboring states. Based on their research, participants discussed the possible interpretations of the region’s past from the Middle Ages to World War II in an interdisciplinary dialogue.

Research into the history of humanitarian actions prior to 1918 focuses primarily on the past of transatlantic countries; studies regularly omit the reconstruction of the humanitarian past of Eastern European empires, especially Austria–Hungary.

On 18 June 2025, the Dr. Ibrahim Rugova Book Corner was inaugurated in the Szabó Ervin Metropolitan Library of Budapest. Ibrahim Rugova is honored as the founder of the independence of the state Kosovo and played a key role in building democratic institutions in the country that broke away from Yugoslavia.

On 5-6 June 2025, the workshop „New Economic History of Central and Eastern Europe?” was held in Berlin. The event was organized by Gábor Egry and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

„I’m here today not to lecture but to listen to those of you from Bosnia and the region. We in the Trump Administration are willing to provide our good offices to improve conditions, but only if our involvement is wanted and warranted. […] What does this mean for Bosnia-Herzegovina? It means that we’re willing to listen to, and to work with, all affected parties.”