A Conference about “child abuse in institutions in Europe and reparation for violence committed” is on the calendar of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on December 6th, at the resolve the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). The Conference “will take stock of child abuse in Europe”, as the Council explains in a release, partly in the context of religious and ecclesial institutions, and will examine the implementation of Resolution 2533, adopted in January 2024, entailing full reparation for any abuse committed against children and any maltreatment in public, private and religious institutions. The experience of Switzerland in the way it has dealt with cases of child abuse and compensated victims will be very thoroughly examined. On the same days (5-6 December), also in Strasbourg, the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe (OHTE) will hold its annual event about “History in crisi(e)s?”. The Ministers of Education of Luxembourg, Montenegro and Slovakia, as well as the Deputy Ministers of Armenia and Ukraine, will speak to the over 500 attendees and will address two questions suggested by the title: how studying historical crises can help us solve the present crises and whether history teaching is in crisis. A session will be spent on “Ukraine in Europe: a gap in historical narratives?” and will be attended by the Deputy Minister of Education and two historians from Ukraine, Yaroslav Hrytsak and Serhii Plokhiy.