Founded in 2016 by four friends disillusioned by how traditional media in the Netherlands covered Europe, Are We Europe is now an established publication with a dedicated team based in Brussels.The platform works with more than 800 storytellers from across the continent to explore the "exceptional and everyday Europe", past the impersonal policy lingo coming from the European Union. Its website states: "What can the death of an Irish coastal town, evacuated due to erosion, teach all of us about climate change? How are the lives behind the headlines of Poland's LGBT-free zones? And who are the selfie-taking modern witches of Romania?"Are We Europe's founders are, as editor-in-chief Anneleen Ophoff states, from the 'Erasmus exchange program generation': "National borders in Europe aren't as distinct as they used to be. We can study across borders, we can fall in love across borders. But there was no media platform for those cross-border stories."Moreover, the founders wanted to provide an international podium to young journalists, "from whom we don't hear as much in traditional media". Are We Europe coaches new generations of reporters in producing their stories.Are We Europe publishes from four to six issues a year, both online and in print. Each issue approaches a broader theme: climate change, elections, colonialism, queer life, or, more recently, disinformation. Whatever the subject matter, the question is always: how can we have a more inclusive and complex understanding of the people who live on this continent?