After four years of online meetings with the archivists of the Jesuit Conference of Europe, last year we envisaged a first in-person meeting in the General Curia, in February 2024.

The archivists meeting in the General Curia was the 20-23 February 2024, with 20 participants from 14 JCEP archives. In addition, we had two guests: Irene Petretti from the historical archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome), and Alessandro Corsi from Boston College (USA).

We had four working sessions on specific topics, with the aim of producing documents in the following months, which could be useful for the Jesuit archives:

• The first working session was dedicated to “The management of the archive”, led by Sergio Palagiano (ARSI archivist).

• The second working session was dedicated to the “Preservation issues in the archives”, led by Mauro Brunello (ARSI archivist).

• The third working session was dedicated to “Digitalization issues and digital archives”, led by Salvatore Vassallo (ARSI archivist).

• The fourth working session was dedicated to the “Book project – European Jesuit Archives, 1939-1945”, led by Camilla Russell (Publications Editor) by videoconference, with the collaboration of Rebecca Somerset, Damien Burke, Christian Taoutel, and Br. Brent Gordon SJ.

The last day we have evaluated the meeting. We intend to have the next online meeting of the JCEP archivists in May 2024. In addition, it was proposed to hold another in-person meeting in two years.

Fr. Raúl González Bernardi SJ

Administrative Director of ARSI