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European IST Conference “Towards High Quality in KA1 Mobility Projects for School

Education Staff – a Dialogue between National Agencies and Course Providers

2-3 March, Cologne/Germany

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What is EUROCLIO, the European Association of History Educators about?

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EUROCLIO Mission

To support the development of responsible and innovative history, citizenship and heritage education

as a way to promote critical thinking, mutual respect, peace, stability and democracy.

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Association Board

The Association Board in 2014 (representing members from Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Republic of Macedonia, The Netherlands and Turkey)

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EUROCLIO Secretariat

The EUROCLIO Staff in 2015: Jonathan Even-Zohar, Judith Geerling, Blandine Smilansky, Aysel Gojayeva and Steven Stegers (from left to right).

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EUROCLIO Ambassadors

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EUROCLIO Honorary Board

• Dr. André Azoulay (Morocco)

• Dr. Antoon de Baets (The Netherlands)

• Dr. Hans Blom (The Netherlands)

• Dr. Bodo von Borries (Germany)

• Dr. Youk Chhang (Cambodia)

• Dr. Elizabeth A. Cole (USA)

• Dr. Massoud Daher (Lebanon)

• Dr. Sir Norman Davies (United Kingdom)

• Dr. Thomas Devine (United Kingdom)

• Dr. Paul Ginsborg (United Kingdom)

• Dr. Maria Grever (The Netherlands)

• Dr. Judith Herrin (United Kingdom)

• Dr. Şükrü Hanioğlu (Turkey)

• Dr. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (Turkey)

• Bernard Eric Jensen (Denmark)

• Dr. Gunnar Karlsson (Iceland)

• Hon. Dr. Wim Kok (The Netherlands)

• Dr. Mart Laar (Estonia)

• Margaret MacMillan (United Kingdom)

• Dr. Mark Mazower (United Kingdom)

• Dr. Anthony Molho (Greece)

• Dr. Joze Pirjevecd (Slovenia)

• Dr. Diogo Ramada Curto (Portugal)

• Dr. Yudhisthir Raj Isar (France)

• Dr. Peter Seixas (Canada)

• Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga (Latvia)

• Dr. Thomas de Waal (United Kingdom)

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General Assembly

Members vote during the General Assembly in 2014 in Ohrid

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48 Independent Member Associations of History and Citizenship Educators and 22 Associated Members from 47 countries

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Dialogue, national, cross-

community and trans-border networking and

knowledge exchange

Participatory and

sustainable professional civil society

Professional capacity

building, developing and implementing innovative

teaching tools

Pillars of EUROCLIO work

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Eight Areas of Work

1. Governance 2. Training 3. Educational Resources 4. Dissemination 5. Research 6. Fundraising 7. Advocacy 8. Expertise Provider

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International Training

Provides cross-border professional capacity building for history, heritage and citizenship educators across a wide range of topics and methods related to innovative and responsible history education.

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Facts & Figures

• More than 40 international professional capacity-building conferences, seminars and workshops

• Close to 200 national and regional professional capacity-building courses, workshops, seminars and study visits, across Europe and beyond.

The French Ambassador gives a presentation to the participants to the Annual Meeting of EUROCLIO in 2014 in Ohrid

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The International Training approach embraces

• Participatory Approach (workshops, on-site learning, peer-training, etc) some examples in the next slide

• Emphasis on multiplying and impact (representatives of History Teachers Associations and tracking follow-up, reportage and networking opportunities)

• Trainings are connected to ongoing projects and key events

• Additional efforts for making new partnerships with local/regional organisations (OSCE, Waterloo200, Ikastola, etc)

• Additional support to facilitate participation from outside the European Union (Bosch Foundation, EVZ, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Anna Lindh Foundation euromed, which countries, why)

• Demand-driven close cooperation with local partners (HTAs, Networks, Educational authorities, heritage sites, etc)

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Few examples of International Trainings

2015- International Training Course on

the battle of Waterloo in Braine-

l’Alleud with 50 participants from

more than 20 countries

2014-International course on sharing cultural

heritage in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia with

150 participants from 50 countries

Seminar on Conflict and

Cooperation in Northern Ireland

2012

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The Annual Conference

The most international training course for history education practitioners from Europe and beyond.

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Lectures & Workshops & many more

Lecture Joke van der Leeuw-Roord

University of Groningen

Workshop Steven Stegers

Co-creation workshop for Historiana

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Training Provider Upcoming Annual Courses

2015 Helsingor, Denmark

20-26 April 2015

Theme: Roads to Democracy. How can History Education Pave the Way?

Local partner: Danish HTA

Expected number of participants: 120

2016 Belfast, United Kingdom

20-25 March 2016

Theme: Remembering the Difficult Past Through History Teaching

Local partner: Educators in Northern Ireland

Expected number of participants: 150

2015 Tallin,Estonia

21-24 May 2015

Theme: Multifaceted Memory

Local partner: Estonia HTA

Expected number of participants: 25-30

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And of course some challenges…

Present General Challenges • Teacher Leave to attend courses during workdays (need to always clarify learning

outcomes, and provide support to individual cases)

• Costs for participation – How to bring costs down by attracting additional donors? This takes a lot of effort?

• Competition with other course providers – How to make clear and good PR when competing with commercial course providers?

• Due to the efforts for support to individuals, inclusive geographical approach and close local partnership, it takes a lot of time to set up a successful professional training and development course within an annual conference.

• Local participation due to language barrier and ineligibility for funding.