Fourth Advisory Board Meeting of the Georg Eckert Institute

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The members of the Georg Eckert institute met on 10 November in Braunschweig, Germany. They were welcomed by the director, Simone Laessig,who informed them about the results of 2011, a special year as it was the first Year the Institute has been operating within the framework of the Leibnitz Academic community. The profile of the institute is now firmly in research and several research projects were explained. The German/Polish Textbook Committee will celebrate its 40 years anniversary in 2012 with a big conference. The Committee is since 2007 working on the possibility of an ordinary textbook series for the agegroup 12-16, however as a cross-border production, taking in account the German as well as the Polish curriculum requirements and with a special focus on the history of Poland and Germany. The Committee launched a commercial tender for this textbook series, but, although the common textbook notion is heavily supported by the political leadership of both countries, publishers were not eager to step in the project. Dr Robert Maier informed the group of the two EUROCLIO projects, Historiana and  Tolerance Building Through History Education in Georgia, he has been on behalf of the Georg Eckert Institute involved in. EUROCLIO Executive Director Joke van der Leeuw-Roord is member of the Advisory Board. More information of the excellent work of the institute please take a look on the website of the Georg Eckert Institute.