More than 1.000 youth leaders and civil society organisations, in addition to influential policy-makers and intercultural experts from across the Euro-Mediterranean region met during the second edition of the Anna Lindh Forum in Marseille, from 4th to 7th April. After three days of debates, workshops and discussions, new actions were announced. These actions include a sustainable action for Syria by the Anna Lindh Foundation, partners the launch an Annual Week of the Mediterranean and Intercultural Citizenship Education as priority. The conclusions of the meeting can found at http://www.annalindhforum.org/conclusions.

'On a Common Path: New Approaches to Writing History Textbooks in Europe and the Arab and Islamic Worlds: The Case of the Mediterranean' is a publication of the project “The Image of the Other in European and Arab-Islamic Textbooks”, a partnership initiative by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, (UNESCO), the League of Arab States (LAS), the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), The Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures (ALF), and the Swedish Institute in Alexandria (SWEDALEX) in co-operation with: UNESCO Education Sector (Section for Inclusion and Quality Learning Enhancement) and the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research.

Within the "Our Shared Past" framework of the Social Studies Research Council and the British Council, EUROCLIO Senior Manager This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it has been invited to join a team of scholars and curriculum developers of the project "Our Shared Past in the Mediterranean", coordinated by the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at the George Mason University, Virginia, USA. The first meeting took place on 7-9 February, and the development of the material started with presentations and discussions on how to organise this curriculum around era's, themes and topics. More information is expected to follow around the summer period.

On 20th February 2013, EUROCLIO Executive Director Joke van der Leeuw-Roord was invited to give a speech on the role of education in ensuring the stability of the Mediterranean Region at the European Parliament in Brussels.  Joke van der Leeuw-Roord talked in front of an audience of members of the EU Parliament and national Parliaments from the EU and the 10 countries from the Southern and Eastern shores of the Mediterranean.