European Association of History Educators

VGD, the German Association of History Educators, is at the moment cooperating with the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer, on the exhibition “The Salian Dynasty: Power in Transition”. The exhibition promises to be the highpoint of the “Year of the Salians-2011”. Unique precious items, treasures of book and ivory artistry, as well as archaeological finds will bring the 11th and start of the 12th centuries in its many facets to life in Speyer from April 10 until October 30, 2011. For more information, please visit the Museum website at www.museum.speyer.de

In November 2010, the German Association of History Teachers, in cooperation with Central German Broadcasting, is organizing a video chat bringing together students representing one school from each federal state with prominent eye witnesses in commemoration of the opening of the intra-German border in 1989. This chat, which is going to be repeated, marks the kickoff of an innovative project providing schools with authentic and descriptive materials for modern History education. Using the vast audio- and video archives of the broadcasting channel, a workgroup of teachers is going to develop and present ready-made modules related to the history of the German Democratic Republic online. The website will be open from September, 2011 (www.euregeschichte.de). Sylvia Semmet for VGD

Nova Doba, the Ukrainian History Educators Association has in April started to develop ready made teaching materials on the Multicultural History of Ukraine, in Partnership with EUROCLIO and EUSTORY. From 20-23August 10 authors came together in the village of Basivka Pustomyty in the Lviv region, to further the conceptualization of the project, the structure of the project publication and the materials. The authors presented a variety of well developed lessons related to multicultural Ukraine from Antiquity to Modern Times, based on the present Ukrainian curriculum. Topics such as Migration; multicultural Lviv, Kiev and Chernivski and Ukraine as crossroad for civilizations were presented. The EUROCLIO representatives Rumyana Kusheva President of the Bulgarian History Educators Association and EUROCLIO Executive Director Joke van der Leeuw-Roord were asked to share their observations and to give suggestions for improvement. The next steps in the project are a students competition on Multicultural Ukarine, piloting of materials in school and a further fine tuning of the materials for the publication, which can be expected mid 2011.

13th Summer days of HTA of Latvia with more than 100 participants took place in a small town Limbazi in North-Eastern part of Latvia in July 27-29. The theme of meeting was “History and Environment” and lectures and study visits were mostly focused on cultural and historical heritage and interesting environmental objects in Limbazi and Salacgriva areas. As always- hot discussions about actualities in history teaching and workshops were important part of courses. Summer days were supported by the local authorities, museums and schools. More active contact and exchange of information between HTA of Latvia and Estonia was re-established and two participants from Estonia took part in history teachers’ meeting in Latvia, but in August two Latvian participants went to Summer days in Estonia.

In 2010-2011 All-Ukrainian Association of Teachers of History and Social Studies “Nova Doba” in partnership with EUROCLIO, the European Association of History Educators and the international network EUSTORY carry out the educational project entitled “Multicultural history of Ukraine” with the support of the Delegation of European Commission to Ukraine. Holding Summer school for humanities departments’ students of pedagogical universities and young teachers entitled “National identity and cultural diversity’s reflection in history education” on July 4-7, 2010 in Lviv was an important stage in the project realization. The Summer school holding was initiated by the youth team of social studies teachers of Ukraine “Nova Doba – Prospects”. For more information about the common EUROCLIO-NOVA DOBA Project, please contact Petro Kendzor, Project Coordinator, at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it