European Association of History Educators

During the weekend of May 7 to May 9 took place the European Civic Days 2010 in the Spanish city of Malaga. A frame created for the confluence of the diverse movements and organizations of citizenship and social issues along whole Europe. These European Civic Days counted with the presence of numerous experts and leaders of associative social and citizenship movements as speakers and lecturers in the event. The main topic to treat for these Days was how to activate all European’s civic and social feeling regarding a closer Europe, that has given examples in the last years of not being in a great moment of vitality since, for instance, has been shown in the different elections in a European level. Thus, across diverse conferences and workshops held during these days, numerous proposals and solutions for the above mentioned reality, have been shown manifesting the European Citizenship feeling  has great initiative and dedication launched for a well built net of people that are working for it.

The summer school “Emerging leaders for a new policy era: Educational leadership in transitioning societies” will be held in Georgia, Bazaleti Lake, June 27- July 3 2010. The event is organized by the Network of Education Policy Centers in collaboration with International Institute for Education, Policy Planning and Management, Georgia. Moreover, the Migration and Education Policy Lab for Education Policy Experts and Practitioners will be organized by the Network of Education Policy Centers in collaboration with the Research Institute of Education International in Brussels on 20th and 21th May 2010.

The Association for Teacher Education in Europe in partnership with the Association of Hungarian Teacher Educators organises the 35th Annual Conference of ATEE on August 26-302010 in Budapest, Hungary. The conference will be jointly hosted by Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest and Eszterházy Károly College of Eger. The theme of the conference is: ’Responsibility, challenge and support in teachers’ life‐long development’ . Papers relevant specifically to the theme of the conference and more generally to teacher education are welcome. You will find a more detailed description of possible contributions on the conference website, under  the’ Call for Papers’ section. The deadline for the submission of proposals and abstracts is: 15th April, 2010. For more information, please visit the conference website and download the Call for Papers

EUROCLIO Secretariat was invited by the eTwinning National Support Service of the Netherlands to attend the eTwinning Conference 2010 on February 5-7 in Seville, Spain. Blandine Smilansky from the EUROCLIO Secretariat joined the Dutch delegation of teachers participating in the event where about 500 teachers from all Europe gathered. The eTwinning Conference was a very stimulating opportunity to exchange with teachers and educational experts committed to innovate teaching approaches and practices through ICT-based project. A cooperation has been initiated and will be implemented in the future between the eTwinning Affiliate Network and EUROCLIO on the development of eTwinning projects using Historiana services and resources.