Project Team
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Agnete Holst Andersen
Annemarie Cottaar
Benny Christensen
Dorota Łyskawa
Dzintra Liepina
Elma HasimbegovicMA, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Co-editor of EUROCLIO Resource Book ‘Ordinary People in an extraordinary country. Everyday life in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia 1945-1990. Maria Kazamiaki
Marína Zavacká
Marta Kucner
Mounir Dadi
Semih Aktekin
Steven Stegers
Sylvia Semmet
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Chairman of the Board of the Danish History Teachers Association
Annemarie Cottaar (1955) studied Social and Economic History at the University of Leiden. In 1996 she was granted a PhD for her dissertation on the history of Caravan Dwellers in the Netherlands (1870-1945). She is coordinator of the Centre for the History of Migrants in Amsterdam and initiator of books and exhibitions about the history of migrants in the Netherlands. Her publications are about migrants in The Hague (1998), women from Surinam who came to the Netherlands in the 1950s (2003), about colonial migrants from the Dutch East Indies (2006) and guest workers from Morocco (2009). In 2003 she founded the Historical Image Archive on Migrants at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam with photo’s from private collections.
BA English, MA History, University of Copenhagen 1974. Senior Teacher at Fyns HF-kursus (Upper secondary school/gymnasium) Odense, Denmark. Board member Danish History Teachers’ Association, 1997-2003, Chairman of International Committee 1999-2003. Participated as an expert in Council of Europe training courses in Serbia 2001 and 2003. Project Manager and Expert in the project: “Towards a New History” (Serbia and Montenegro) 2001-2003, funded by The Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Participated as an International Expert in the EUROCLIO project History in Action-Planning for the future. Regional Approach for the Learning and Teaching of History. in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. (2005-2008).
Dorota Łyskawa, graduate of University of Wrocław; MA in German philology. She has been working for Foundation House of Peace for six months. Is responsible for writing and coordinating projects, preparing workshops. Her main interests are: the history of migration after 1945, collecting memories using oral history and storytelling methods, theory of propaganda, creative activity of Leni Riefenstahl. Currently involved in “People with letter P” project, in which is collecting and spreading memories of people who were working in Nazis labour camps in Wrocław.
Dzintra Liepina is a member of History Teachers Association of Latvia. She has graduated from the Latvian State University as historian and teacher of history and social sciences. She has got an MA degree in Education from the University of Latvia in 1996. She teaches history and political science at the Natalya Draudzina Gymnasium in Riga, acts also as a teacher trainer and is the author of several publications, teacher guides and teaching aids. Dzintra Liepina has taken part in several projects of EUROCLIO as a local coordinator and expert, she is a former Board member of EUROCLIO. In 2006- 2007 she was a President of the Board of the HTA of Latvia.
Elma Hasimbegovic was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1977. She graduated from history at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo. At Central European university in Budapest she obtained the MA degree in medieval studies. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate at the same university in Budapest. She taught history in a gymnasium of Sarajevo according to the Cambridge IGCSE (The International General Certificate of Secondary Education) program. She was also the author of the history textbook for grammar schools. She participated in the joint project of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia on history of everyday life in these three former Yugoslav republics during the socialist period. She is the author of one of the workshops in the textbook which came out from the project. Elma Hasimbegovic is employed as a curator at the Museum of history of Bosnia and Herzegovina where she was the author of one permanent and few temporary exhibitions.
Maria Kazamiaki joined EUROCLIO as trainee in April 2008 and since September she works regularly as a staff member on a part-time basis for 4-days a week. She has been involved in the project “Connecting Europe through History” organized and ran by Jonathan Even-Zohar and helped with organizing the Final Conference in The Hague and she is responsible for updating the website www.connectinghistory.eu. Moreover, she is involved in the dissemination of information via newsletters, assisting the organization of training seminars and the updating of contact information and strengthening EUROCLIO's Network. Maria holds a Bachelor Degree in Communication and Media Studies from the University of Athens and she has attended several courses in Marketing in the Radboud University in Nijmegen. She has worked in the Communication Department of the Greek Public Power Corporation as an intern and in the Marketing - Sales Departments of Citibank and Vodafone as a full-time employee. 
Marína Zavacká, PhD.researcher at the Institute of History, Slovak Academy of Sciences. Graduated from History and Philosophy at Comenius University Bratislava and from Modern History at Central European University, Budapest. Main area of studies: history of propaganda and of wider context of regime loyalties in the 20th century. She teaches related courses at Comenius University. 
Marta Kucner (22.05.83). She studied philosophy and culture studies on Wroclaw University (with student exchange on Universitat de Barcelona). Her interests, and subject she realized at university, are focused on gender and queer studies, post-colonial studies, and cultural diversity. In her non-formal education she took part in training „Value the Difference” (23-28.06.2009), training about cultural diversity and migration processes organized by SALTO in Lisbon. She’s been connected with House of Peace Foundation for a year now, where she coordinates projects, works with volunteers and gains experience in working in ngo.
Mounir Dadi is the managing director of Dadi Advies, a consulting firm that specializes in durable social change, with a special eye for social cohesion. In the past Mounir has consulted the municipalities of Copenhagen and Birmingham in recognizing and dealing with radicalization and alienation. Other programs implemented by Mounir focused on stimulating more cultural participation in a district of Amsterdam with inhabitants from various ethnic minorities which led to an improved pedagogical environment of a strict Christian school with mainly Muslim students.
Dr. Semih Aktekin was born in 1974 in Turkey. He was graduated from Faculty of Political Science in Ankara University, Turkey. He received a PGCE degree in History (1999), an MA degree in School Improvement and Professional Development of Teachers (2000) and a doctorate degree in Teacher Education (2004) from School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK. He is an assistant professor in history education department at Fatih Faculty of Education, Karadeniz Technical University in Turkey. He has given initial training for undergraduate and postgraduate students in history education department and social studies education department at Fatih Faculty of Education since 2004. He has also given in-service training in many state schools for history and social sciences teachers and adult educators in Turkey. He submitted many academic papers at national and international conferences on different aspects of history education. He was coordinator of the Study visit of Dutch History Teachers to Turkey, which was organised by EUROCLIO in 17 October-24 October 2007. He is Deputy coordinator and senior consultant of the project titled ‘Training Social Studies and History Educators for Multicultural Europe’ which was accepted part of Promotion of the Civil Society Dialogue between European Union and Turkey project (June 2008-December 2009). Currently he is the Project Coordinator in the EUROCLIO/MATRA Project A Key to Europe. Innovative Methodology in Turkish School History (2009-2012).
Steven Stegers was born in Smallingerland in the Netherlands in 1983. He graduated as Social Psychology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the State University in Leiden and did research at the History Department at Georgetown University in Washington DC. Steven is Project Manager at EUROCLIO – the European Association of History Educators. In this function he contributed to the implementation of innovative projects History Education in the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central Europe and the Euro-Mediterranean region. One of his main responsibilities is the overall coordination of the Historiana initiative in which EUROCLIO and partners develop a online tool on History and Heritage in Europe as alternative to a European Textbook.
Sylvia Semmet teaches History, English and History for bilingual classes at lower and upper secondary level at Goethe-Gymnasium Germersheim. Having been a teachers´ trainer for four years, she has also led further education courses for teachers of History. She coordinates the international relations of the German Association of History Teachers, which she also supports with translations and contributions to its nationwide magazine. She is active in border-crossing projects with History classes. She studied English and History at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and the University of Stirling, Scotland.During the General Assembly 2009 in Nikosia, Cyprus, Sylvia Semmet has been elected as the New Board EUROCLIO Member.