European Association of History Educators

Between May and November, the Bulgarian History Teachers Association has attracted over 240 teachers to the six Teacher Training Seminars in Vratsa, Sofia and Burgas. Now the time has come for final event in the three-year EUROCLIO/Matra project, European Dialogues, a Cultural Rainbow for the Future- An Inclusive and International Perspective on the Learning and Teaching of History in Bulgaria. In order to finalise the project in a special way, EUROCLIO invites the Project Coordinators for the final management meeting to come to The Hague. During four days the financial files will be prepared for the final audit, and up-to-date project information will be collected. Elements for the final report will be reflected upon, but also a Special Report (in the same style that has been done for EUROCLIO in Former Yugoslavia) will be drafted. Finally, as we are always looking not only backward, but also forward, possible new projects will be looked into. For more information about this management meeting, please contact Mr Patrick Barker at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

On 31st October and 1st November two seminars were organised in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. The audience consisted of a group of around 60 new teachers and the authors and editors teams. The Department of In-service Teacher-training at the St. Kliment Orhidski Building, the University of Sofia kindly hosted the event. EUROCLIO are very appreciative of the University’s warm welcome and participation in the event and would like to take this opportunity to thank the University for hosting the seminars. For many of the teachers it was their first chance to receive and explore a copy of the teaching handbook A Fair and Balanced History, 44 working sheets for active student-work with a multicultural approach. The audience expressed much vested interest in the handbook and noted the high quality of the teaching pack. They considered the topics to be new, innovative and exploratory but also remarked that they might be difficult to implement in the classroom. The overriding consensus was that the handbook was an exemplary approach to how textbooks can move away from the ideological sphere and discontinue the habit within Bulgarian history to write only about the “majority” victors’ history.

Read the full report here.

Click Read More for more photos of the seminar and some brief explanations of the activities that took place during the events in Burgas and Sofia. In four full-day seminars over 150 teachers participated.