European Association of History Educators

On 30th June, EUROCLIO Executive Director Joke van der Leeuw-Roord and Project Manager Patrick Barker participated in an event hosted by the Eduardo Frei Foundation in The Hague focusing on democratic participation in Georgia. Joke van der Leeuw-Roord presented the  3 year EUROCLIO/Matra project Tolerance Building Through History Education to an audience of 25 persons with key expertise in the Southern Caucasus based in The Netherlands. The event coincided with a study visit from the largest party in opposition in Georgia; the Christian Democratic Movement, who were visiting The Netherlands to observe the functioning of local politics in The Hague and surrounding areas. The event was a good networking opportunity, and the presentation of the project received very positive feedback from organizers and participants, who were interested in the work being conducted by EUROCLIO and the Georgian colleagues from the Georgian Association of History Educators within the project framework. Topics of discussion included the role of democratic participation in building a functioning, sustainable democratic society and the role of education in this process. Further opportunities for cooperation with the Eduardo Frei Foundation working in Georgia will be followed up accordingly by the project management team. For more information on the outcomes of the event, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Between the 5th and the 7th of July, Tbilisi and the surrounding areas play host to over 100 history educators convening in Georgia to move history education forward, under the framework of the EUROCLIO/Matra project Tolerance Building Through History Education. International experts from the USA, Russia and Ukraine, as well as international observers from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey will meet with history teachers, professors and teacher-trainers from all over Georgia at two separate events.Select 'Read more' for more information. A full program of the GAHE annual meeting can be found here. A full program of the 6th authors’ and experts workshop can be found here.

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Between the 6th and 7th of July, authors and experts from all over Georgia will convene in Bazaleti Lake just outside of Tbilisi for the final authors and experts workshop within the framework of the EUROCLIO/Matra project Tolerance Building Through History Education. International experts Thomas Sherlock (Professor of Political Science at the West Point Military Academy, USA) Yulia Kushnereva (Former project coordinator for the EUROCLIO/Matra project Mosaics of Culture) and Iryna Kostyuk (former EUROCLIO project coordinator for the EUROCLIO/Matra project in the Ukraine (New Times, New History) will join the project team to share expertise and classroom ideas with the local participants. The last workshop will also present the final opportunity for worksheet peer-to-peer review before the editing process. The editing team for the project publication will be present to monitor the process and give feedback on the worksheet ideas. Worksheets on all of the developed topics will be presented with active classroom ideas, in line with the previous contributing expertise during EUROCLIO workshops. There will be international observors from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey also present at the event, furthering the international peer-learning environment. A full program of the event will be available online soon. For more information please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The Sixth and final authors’ and experts meeting will be held in Tbilisi, between 5-7 July 2010. In the coming months, there will be further focus on the outreach to new schools in the piloting of materials. The authors will now process the feedback from their peers and international experts, before presenting the final versions of developed materials, ready for editing after the last workshop in July. The focus of the next workshop will be active ways of implementing the concept of intercultural education and showcasing classroom techniques of using the developed materials to achieve the goals laid out at the start of the project. Experts from the Ukraine, USA and Russia will be invited for the workshop. The event will also coincide with the General Assembly of the Georgian Association of History Educators.