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Members of the Board
   From 2006 to 2010

Elsa Ballauri
John Brademas
Erhard Busek
Costa Carras
Nikos Efthymiadis
Smaranda Enache
Selcuk Erez
Zdravko Grebo
Vlasta Jalusic
Maritta von Bieberstein Koch-Weser
Matthew Nimetz
Saso Ordanoski
Antoinette Primatarova
Zarko Puhovski
Gazmend Pula
Dusan Reljic
Pieter Stek
Neslihan Tombul
Rigas Tzelepoglou
Spiros Voyadzis
Aleksandra Joksimovic

 
Former Members

Pekin Baran
George David

Osman Kavala
Albert Koenders
Ivan Krastev
Fatos Lubonja
Richard Schifter
Veton Surroi



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16-18 December, 2011 – History Education Meeting in Belgrade, Serbia. The Joint History Project's History Education Committee finalised its push to expand this highly successful history book series to cover more recent times. During a two-day meeting in Belgrade, the editors and contributors discussed the publication within a larger circle of participants and received input from a renowned international expert in the field of Southeast European History. The fruitful meeting was the last in a series of three meetings made possible by the support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through the Institute for Sustainable Communities.

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2 – 4 December, Dynamic Teaching Tools Concept Meeting in Thessaloniki – Some of the most accomplished educators and researchers from the region and from the United States gathered in Thessaloniki to create the framework for a new dynamic teaching methodology tool. This talented, multi-faceted group will ultimately publish a manual that will provide teachers with the latest research on teaching methods and ideas on how these methods can be used in their classrooms. While this project builds upon CDRSEE's highly successful Joint History Project, the information and ideas within will not be limited to history classes, but rather will be focused on the art of teaching in a rapidly changing society. The manual will be translated into six different languages. This was the first meeting, with the next scheduled for spring 2012 in Tirana. The project is funded by the European Union, under the IPA Programme.

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1 December, 2011 – CDRSEE and the European Fund for the Balkans (EFB) will kick off a new project in December, organising a series of lively debates about controversial regional issues and broadcasting these debates via major local TV stations throughout the region. The idea of “Similarities Between Differences” is to foster an exchange of ideas and a real debate about the issues that are plaguing these countries, impeding EU accession and reconciliation. This is not your everyday talk show. This series will bring together untainted, well-respected and unbiased individuals from a wide field of social sciences, including anthropology, ethnology, cultural studies, applied ethics and many others. The topics will not be easy or comfortable, but the wider debates that spring from this series can lead to real solutions and a mutual understanding. More information on the EFB is available at www.balkanfund.org.

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Members of the Board of Directors

Erhard Busek

Erhard Busek has more than 35 years of political and governmental experience in his native Austria and involvement in European organisations.

Currently, Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe and Coordinator of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI), Dr. Busek earlier held a series of senior national and municipal positions in Austria between 1978 and 1995. Vice Chancellor of Austria for four years beginning 1991, he also held the ministerial portfolio for Education (1994-95) and was before that the Minister for Science and Research since 1989 .

Dr. Busek was initially elected to parliament in 1975, the same year he was appointed Secretary General of the Austrian People's Party. The following year he entered municipal politics and in 1978 became Deputy-Mayor of Vienna, a position he held for nine years.

Dr. Busek's professional career began in 1964 as a legal adviser to the Association of Parliamentarians of the Austrian People's Party. He then served as Secretary General of the Austrian Federation for Trade and Commerce (1968-75).

Parallel to his political career Dr. Busek ran a publishing firm specialising in economic matters (1968-75) and is currently the editor of the monthly 'Wiener Journal'. He is also Chairman of the 'Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe' and a member of an EU group on 'Education' under the chair of Edith Cresson.

Dr. Busek is the author of several books published between 1968 and 1997 and has had numerous other articles and papers published elsewhere. He is an Honorary Doctor of the Universities of Krakow, Bratislava and Czernowitz. He is a visiting professor at Duke University, NC, USA and the University of Agriculture, Vienna. He received a law degree from the University of Vienna in 1963

 

 
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