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   From 2006 to 2008

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

 
Former Members

Pekin Baran
George David

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



News

04 March 2010: Fellowship Programme for Policy Researchers from the Western Balkans Region. The European Fund for the Balkans, in cooperation with the Open Society Institute Think Tank Fund, is launching a call for applications for the Fellowship Programme for Policy Researchers from the Western Balkans Region. Click here to learn more! 

06-07 February 2010 – Upskilling Trainer of Trainer Workshop, Pristina: CDRSEE spent the weekend in Pristina and meeting up with old friends – an upskilling workshop was completed for teachers who were trained as trainers of their peers in June 2008. 10 teacher-trainers were invited back to improve their training skills, so that they could train their peers on multi-perspective and participative methodology to history teaching. The training was lead by Dr Bozo Repe and Dr Inez Sutton. Dr Sutton, in collaboration with her daughter Ruth Sutton (former member of the CDRSEE team) wrote a Users Guide to utilising such approaches in the classroom. This Users Guide was launched at this workshop. The 10 teacher trainers trained, will now lead 3 local workshops, and 10 in-school trainings, after which it is expected that 225 teachers will have been trained. For further information on the Joint History Project, please click here!

30 January 2010 - Kick off meeting in Serbia: The CDRSEE met with donors, stakeholders and project partners in Serbia to plan the implementation of the JHP country plan for Serbia in 2010.  The team is composed of the Association for Social History, key coordinator Dubravka Stojanovic, PR coordinator Biljana Stupar and CDRSEE staff. Milestones in 2010 will be a second edition of the successful... read more here!

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Antoinette Primatarova

In early 2002 Antoinette Primatarova joined the Bulgarian NGO Centre for Liberal Strategies.

From 1993 to 2001 Antoinette Primatarova served in different positions within the Bulgarian diplomatic service. From 1993 to 1997 as Bulgaria's Ambassador to Sweden, Norway and Iceland, from 1997 to 1999 as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and from 1999 to 2001 as Bulgaria's Ambassador to the European Communities. Upon the opening of negotiations with the EU in early 2001 she was entrusted with the position of Bulgaria's Deputy Chief Negotiator as well.

Antoinette Primatarova's pre-diplomatic experience was in the academic world of the University of Sofia. She was involved from 1979 to 1992 in teaching and research in the broad field of linguistic pragmatics, the main topics being Translation Theory and Linguistic Theory of Argumentation. From 1979 to 1981 Antoinette Primatarova was working for the Nordic department of the publishing House Narodna Kultura as editor. During the eighties and nineties she continued to promote Nordic literature and culture in Bulgaria, being herself a very active translator of Swedish writers and poets.

Born in Sofia in 1954, Antoinette Primatarova graduated in Germanic Studies from the University of Leipzig in 1978.

She and her husband Andrey have a son - Stefan.

Antoinette Primatarova is fluent in German, English, Swedish and Dutch and has hardly problems to understand Russian, Norwegian and Danish.

 
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