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2-3 July 2008: CDRSEE at the final conference for the “European Young Journalist Award”. The Center’s executive director, Nenad Sebek, was invited to speak at the closing conference for the European Young Journalist Award, which took place in Ljubliana on 2-3 July and was organised jointly by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Enlargement and the European Youth Press Association. The conference allowed for a productive debate between 400 young journalists on topics such as mobility in the ‘enlarged Europe’, identity issues, or cultural interaction, with representatives from media and politics as well as researchers and specialists on EU-related topics. Following the conference, Mr. Jan Truszczyński, Deputy Director-General of DG Enlargement presented all national winners with an award.

13 July 2008 - CDRSEE rocks EXIT! What do you take with you if you are performing at one of Europe’s most happening, funky, energetic and diverse music festivals? A guitar…? Groupies and roadies…?….a list of the most ridiculous backstage demands you can think up? ….well, if you are the CDRSEE, you take sticky syrupy pastries! Click here for the full story and more photographs.

July 2008 - Joint History Project Teacher Training successfully completed in Albania. After kicking off with the training of trainers’ workshop in Tirana in December 2007, 5 local teacher training workshops have successfully taken place in 5 different locations across Albania, between January and July 2008. To download the Albanian language edition of the workbooks free, please click here.

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JHP Athens Conference

Historians from 11 SEE Countries
Discuss Teaching Methods, Content

Athens, April 5 (BTA exclusive by Petko Azmanov) - An international conference on history teaching in Southeast Europe has gathered here over 100 lecturers, experts and scholars from 11 countries in the region. The two-day forum is organized by the Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe and is sponsored by the British Foreign Office.

The participants will discuss the results from the 14 seminars on teaching sensitive and controversial issues in the history of Southeast Europe, the role of the teachers in overcoming outdated views about past events on the Balkans and incorporating regional perspective in the analysis of historic events.

The Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe is a nongovernmental organization established in October 1998 by private citizens from within the region. It aims to foster democratic, pluralist societies and market economies that operate within the framework of the law. Programs in the fields of education, the environment, market institutions and economic, social and cultural co-operation are of particular interest to the Center.

The goal of the Southeast European Joint History Project has been to revise ethnocentric history textbooks, avoid the reinforcement of stereotypes and offer alternative methods for the teaching of controversial issues. According to the organizers, such stereotype-free history can be used as a solid basis for reconciliation and tolerance in the region. GG