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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

International Conference on Condition and Prospects of History Teaching in Southeastern Europe

Athens, April 7 (BTA spec. correspondent Petko Azmanov) - It will take decades of strenuous effort to eliminate the damage done by presenting historical events through stereotypes, to establish the values of democracy and tolerance, and to achieve conciliation in an area dominated by hostility and lack of understanding.

This was the conclusion of the participants in a two-day international conference on the condition and prospects of history teaching in the Southeast European countries in the light of the process of conciliation and stabilization in the region. The conference, organized by the Centre for Democracy and Conciliation in Southeastern Europe and held in Athens, ended on Saturday.

The forum was attended by over 100 university and school teachers and scholars from 11 countries, Bulgaria included.

The nationalist approach to history predominates in almost all Balkan countries, the participants agreed, discussing the way of teaching controversial and sensitive historical events described in the history textbooks.

The participants discussed the results of the 14 seminars held on teaching controversial and sensitive themes at the educational establishments in the countries of Southeastern Europe. It was announced that a set of aids for history teachers was in preparation, translated in the languages of all countries in Southeastern Europe.

The participants in the forum, which took place within the framework of a joint project for the history of Southeastern Europe, called on the government of their countries and all nongovernmental organizations to continue their support and grant funds for the attainment of all ambitious goals of the project.