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Bulgarian History Teachers Attend Matra Conference in Sofia
On the 16th of November, the EUROCLIO/Matra project in Bulgaria between 2006-2009 was invited to participate in an event hosted by The Netherlands Embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria to officially call an end to the Matra program for Bulgaria. The project European Dialogues ran for three years with the support of Matra. Participating in the event on behalf of the project and the Bulgarian History Teachers’ Association was Bistra Stoimenova, Assistant in Methodology of teaching History at the Department of in-service teacher-training at the University of Sofia. The event gave a good insight into the wide-ranging initiatives supported by Matra through the years. The event was a reminder of the capability of civil society cooperation with governments to achieve goals and address the collective challenges facing societies. In the case of the EUROCLIO/Matra project in Bulgaria, with the material developed within the project being used across the country and still used for training of teachers through the Bulgarian History Teachers’ Association. For more information on the Matra project or ongoing initiatives in Bulgaria please contact Jonathan Even-Zohar at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
On 19-20 September 2009, over a 100 History Educators from all over Bulgaria were able to participate in the Annual Conference of the Bulgarian History Teachers Association, hosted by the University of Sofia's Departement of In-Service Teacher Training, as part of the EUROCLIO/Matra Project "European Dialogues. A Cultural Rainbow for the Future". At the centre stage of the conference was the new Educational Publication "Fair and Balanced History". Authors gave workshops on how to work with the innovative material. All the participants expressed their gratitude to all involved in the project, for creating such an important addition to the countries' history education. Some pledges to start to use it in the week that followed! The conference was greatly enriched by the workshops given by International trainers Dean Smart (UK), Huub Oattes (Netherlands) and Tamara Eidelman (Russia). At the same time, the conference provided and opportunity for History Educators from Georgia, Macedonia, Romania and Turkey to participate as observers and shares their ideas. A full report, including observations from the regional observer, can be downloaded at this location.
Nikolina Tsvetkova, member of the Bulgarian History Teachers’ Association participated on behalf of EUROCLIO and the Bulgarian HTA in the Annual Conference of the