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Special Report Published; 3 Years of European Dialogue in Bulgarian History Education
After 3 years of the EUROCLIO/Matra project 'European Dialogues' in history education in Bulgaria between 2006-2009, the project yielded an impressive publication showcasing the potential for an inclusive and multiperspective approach to teaching history in the multicultural country of Bulgaria. Whilst the project produced many sound results, training hundreds of Bulgarian history educators and involving colleagues from all over Europe to produce an exemplary teaching handbook, there remained many challenges at the end of the project that could not be addressed due to the project funding concluding in 2009. The Special Report has been collaboratively produced by Journalist Bettie Jongejan and the project coordinating team to show the successes and remaining challenges laid bare by the project. The report will be used in the future to pursue future project opportunities but also show the exemplary approach to producing an effective teaching handbook for use in a multicultural environment, and an example of EUROCLIO's work in both producing material and training educators to use best-practice educational material.
d November, the Bulgarian History Teachers Association has attracted over 240 teachers to the six Teacher Training Seminars in Vratsa, Sofia and Burgas. Now the time has come for final event in the three-year EUROCLIO/Matra project, European Dialogues, a Cultural Rainbow for the Future- An Inclusive and International Perspective on the Learning and Teaching of History in Bulgaria. In order to finalise the project in a special way, EUROCLIO invites the Project Coordinators for the final management meeting to come to The Hague. During four days the financial files will be prepared for the final audit, and up-to-date project information will be collected. Elements for the final report will be reflected upon, but also a Special Report (in the same style that has been done for 
On 31st October and 1st November two seminars were organised in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia. The audience consisted of a group of around 60 new teachers and the authors and editors teams. The Department of In-service Teacher-training at the St. Kliment Orhidski Building, the University of Sofia kindly hosted the event. EUROCLIO are very appreciative of the University’s warm welcome and participation in the event and would like to take this opportunity to thank the University for hosting the seminars. For many of the teachers it was their first chance to receive and explore a copy of the teaching handbook A Fair and Balanced History, 44 working sheets for active student-work with a multicultural approach. The audience expressed much vested interest in the handbook and noted the high quality of the teaching pack. They considered the topics to be new, innovative and exploratory but also remarked that they might be difficult to implement in the classroom. The overriding consensus was that the handbook was an exemplary approach to how textbooks can move away from the ideological sphere and discontinue the habit within Bulgarian history to write only about the “majority” victors’ history.