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The LVSA was founded in 1992 by 13 members, thus it will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2002. During this decade the number of members grew to 246. In March 1995 the Association officially became member of EUROCLIO. The LVSA with its central board in Riga, connects a number of project groups and working groups throughout the country that organise in-service training and seminars. The LVSA aims at bringing together creative people; promoting the development of history teaching in schools; facilitating the development and approbation of new curricula and textbooks for history teaching; contributing to history teachers' professional development and co-operating in international networks
EUSTORY is an European network of organizations that carry out historical research competitions for youth in their countries.
From 20 - 23 March 2013 twenty-nine organisers of national history competitions from twenty-two countries will gather for their annual EUSTORY network meeting in Riga.
The Soviet Story is a documentary film, made by the Latvian Edvins Snore in 2008, about Soviet Communism and Soviet-German collaboration before 1941. The film is sponsored by the UEN Group in the European Parliament. The film features interviews with historians such as Norman Davies and Boris Sokolov, Russian writer Viktor Suvorov, Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, members of the European Parliament and perpetrators as well as the victims of Soviet terror.
The Soviet Story is a remarkable film, which can be used as a functional tool for history educators teaching students in the higher forms in secondary education and history teacher students, to trigger discussions on controversial history in the classroom.
The DVD, subtitled in 30 languages, will soon be distributed free of charge by the Union of Latvians in Europe to persons or institutions interested in European history. History Educators are invited to send their mailing addresses to the national representatives of the Latvian Union in their respective country.
From October 21st-23rd 2010, VGD, the German Association of History Teachers in cooperation with Goethe Institute Riga and the Latvian History Teachers´ Association launched another cross-border conference addressing the topical aspect “A European culture of remembrance?” Presentations from both countries´ perspectives, as well as a number of workshops concentrated on the question which elements might present themselves as modules of a widely accepted European culture of remembrance. VGD´s five representatives aimed at looking into elements complementing the Holocaust, a topic that must be regarded as our painful legacy. They have put the aspects of the Enlightenment, migration, belief in progress, Christian Western civilization (thus including Russia more pronouncedly) and Industrialization forward for discussion – aspects that might be seen as hopefully more constructive for our societies. EUROCLIO is delighted to see the joint activities of its Member Associations and would very much hope for a continuation of this fruitful and lively discussion in such welcoming surroundings. For more information about this joint Conference, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Germany) and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (Latvia)
The history Teachers Association of Latvia is organising the annual "Summer Days" - courses for its members already for 14th time. This year more than 100 history teachers will meet in July 26-28 2011 in Aizkraukle- town which is lokated on river Daugava and has rich and interesting historical heritage. All the participants will act like experts testing a new History teachers’ professional development programme as well as sharing experience about practical classroom teaching. One day will be devoted to the studies of the historical sites in surroundings of Aizkraukle.
13th Summer days of HTA of Latvia with more than 100 participants took place in a small town Limbazi in North-Eastern part of Latvia in July 27-29. The theme of meeting was “History and Environment” and lectures and study visits were mostly focused on cultural and historical heritage and interesting environmental objects in Limbazi and Salacgriva areas. As always- hot discussions about actualities in history teaching and workshops were important part of courses. Summer days were supported by the local authorities, museums and schools. More active contact and exchange of information between HTA of Latvia and Estonia was re-established and two participants from Estonia took part in history teachers’ meeting in Latvia, but in August two Latvian participants went to Summer days in Estonia.
Traineeships available!