EuroClio - Inspiring History and Citizenship Educators

SENSEI Thoughtful Thursdays 9
2025-09-25 15:30 - 16:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Online
The SENSEI Team is happy to continue with the second round of Thoughtful Thursdays! These sessions are meant as coffee-break moments in the afternoon to break up our daily activities and discuss challenges in the field of inclusive and participatory education.
The 45-minute sessions take place weekly on Thursdays at 15:30 CEST. This time, we are offering our SENSEI Network members to promote topics that they find important! You can register via the main page HERE (see towards the bottom).
Certificates will be issued to those who actively participate in at least four of the seven sessions.
Join us on 25 September at 15:30 CEST!
Thoughtful Thursdays are designed exclusively for SENSEI Network members. For further information on the project, CLICK HERE

International Symposium - Untold Histories: Sinti and Roma in Our Classrooms
2025-09-26 09:30 - 17:30 | Haagse Hogeschool, Johanna Westerdijkplein 75, 2521 EN Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
Co-hosted by EuroClio and department Social Work of The Hague University of Applied Sciences (THUAS), this event will bring together teachers, educators, policymakers, community members and students to explore approaches in educating about the histories of Sinti, Roma and other related groups.
Sinti and Roma are the largest pan-European ethnic minority. Yet the past of Sinti and Roma is rarely part of history lessons. The result is that pupils of Roma and Sinti heritage may not encounter their past in history classrooms, while myths and stereotypes are allowed to continue in the minds of the majority populations. There are a number of reasons why educators might shy away from these histories: A lack of knowledge about the pasts of these communities; a lack of cultural understanding leading to avoidance of what could be seen as a sensitive or emotional topic; or simply because they may be very short on time due to curricular constraints.
This symposium will highlight why the inclusion of Roma and Sinti histories is important, both in a Dutch and European context. It will additionally present concrete ideas for inclusive teaching strategies and lesson plans. The symposium will feature a plenary session with roundtable discussions, followed by interactive workshops showcasing inclusive educational approaches as well as a city walk highlighting places of relevance to the Roma and Sinti communities in The Hague. The city walk will be organised and led by students at THUAS who have taken the minor ‘Inclusivity in the City’ along with members of the Sinti and Roma communities in The Hague. Connecting the local histories of Sinti and Roma in The Hague and the Netherlands with a larger European context, the Symposium will aim to inspire dialogue and inclusion of marginalised historical narratives in education.
Admission: €20. Ticket includes coffee breaks, lunch and drinks. Admission is free for students and retirees.
Note that registrations close on Monday 22 September
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SENSEI Thoughtful Thursdays 10
2025-10-02 15:30 - 16:00 | Online
The SENSEI Team is happy to continue with the second round of Thoughtful Thursdays! These sessions are meant as coffee-break moments in the afternoon to break up our daily activities and discuss challenges in the field of inclusive and participatory education.
The 45-minute sessions take place weekly on Thursdays at 15:30 CEST. This time, we are offering our SENSEI Network members to promote topics that they find important! You can register via the main page HERE (see towards the bottom).
Certificates will be issued to those who actively participate in at least four of the seven sessions.
Join us on 2 October at 15:30 CEST!
Thoughtful Thursdays are designed exclusively for SENSEI Network members. For further information on the project, CLICK HERE

SENSEI Thoughtful Thursdays 11
2025-10-09 15:30 - 16:00 | Online
The SENSEI Team is happy to continue with the second round of Thoughtful Thursdays! These sessions are meant as coffee-break moments in the afternoon to break up our daily activities and discuss challenges in the field of inclusive and participatory education.
The 45-minute sessions take place weekly on Thursdays at 15:30 CEST. This time, we are offering our SENSEI Network members to promote topics that they find important! You can register via the main page HERE (see towards the bottom).
Certificates will be issued to those who actively participate in at least four of the seven sessions.
Join us on 9 October at 15:30 CEST!
Thoughtful Thursdays are designed exclusively for SENSEI Network members. For further information on the project, CLICK HERE

SENSEI Thoughtful Thursdays 12
2025-10-16 15:30 - 16:00 | Online
The SENSEI Team is happy to continue with the second round of Thoughtful Thursdays! These sessions are meant as coffee-break moments in the afternoon to break up our daily activities and discuss challenges in the field of inclusive and participatory education.
The 45-minute sessions take place weekly on Thursdays at 15:30 CEST. This time, we are offering our SENSEI Network members to promote topics that they find important! You can register via the main page HERE (see towards the bottom).
Certificates will be issued to those who actively participate in at least four of the seven sessions.
Join us on 16 October at 15:30 CEST!
Thoughtful Thursdays are designed exclusively for SENSEI Network members. For further information on the project, CLICK HERE

Making Visegrad Histories Digital Autumn School
2025-10-23 09:30 - 2025-10-25 14:30 | Kosice, Šrobárova 2, Kosice, Slovakia (Slovak Republic)
As part of the Making Visegrad Histories Digital project, we are pleased to invite history educators to a 2,5-day Autumn School. The event, jointly hosted with the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice and the Institute of Social Sciences, will take place in Košice, Slovakia, from 23 to 25 October.
The Autumn School will promote educational materials developed by the Making Visegrad Histories project, feature panel discussions on the history of State Socialism in the Visegrad region, a historic city walk of Košice as well as other active work sessions designed primarily for history teachers.
An aim of the Autumn School is to foster a network of history educators interested in the shared 20th century histories of the Central European region.
Please note that we have closed registrations for this event.

SENSEI Thoughtful Thursdays 13
2025-10-23 15:30 - 16:00 | Online
The SENSEI Team is happy to continue with the second round of Thoughtful Thursdays! These sessions are meant as coffee-break moments in the afternoon to break up our daily activities and discuss challenges in the field of inclusive and participatory education.
The 45-minute sessions take place weekly on Thursdays at 15:30 CEST. This time, we are offering our SENSEI Network members to promote topics that they find important! You can register via the main page HERE (see towards the bottom).
Certificates will be issued to those who actively participate in at least four of the seven sessions.
Join us on 23 October at 15:30 CEST!
Thoughtful Thursdays are designed exclusively for SENSEI Network members. For further information on the project, CLICK HERE

SENSEI Thoughtful Thursdays 14
2025-10-30 15:30 - 16:00 | Online
The SENSEI Team is happy to continue with the second round of Thoughtful Thursdays! These sessions are meant as coffee-break moments in the afternoon to break up our daily activities and discuss challenges in the field of inclusive and participatory education.
The 45-minute sessions take place weekly on Thursdays at 15:30 CEST. This time, we are offering our SENSEI Network members to promote topics that they find important! You can register via the main page HERE (see towards the bottom).
Certificates will be issued to those who actively participate in at least four of the seven sessions.
Join us on 30 October at 15:30 CEST!
Thoughtful Thursdays are designed exclusively for SENSEI Network members. For further information on the project, CLICK HERE

Webinar: Exploring youth attitudes towards history
2025-11-12 15:00 - 16:30
In partnership with the Internatonal Society for History Didactics (ISHD), we invite you to join us online 12 November at 15:00 CET for a webinar discussing the preliminary findings of the ongoing Youth and History research, exploring youth attitudes towards history across Europe. Dr. Johanna Norppa (University of Helsinki) will share some of the findings from the Finnish study. Dr. Norppa will be joined by Andreas Holtberget and Dr. Paula O’Donohoe (both EuroClio), who will complement with insights on potential consequences for history teaching – and corresponding research from EuroClio on teachers’ needs and attitudes.
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Webinar: Teaching the Nakba
2026-02-10 16:30 - 17:30 | Online
In this webinar, we will explore various primary and secondary sources that help to tell the story of the 1948 Nakba, a story often hidden in history textbooks. Key players in the story include the World Zionist Congress, Sami Hadawi, Elias Kousa, Father Ralph Gorman, and many more. Teachers will be given access to and context for new sources not easily found online. The workshop will also feature interactive activities to give students a meaningful experience and understanding of the events of 1948.
The Nakba (the catastrophe) of 1948 Lesson Plan is a synthesis of primary sources and secondary sources aimed to provide teachers with a deep analysis of the connection between the Holocaust and the Nakba of 1948. The lesson grants agency and voice to the millions of Palestinians whose stories have not been exposed for various political reasons. It also seeks to amplify Jewish voices that do not subscribe to the Zionist national project, illustrating the diversity of perspectives within Judaism itself.
The purpose of this lesson plan is threefold:

To illustrate the complexity of the building of the nation-state and its impact on local indigenous peoples. One particular example is the nation-state of Israel and its creation in 1948 as a result of the Zionist enterprise of realising a Jewish homeland in the land of Palestine. The lesson focuses on the impact of nation-state building and its exclusionary policies in the case of Israel, in creating a unique and exclusive Jewish homeland from its inception. The result is a complete dispossession and depopulation of an entire community who identify collectively as Palestinians. In this sense, students learn the benefits and dangers of nation-state building for the dispossessed.
To understand how Palestinian identity has been preserved over the years, amidst very little understanding or education on the subject, and Jewish voices that support Palestinian grievances and seek peace and a solution to the conflict.
To practice the power of history through storytelling via books, primary sources, films, and oral histories will bring this lesson to life for the students.

Objectives/Outcomes:

Create empathy and compassion for victims of the Nakba.
Integrate the stories and voices of Palestinians into the broader immigrant experience.
Illustrate how one group’s oppression can be equally catastrophic as another group’s oppression.
Delineate the difference between Jewish voices and Zionist voices when determining views on the Palestine question.
Analyse how nation-state building can establish and implement exclusionary policies towards indigenous peoples.
Examine stories and traumas of Nakba survivors through their own experience.
Portray Palestinian voices as authentic, real, and worthy of learning in world history.
Connect Jewish and Palestinian voices as part of a common thread for justice and peace in the Middle East.

RegisterOur host will be Rania Assily, an assistant professor of history at Cuyahoga Community College in Northeast Ohio, United States. She teaches and develops curriculum for World Civilisations, U.S. History, and Middle East history. This lesson plan was developed and first featured in March 2025 at the All History is Local NCHE (National Council for History Education) Conference.
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Time to Think Webinar #1: History Education with Visible Thinking - A Refresher
2026-02-24 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
This series of online peer learning activities is geared toward history and civics teachers in Europe who have already had an introduction to thinking routines. As active users, we are looking to build a community of practitioners with whom to try out and expand our toolkit of visible thinking routines. Participants will receive a brief refresher of the foundational concepts of Project Zero and how they relate to history education (and can be applied to elevate historical thinking and learning). Together, we will discuss how thinking routines can be used in different learning phases and activities in the history and civics classroom: Engaging with primary sources, textbook resources, and historical narratives, we will focus on how to empower students to decipher, understand, and explain texts, how to analyze them, and how to evaluate them critically. Going beyond the classroom, we will try out how to incorporate thinking routines in visits of museums, memorials, and monuments. The webinar will have alternating sessions between theory and methods on the one hand and reflections on using thinking routines in one’s own practices as a history and civics educator on the other. See an overview of all the events here.
The first session will provide a brief refresher of Project Zero (PZ) visible thinking, developed by the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Participants will get to know the rationale behind the development of PZ, focusing on thinking routines and visible thinking. Participants will then look at how PZ could be applied to history and civics classrooms, practically exploring the potential of visible thinking for the different learning phases, their progression, and competencies.
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Time to Think Webinar #2: Using Thinking Routines to Develop Evidence-Based Reasoning
2026-03-24 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
(Historical Thinking Concept: Evidence)
This webinar explores how thinking routines can support the development of evidence-based reasoning, a central disciplinary skill in history education. Building on the historical thinking concept of evidence, the session focuses on how students learn to work with primary and secondary sources in order to construct informed interpretations of the past.
Thinking routines can help make the process of historical analysis visible and structured. By guiding students through stages of observation, interpretation, and questioning, these routines support learners in distinguishing between what a source shows, what it might mean, and what additional information is needed. In doing so, students learn to treat historical accounts not as fixed truths but as interpretations grounded in evidence.
The webinar will present classroom practices that use thinking routines to scaffold students’ engagement with historical sources and scholarship, helping them evaluate reliability, recognise perspective, and justify claims with evidence. While the concept of historical evidence provides the disciplinary foundation, the primary focus of the session is on how routines can strengthen students’ analytical and argumentative skills in history.
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Critical History Tours Lecture - Unpacking the Past: Tourism as a Critical Intervention (1)
2026-04-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Join us for the inaugural public lecture of the Critical History Tours project.
Learn how we can transform a standard city tour into a powerful tool for historical reckoning and social intervention. We will explore the project’s approach to using tourism as a critical intervention in historical teaching and share insights into the work of our project partners: ATRIUM, Balkan Museum Network, the International Students of History Association – ISHA, Liberation Route Europe and Uncomfortable Oxford.
Upcoming Opportunities:
Attend this lecture to learn about our upcoming workshops and professional courses.
Register for the lectureImportant for Scholarship Applicants:
To be considered for a scholarship to attend the full course, all applicants must have attended both this initial lecture and the subsequent workshop.

32nd Annual Conference: History and Hope
2026-04-27 - 2026-04-29 | Brussels, Belgium, Belgium
Please visit our dedicated Conference website historyandhope.eu for more details on the 32 Annual Conference Monday, April 27 to Wednesday, April 29, 2026, hosted in partnership with the House of European History!
Through this year’s conference theme, “History and Hope: Learning for Change”, we explore ways of harnessing hope from historical events and education to empower young people for benevolent changemaking. This year’s sub-themes are: Multi-Perspectivity and Transnationalism, Anti-Racism/Anti-Colonial Practice and Democracy and European Values.
Whether you are new to our events or a returning visitor, this conference is the perfect place to join a community dedicated to learning and sharing with like-minded individuals in the field.
The Conference will take place in Brussels, Belgium, from Monday, 27 April to Wednesday, 29 April 2026. As usual, for early arrivals, we will organise limited events on Sunday, 26 April! The main venue will be at the European Parliament. Other conference locations are all planned to be within walking distance of each other near Leopoldpark.

Tickets are now available for purchase!
Please get yours by clicking the button to the right.

If you are a member, please reach out via the email below to receive your discount code. Student and retiree discounts are also available!
If you have any queries or require further information, please contact ac2026 [at] euroclio [dot] eu.

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We are proud to bring the event to you in collaboration with the House of European History.

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Workshop Proposals

The workshop proposal deadline has passed.
This year, the review process is overseen by a committee that will receive anonymised submissions. Results are expected to be privately announced by the end of January 2026.

Mobility Grants
Want to attend EuroClio’s 2026 Annual Conference? We are offering mobility grants to 15 teachers! EuroClio will organise and cover the costs of travel, accommodation and food.
The application deadline has passed. Results are expected to be announced privately by the end of January 2026.

Programme
The Conference Programme, with all latest updates, is available on the dedicated Conference website historyandhope.eu

Critical History Tours Lecture – Unpacking the Past: Tourism as a Critical Intervention (2)
2026-05-07 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Join us for the second iteration public lecture of the Critical History Tours project.
Learn how we can transform a standard city tour into a powerful tool for historical reckoning and social intervention. We will explore the project’s approach to using tourism as a critical intervention in historical teaching and share insights into the work of our project partners: ATRIUM, Balkan Museum Network, the International Students of History Association – ISHA, Liberation Route Europe and Uncomfortable Oxford.
Upcoming Opportunities:
Attend this lecture to learn about our upcoming workshops and professional courses.
Register for the lectureImportant for Scholarship Applicants:
To be considered for a scholarship to attend the full course, all applicants must have attended both this initial lecture and the subsequent workshop.

Webinar: Thinking Routines and Colonial Archives
2026-05-11 16:30 - 18:00 | Online
Thinking Routines and Colonial Archives: Reading Representation and Silence
This webinar, in collaboration with the AfricaMuseum in Tervuren (Belgium), engages with a selection of archival sources the museum’s collection that are not part of the museum’s public display. These documents and images provide insight into how colonial knowledge was produced through practices of classification, visual framing, and omission, shaping what becomes visible, sayable, or left in silence. At the same time, the webinar presents a series of activities (developed on Historiana) based on thinking routines applied directly to these sources.
Participants are guided through structured tasks that support close analysis, interpretation, and reflection, with attention to questions of voice, perspective, and absence. The aim is both to engage critically with the materials and to consider how similar activities can be adapted for classroom use when working with complex and sensitive historical sources.
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Time to Think Webinar #3: Using Thinking Routines to Foster Perspective-Taking
2026-05-26 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
(Historical Thinking Concepts: Historical Perspectives and the Ethical Dimension)
This webinar examines how thinking routines can support students in developing historical perspective-taking, an important skill for understanding the complexity of past events. Drawing on concepts like historical perspectives and the ethical dimension, the session explores how students can learn to recognise that people in the past acted within specific contexts, values, and constraints.
Thinking routines provide structured opportunities for students to explore and compare different viewpoints within historical narratives. By guiding reflection and dialogue, these routines encourage students to consider how historical actors might have understood their situations and how different interpretations of the past emerge.
The webinar will present strategies that use thinking routines to help students analyse diverse perspectives, reflect on the relationship between past and present values, and engage in thoughtful discussion about historical and civic issues. While the conceptual framework of historical perspectives informs the discussion, the central focus of the session is the development of students’ skills in analysing viewpoints, engaging in dialogue, and reflecting critically on historical narratives.
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Critical History Tours Workshop
2026-06-04 14:00 - 16:30
The workshop will be a 2 hour, online participatory workshop open to anyone interested in gaining the practical skills of developing critical history tours in their own location.
You can watch the recorded lecture and then submit a reflection to qualify for the workshop and course. You will then receive the link to register for the workshop.
LectureLecture Reflection

Time to Think Webinar #4: Using Thinking Routines to Strengthen Historical Inquiry
2026-06-23 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
(Historical Thinking Concepts: Historical Significance and Cause & Consequence)
This webinar focuses on the role of thinking routines in supporting historical inquiry and questioning, key skills for meaningful engagement with the past. Drawing on concepts like historical significance and cause and consequence, the session explores how students can learn to ask deeper questions about historical events, processes, and interpretations.
Thinking routines can help structure inquiry by encouraging students to generate questions, reflect on possible explanations, and connect different pieces of information. Through these routines, students are guided to consider why certain events or actors are considered historically significant and how different causes and consequences shape historical developments.
The webinar will present classroom strategies that use thinking routines to promote curiosity, structured inquiry, and critical reflection. Although historical thinking concepts provide an important analytical framework, the main emphasis of the session is on developing students’ skills in questioning, investigating, and constructing informed historical explanations.
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