In close co-operation with different partners (listed below), the EWC has started to work on an intercultural glossary project in the field of education for democratic citizenship, human rights and intercultural understanding.

Project Partners: Higher School of Economics/ Moscow; University of Hamburg; Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb); KULTRANS programme/University of Oslo; Centre for Human Rights Education University of Teacher Education Central Switzerland Lucerne; Norwegian University of Science and Technology; University of Surrey; the Harvard Graduate School of Education; The European Wergeland Centre.

The long term aim of this project is to provide an online resource for education professionals offering definitions and discussions of key concepts, as well as methods for concept learning. The glossary can be used to facilitate learning processes fostering (self)-reflexivity, multi-perspectivity and information literacy. The content of the online glossary will be produced through peer learning activities with students in different countries.

The project includes the following:

• the cooperative development of conceptual knowledge and understanding
• the development of an online glossary
• the development of methods for concept learning and
• initiate a field of research

The project will build on the existing WIKI glossary “Confusing Conversations”, developed by the German Federal Agency for Civic Education and the NECE network.

While the existing WIKI will remain accessible, a “2^nd generation” WIKI will be developed and published with entries following a new template.

Contact: Claudia Lenz, The EWC: c.lenz@theewc.org