Congratulations to Heidi Biseth (Oslo University College), the 2011 winner of the Dr. Judith Torney-Purta Outstanding Paper Award in Citizenship and Democratic Education. The winner’s paper will be published in Citizenship Teaching and Learning.

The Anna Lindh Foundation has launched a region-wide initiative: "Believe in Dialogue, Act for Citizenship", to promote intercultural dialogue and its relationship with democracy, active and participatory citizenship and human rights in the Euromed region.

"The EWC Statement Series" is a section on the EWC website where scholars and researchers are invited to publish their views on important research topics and scholarly debates. A new statement on the findings of the IEA Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) by Dr Malak-Minkiewicz has just been published, where she focuses on the challenges for educational practitioners in Europe.

The conference took place in Baku, Azerbaijan 7 - 9 April and gathered more than 400 participants from all over the world. The forum addressed the policy, governance and practical challenges of intercultural dialogue. It was an important arena for sharing good practice and launch new initiatives to tackle the barriers of intercultural dialogue.

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