The workshop was organized by the KULTRANS programme/University of Oslo and the European Wergeland Centre, with financial support by the Foundation Fritt Ord.

The members of the project group represent the following institutions:

Higher School of Economics/Moscow; University of Hamburg; Federal Agency for Civic Education/Germany (bpb); University of Oslo; Centre for Human Rights Education University of Teacher Education Central Switzerland/ Lucerne; Norwegian University of Science and Technology; The European Wergeland Centre

The group agreed on elementary goals and procedures:

The intercultural glossary project aims to develop a learning/educational tool related to the investigation, negotiation and reflection of concepts in the fields of Education for Democratic Citizenship, Human Rights Education and Intercultural Education. It will promote reflexivity and multi-perspectivity with regard to key concepts in the fields of EDC/HRE and ICE.

 Elements of the project:

• Development of an online glossary of terms
• Development, testing and documentation of learning methods related to the glossary
• Realization of learning activities that will lead to the generation of glossary content (face to face and peer to peer/online)

The target groups of the online glossary (final product) are all stakeholders involved in EDC/HRE and ICE, which includes formal, non-formal and informal learning environments.

The development of the online-glossary will build on the existing resource “Confusing Conversations”, established by the bpb and the Network of European Citizenship Educators (NECE)

In a first phase, the project partners will work with some initial groups of participants, mainly multipliers (university teachers and students, teacher trainers and teacher students, NGO activists), in order to develop content and methods.

In fall, the work of content development through peer learning activities will be started by some of the partners. There will be frequent updates about the ongoing work at the EWC homepage!

For further information about the project: c.lenz@theewc.org