Lars Gudmundson has a MA in History of Ideas and Political Sciences from the University of Oslo. He has wide experience from the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research and the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training. He has actively worked with issues concerning education about religion and strategy plans promoting democratic citizenship in schools.

The project "Developing Competence-Oriented Teaching on Historical Memories" introduces the complexity of public memory and remembrance into history teaching at schools. Dr. Claudia Lenz from the EWC is one of the organizers.

The European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) seeks a Human Rights Trainer to coordinate, develop and implement ERRC human rights training programmes to enhance the capacity of Romani activists and other relevant actors for the promotion of human rights respect of Roma.

The European Roma Rights Centre organizes an annual Summer School, which will be held in Budapest, Hungary, from 25 July – 4 August 2010. The 10-day activity is intended for young Romani activists, students, and Roma/Human rights activists from all European countries. The Summer School offers both an introduction to human rights as well as an excellent forum for the exchange of ideas, innovation and expertise for participants.

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The University of Oslo organizes the conference "Culture, Civilization and the World – the Semantics of Globalization" from Januar 25-26. EWC's Research Coordinator Dr. Claudia Lenz will be giving a lecture on: "Citizenship – an ambigram in the context of national and global interpretations".

Amnesty International is seeking a Project Coordinator to coordinate an international human rights education initiative, which is aimed at raising awareness, informing debate and enabling action in order to tackle human rights abuses that drive and deepen poverty. Deadline is on January 18, 2010.

The MBI Al Jaber Foundation will support the EWC in its work in the field of education for intercultural understanding, human rights and democratic citizenship. The MBI Foundation and the EWC will cooperate on several research- and capacity building related projects in the forthcoming years.

The EWC Executive Director Ana Perona-Fjeldstad and Special Adviser Gunnar Mandt recently visited the North-South Centre to discuss possible collaboration projects and future activities.

The Global Education & Youth programme of the North-South Centre (NSC) has, since 1999, been organising the Global Education Week (GEW), an annual decentralised event encouraging global education awareness-raising activities within educational and youth settings in the Council of Europe’s (CoE) member States.