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 International Academy on "Remembrance and Human Rights" will take place in Berlin from March 14-19, 2010. For the second time the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future organizes this academy for multipliers in educational work. Application deadline: January 20, 2010.

The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights released a new study on Holocaust and Human Rights Education. The report reveals, that despite the commitment to Human Rights Education expressed in Ministries throughout the EU, teaching about the Holocaust rarely includes discussion of human rights issues.

The European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice calls for applications for its inter-disciplinary European Master Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation for 2010/2011. Deadline for application is March 19, 2010.

Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, calls for applications for the VIII Edition Master of Arts in Human Rights and Conflict Management (a.y. 2009/2010).

EWC welcomes Claudia Lenz to its team! Claudia Lenz has a PhD in Political Science, from the University of Hamburg. Her research is in the fields of history cultures and didactics of history, focusing on social and political in- and exclusion and the conditions for active democratic citizenship.

Oslo University College, together with the University of Oslo and the Center for Studies of Holocaust and Religious Minorities, has invited the distinguished anthropologist and historian Prof. Matti Bunzl (University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign) to give a series of lectures in Oslo; 16., 18., 21. September. The European Wergeland Centre is participating in this event, and EWC’s Research Coordinator Claudia Lenz will be giving a presentation.