What is CLIOHnet ?

A net catches, filters and connects.

CLIOHnet does all this...

CLIOHnet 's name stands for "Creating Links and Innovative Overviews to Enhance Historical Perspective in European Culture". 

CLIOHnet is a Socrates-ErasmusThematic Network formed to address the task of bringing the study of history and a critically founded historical perspective to bear on the challenges facing European society and education today. Both as a research area and as a subject widely taught and studied in Universities and schools at all levels, history is undergoing a rapid transformation, often perceived as a crisis. The Network utilises the remarkable opportunities created by the swift expansion of contact between diverse European cultural and educational traditions to bring a supranational, diachronic and comparative approach to the study and teaching of history.  
The target groups are, first of all, students and young people, including school children, and those who are responsible for their formation: teachers and teachers associations, Universities and University professors including scientists and engineers; second, those who cultivate an historical outlook such as local, national and international historical bodies, associations and journals; finally, on a larger scale, the media, the general public and public opinion.

CLIOHnet works on a variety of levels. In each country -- about ten in each of the three planned years of activities -- a national workshop for teachers, students, researchers and other interested citizens is to be held. Five Task Forces have been created to address priority areas: gender and equal opportunities issues; racism and ethnicity; the use of ODL and ICT in achieving a new historical perspective; history and humanities in scientific and technological curricula; the broadening of the historiographical space to include Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean countries. Other Task Forces may form in response the needs perceived during operation. 

CLIOHnet  disseminates the insights developed in a variety of ways. Each Task Force is responsible for publicising the results of its work. The Network as a whole is carrying out a project entitled "Clioh's Workshop II" under the Culture 2000 programme of the Education and Culture Directorate.General of the European Commission. It collaborates in the Tuning Educational Structures in Europe Project (Phases 1 and 2), and in TEEP 2002 (Transnational Evaluation Project). It will create an association (HEKLA) for enhancing the historical perspective in European culture, it operates a web-site and a mailing list. It is now creating a pan-European directory of historical associations and bodies; it encourages publications relating to its objectives on the specialised press and in the media. It promotes the study on teaching and studying history in Europe today and will publish the results in book form, containing both an overview of the present situation and recommendations for action.