Ourstory

CLIOH, CLIOHnet, Clioh's Workshop and CLIOHRES.net are young, but they already have an important history behind them.

 

Our history is closely linked with the on-going process of building a European cultural space, of creating a framework in which the rich diversity of academic, cultural and intellectual traditions of Europe can interact to the greatest benefit. Students and professors have dedicated great energy to this project in different ways since the end of the 1980s.

 

 

 

The original nucleus of what today is CLIOHnet was formed by the Universities participating in the History Subject Area Group of the European Credit Transfer System Pilot Project -- a project developed to facilitate the mobility of students in Europe by creating a system for the recognition of the academic work carried out abroad. History was one of the 5 subject areas in the ECTS Pilot Project which began in 1988.

 

 

After the successful conclusion of the Pilot Project -- today ECTS is used all over Europe and is the basis for national credit systems instituted in many countries -- the Universities participating in the History Subject Area decided to continue their collaboration. They successfully presented and completed an Erasmus-Socrates Curriculum Development Project, coordinated by the University of Groningen, on the "Idea and Reality of the History of Europe". At that time, the group decided that one of the best ways to explore the great potential for innovation in the teaching/learning of History was to organise Intensive Programmes, in which students and teachers from the participating Universities could interact in an actual teaching/learning situation. To date, the group has successfully presented and held eight Intensive Programmes: Bologna, May 1998; Pisa, May 1998 Gent, March 2000, Reyjkavik, May 2000; Roskilde, March 2001; Pisa, May 2001, Riga, May 2003, Madrid in March 2004.
Plenary Meetings
Intensive Programmes

 

In May 1999 the ECTS History Network held a European Conference on " The Present of the Past . History in European Universities: comparison, harmonisation, innovation". There CLIOH was conceived. CLIOH meant extending the partnership to the new Europe, including the Eastern and Central European Countries.
CLIOH ("Refounding Europe: Creating Links and Overviews for a New History Agenda") began activities in 2000, creating materials and proposals for the teaching/learning of history in Europe. The year 2003-04, as CLIOH-DISS, was dedicated to disseminating the insights gained.
With the birth of CLIOH came the realisation that the foundations for developing into a European History Network as an Erasmus Thematic Network were in place. CLIOHNET represents the extension -- thematically and geographically -- of the work done until then.

 

Today, CLIOHnet has partners in all European countries; and it is developing links with other countries as well. We are now extending our network to Russia, Turkey and Southeastern Europe. We also have associate partners in Center Africa and in Central Asia.

 

 

 

 

CLIOHnet was born in 2000 and began its activities in 2001-2. Today it is in its fourth year, dedicated to dissemination. CLIOHnet has partners in all European countries eligible for the Socrates programme. Furthermore it has developed active links with partners in other countries, in the Russian Federation, in South Eastern Europe, in Central Asia and in South Africa. Through its participation in Tuning-Latin America it now has links with history departments in the 18 Latin American countries.
It has promoted a Network of Networks (the European Archipelago of Humanistic Thematic Networks) and a Network of Excellence for Research (CLIOHRES.net), extending its work to other areas of endeavour and other continents.