Socrates-ErasmusThematic Network 'Creating Links and Innovative Overviews to Enhance Historical Perspective in European Culture'

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 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.