The international cooperation project “History Competitions” was carried out over a period of eight years (2017-2024). It was started by DVV International and Körber-Stiftung with the funding of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany within the framework “Civil Society Cooperation”.
It supported the continuation of history competitions for pupils and young adults in Ukraine and Belarus (until 2021), the implementation in Georgia and Moldova – and from 2021-2024 also in Armenia. It also fostered international exchange between organisers, teachers and young adults, e.g. through workshops, network meetings and youth encounters.
Project partners
Each participating country in the cooperation project “History Competitions” (2017-2024) formed an operating project team consisting of the DVV International country office and at least one local partner organisation / NGO.
Hazarashen – Armenian Center for Ethnological Studies
Youth Public Association Historica
GAHE – Georgian Association of History Educators
SovLab – Soviet Past Research Laboratory
ANTIM – The National Association of Young Historians of Moldova
NOVA DOBA – All-Ukrainian Association of Teachers of History, Civic Education and Social Studies
Retrospect: Insights into the national competitions
Ukraine
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Further informationInternational Youth Encounters
Competition winners of all participating countries met for international youth activities.
2024
“Stories They Tell”
History Camp in Riga, Latvia in the framework of the EUSTORY Next Generation Summit.
2022
“Uncovering Soviet Propaganda”
History Camp in Yerevan, Armenia.
2020
“Coping with Painful Pasts”
Online History Camp.
2018
“War and Peace Cast in Stone”
Workshop in Berlin, Germany in the framework of the EUSTORY Next Generation Summit.
Tutor Encounters
Teachers play a crucial role in the cooperation project “History Competitions” (2017-2024). In educational workshops on national and international levels they reflected on how to support students’ projects on family and local history.
International Teachers’ Academy in Budva, Montenegro
Teachers learned how they can shape their teaching to overcome differences, promote empathy and encourage critical thinking.
International Online Workshop
The Ukrainian team presented a new online publication on digital history, oral history and community involvement.
International summer academy for tutors in Ikalto, Georgia
Tutors discussed how to deal with a Soviet past and its traumatic aspects that are brought up in school lessons.
International online workshop
Tutors from all five project countries discussed how politics of memory and cultures of commemoration are significant in class.
Take aways from the DVV Cooperation project
Towards More Inclusive and Critical History Teaching
History-based propaganda can have serious consequences in a society. How should educators deal with it?
“I Will Try to Use History as a Tool to Change the World”
Learning how to shape teaching to overcome differences, promote empathy and encourage critical thinking.
How to Tutor Students Researching Propaganda
In workshops, tutors learned how to use didactical methods for dealing with 20th century propaganda in the classroom.
The cooperation project “History Competitions” (2017-2024) was supported by
