2011 - 2014: funded by the European Union's Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA)

The JHP has been supported by:

The Joint History Project (JHP) is an ongoing, social, political and educational initiative that begun under the auspices of the CDRSEE in 1999, aiming at an informed, significant and realistic change in historical research and education in all countries of Southeast Europe. The overarching goal is to give teachers, students and everyday citizens a voice for influencing public sector reform.

The objectives are to encourage debate, celebrate diversity and recognise shared suffering and achievements through a participative approach to history teaching, in order for students and teachers to develop the understanding and skills needed for sustainable peace and a democratic future. In the long term, the JHP aims to revise ethnocentric school history teaching by avoiding stereotypes, by identifying attitudes that encourage conflict, by suggesting alternative teaching methods and by promoting the idea of multiple interpretations of one event.

The objectives of the project are achieved through the production of a set of alternative history-teaching education materials currently available in eight languages– designed and written by prominent experts from all over the region – along with continuous teacher training, outreach and media work.