Betreff:        Grants available for conference Riga
How to Balance the Local, National, Regional, European and World
Dimension in History Teaching?

EUROCLIO Annual Conference and Professional Training and
Development Course

Riga, Latvia, 11-17 April 2005


                                                                                                                                                                            
POSSIBLE GRANTS

Dear colleagues,

The EUROCLIO Secretariat, Board and the Latvian organisers are
working on EUROCLIO's next Annual Conference and Professional
Training and Development Course How to Balance the Local,
National, Regional, European and World Dimension in History
Teaching?, which will be held in Riga, Latvia, 11-17 April 2005.
There are various possible grants for this course.


        COMENIUS AND GRUNDTVIG GRANTS

We are happy to inform you that this course is eligible for
EU/Socrates grants and is included in the Comenius and Grundtvig
catalogue under course reference number NL-2005-004. The Comenius
2.2 programme is for in-service training for school educators.
Adult educators should apply through the Grundtvig 3 programme.
We would like to encourage you all to apply for a grant. Since
these are decentralised actions the applications go through the
National Socrates Agencies. If you are interested please contact
your National Agency. They can inform you about eligibility,
application details, forms and deadlines. Please note that the
application deadlines vary per country. Contact addresses, as
well as the course catalogue, can be found on the Internet at:
europa.eu.int/comm/education under ´programmes & actions´.

Applications should include a letter of pre-registration, which
can be obtained from the EUROCLIO Secretariat. For more
information please contact Ms Willemijn van der Toorn at:
Willemijn@euroclio.nl

On the EUROCLIO website: www.eurocliohistory.org, you can find
the draft conference programme as well as an update on the
conference preparations under ´Annual Conference´ - ´Latvia
2005´.
Eligibility: The COMENIUS/Grundtvig programme is open to
participants from the following countries: Belgium, Denmark,
Germany, Greece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Finland, Sweden and the United
Kingdom, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Bulgaria, the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Cyprus, Malta and Turkey.
                                                                                           
PLATO GRANTS
For participants from the Netherlands there are 6 Plato grants
available. Each grant has a maximum of 750 EURO. Applications can
be submitted until 3 weeks before the start of the course by
sending the Plato-form (available on: www.europeesplatform.nl)
including a short motivation letter and an official letter of
pre-registration. There is a preference for people who have not
yet received a Plato grant, but this is not a requirement. For
more information about Plato please contact Mr Jan Willem Wilkens
at: Wilkens@europeesplatform.nl
For a letter of pre-registration please contact Willemijn van der
Toorn at: Willemijn@euroclio.nl or  tel: +31 70 3817836


We wish you all good luck with your applications and hope to see
you in Riga next year!

With kind regards,

Willemijn van der Toorn.


EUROCLIO Secretariat
Juliana van Stolberglaan 41
2595 CA The Hague
The Netherlands

Tel/fax: +31 70 3853669
Tel: +31 70 3817836
E-mail: Willemijn@euroclio.nl
Website: www.eurocliohistory.org