Socrates programme

Participating Institution nr. 30 . DIGIDOCS: Edizioni digitali online

Type: non-profit cultural association mainly devoted to web dissemination of electronic texts and documents relating European historical culture

Size: n.5 permanent staff; editors, experts and consultants according to need.

Expertise: Digidocs is at present responsible for the managing of Cromohs (Cyber Review of Modern Historiography,

http://www.cromohs.unifi.it

) and Eliohs (Electronic Library of Historiography,

http://www.eliohs.unifi.it

) . The main field of Cromohs, an international electronic peer-review journal with an international and academic scientific board, is the research on modern European historical culture in various areas of interest: cultural and intellectual history, methodology and philosophy of historical research, history of erudition and of academic historical institutions, biographies and bibliography. Eliohs has developed a growing free access collection of digitalized sources of modern historical thought, selected by its scientific committee and organized in different collections. They are philological reproductions of works present in European libraries, but often of difficult access, offered for a scientific and didactical use to the international community. A selection of other digital libraries of similar interest, an internal search-engine, and a general catalogue of historical literature available on the web, makes it an important resource for study and research. Both Cromohs and Eliohs join the open-access philosophy for the dissemination of intellectual resources on the Internet. The scientific and university community in which the responsible are directly involved guarantees the quality of their results. Cromohs' essays are regularly indexed by Historical Abstracts (

http://sb2.abc-clio.com:81/

) and pointed out as one of the most valuable Internet resources for historian by various international organizations.

Experience: Digidocs activities are developed in cooperation with various national and international institutions. Its electronic journal Cromohs is published by Firenze University Press (

http://epress.unifi.it/

), which is responsible for the dissemination of its materials as print-on-demand and for the legal deposit at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Florence, and participates to the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journal) project (

http://www.doaj.org/

). Cromohs and Eliohs are maintained with the cooperation of CSIAF (Centro Servizi Informatici dell'Ateneo Fiorentino -

http://www.csiaf.unifi.it/

) and are connected to the project Storia Moderna – Risorse on-line per la storia moderna (

http://www.stmoderna.it/AspFiles/index.asp

) . Eliohs' collection "European Identity in historical culture of modern age" (

http://wwwnt.unifi.it/eliohsbib/collane_identita.asp

) has been already opened in cooperation with Cliohnet project.
Participating Institution nr. 31 Edizioni PLUS

Type: new publishing house of the University of Pisa.

Size: 4 permanent staff.

Expertise: University publishing house and project leader of CLIOH’s Workshop I and II.

Experience: Edizioni Plus has been created to disseminate broadly and without monetary gain the best of what comes from the academic world, not only from the University of Pisa. The PLUS publishing activity will encompass manuals, handbooks, essays, magazines, and in-depth studies of specific subjects of popular interest, in addition to the University’s informational and institutional publications. A fundamental part of PLUS’s profile is the attractive and efficacious publicity and communication about its activities and its offer through Internet, as well as through appropriate audiovisual and multimedial channels.

Edizioni PLUS mantains a regular presence at important book fairs for instance:

Turin – International Book Fair and Frankfurter Buchmesse (very important international fairs that offer the opportunity to meet the people in cherge of the most prestigious University Press publishers of the world. With its presence, Edizioni PLUS reinforces its contacts with the foreign public and consolidates its position on the foreign market); Bibliocom – Rome (Edizioni PLUS is present at the Libraries Association Congress, which takes place every year in Rome).

The website, as tool for information about activities has now reached the rhythm of 40.000 ‘hits’ per month.

In its three years activities Edizioni PLUS has collaborated with CLIOH/CLIOHnet, the EuropeanThematic Network for History in carrying out its publishing and audiovisual projects. Furthermore PLUS has issued a number of publications, of scholarly and wider public interest (more details on

http://www.edizioniplus.it/inglese/AspFiles/index.asp

).

Participating Institution nr. 32. University of Groningen
Type: University. Faculties: Divinity & Religious Studies, Law, Arts, Medical Sciences, Social Sciences, Mathematics & Natural Sciences, Management and Organization, Economics, Philosophy, Spatial Sciences;

Size: Institution in terms of a.) personnel: about 5500 in absolute numbers (2001) and 4291 in full time equivalents (2001) b.) learners 20532 (2002); Male to Female ratio: 51/49;

Expertise: History;

Experience: Vast experience in national and trans-national exchanges (Socrates and Tempus); central co-ordination of ECTS Pilot Project History Subject Area (1989-1995), national co-ordination ECTS, (inter)national counselling ECTS (since 1995), central co-ordination of the project Tuning Educational Structures in Europe (since 2000).

Participating Institution nr. 33 University of Utrecht
Type: Higher Education Institution

Size: a.6739, b. 21317;

Expertise:

Local Level: Teaching

Teaching Undergraduate 20th century Political, Social, Gender History;

Developing & teaching undergraduate Women’s’ History Programme;

Teaching Gender & History in Middle Ages to Present, Philosophy of History, Methodology;

National Level: Teaching

Development and Teaching first Women’s History Graduate Course;

Co-teaching graduate courses in Women’s History;

Staff Member for History (Teaching and Tutorials) in International PhD-Programme in Women’s Studies at Utrecht University;

Involved in International Archive of Women’s History (Policy and Educational Projects);

Experience: International Level: Teaching and Cooperation Projects:

ATHENA – European SOCRATES Thematic Network for Women’s Studies: Member of the ATHENA Task Force on Teaching History of Feminism and Women’s Studies;

Development, Coordination and Teaching of Women’s History Cluster in annual European Summer School in Women’s Studies (Development Programme, assignments, Didactics, Focus on European Comparative History of the 19^th and 20^th Centuries;

Comparative Research Project History of Social Work 1900-1950

Comparative Research Project History of Feminism and Imperialism.

Participating Institution nr. 34. University of Graz
Type: University. Main areas: Business Administration, Arts, Geography, Geology, Languages and Philological Sciences, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Communication and Information Management, Humanities and Cultural Sciences, Computer sciences, Others. Types of Activities: Classical University teaching and training. Following degree studies: Magister, Doktor, participating in various European Union Programmes;

Size: a. 2244, b. 19.000;

Expertise: Types of Activities: Classical University teaching and training, Following degree studies: Magister, Doktor, participating in various European Union Programmes;

Experience: The Karl-Franzens-University has substantial experience in cooperation at local, regional, national and especially trans-national level. The University and its numerous departments, e.g. take part in the following programmes: Socrates, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci, Thematic Application Programmes and Tempus/Ceepus. Especially the Department of History is very actively involved in activities and programmes on a national and trans-national level. It does not only participate in Socrates/Erasmus, but was also one of the first (1992), which introduced ECTS in its curriculum.

Participating Institution nr. 35. Universidade Aberta

Type: Universidade Aberta, the Portuguese distance teaching public university, created in 1988, has its headquarters in Lisboa, two regional centers, in Coimbra and in Porto, and study centers all over the country.

Universidade Aberta offers a great variety of courses: undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, teacher training and continuing education courses, as well as Summer courses for foreigners.

All undergraduate and teacher training programmes work on the distance learning mode while the majority of post-graduations programmes operate on the face-to-face mode. As for the continuing education courses, they are mostly run at a distance.

Universidade Aberta is one of the largest national producers of university didactic materials. The printed materials, which constitute the core of the University's courses, are usually complemented by one or more of the following learning facilities: videocassettes, audiocassettes, CD-ROMs, Internet, TV and radio broadcasts.

Size: Teaching and research staff (professors and lectures): 179; Technical and Administrative staff: 330.Learners: 11 000

Expertise:

Research and Teaching of History and Interdisciplinary Studies. Master and Doctors Degrees on History. We are now testing a post-graduation distance learning programme on Mediterranean studies, in a partnership with other European universities.

Experience in cooperation: Univ. Aberta has a considerable experience both at a national and international level. Besides its involvement in National cooperation with several Portuguese institutions, and in projects with African Portuguese Speaking countries and Timor, it participates as coordinator or partner in several EC programmes, a few examples:

Socrates/Erasmus: "O Mediterrâneo, encruzilhada de povos e culturas", 29194-IC-1-2001-2-PT-ERASMUS-PROG-2 (coord. Univ. Ab)

Socrates/Lingua: "Português… (inter)Acção!" (PINTAC), 87851-CP-1-2000-PT-Lingua-D (coord. Univ. Ab)

Socrates/ODL: "ODL Migrations: afirming diversity through migration", 56073-CP-2-99-1-PT-ODL-ODL (coord. Univ. Ab)

Connect Initiative: GESPOSIT: Gestão de conflitos e da violência pela mediação escolar (escola/família), Programa de Educação Pessoal e Social - CONNECT/XXII/99PO-001 (coord. Univ. Ab)

Leonardo da Vinci: REFLECT - Review of Foreign Language and Cultural Needs, UK/00/B/P/LA-129_179 (U.Ab partner)

RTD Framework Programme: Telematics: SELECT: Strategies for European Language Engineering - enhanced; LE4-8304 (U.Ab partner).

Participating Institution nr. 36. University of Coimbra
Type: Higher Education. All areas of study included in the Erasmus code list, excepting Agricultural Sciences, Teaching and Research. The University of Coimbra is a leading institution of Portuguese Academia. Dated from 1290 it has been the sole University in the country until the beginning of the XXth century.

Size: a. 1454 teaching staff, 1179 administrative staff b. 23394 students of which 2300 graduated in 2002/2003;

Expertise: The University of Coimbra has a large experience in different European Programmes from their beginning, either as coordinator or as partner institution. The University of Coimbra has a great experience in international cooperation and internationalisation is one of its main priorities. To support this policy the University has a central unit – the International Relations, Projection and Communication Unit.

The Department of History have been also participating in several European projects, most of them within Socrates/Erasmus Programme; The University is a major origin and destination for SOCRATES/ERASMUS interchange in the country, receiving and sending, almost in balance, around 500 students per year (500 incoming and 500 outgoing students). Experience: The experience of the University of Coimbra involves its participation in the following Programmes: Socrates/Erasmus, Comenius, Lingua, Tempus, Thematic Networks, ALFA, EU/USA, EU/CANADA, EU/AUSTRALIA. Also important is the exchange with countries such as China, Japan and Brazil. The University of Coimbra is also a member of important Networks such as the Coimbra Group, Utrecht Network.,Tordesillas Group, CUM, EUA, IAU, etc.

In the History Group, awareness and commitment to the European dimension in Higher Education is central. The Group belongs to the CLIOH/ClioNet thematic network and has participated in the Tuning project in 2001/2002, in Tuning II in 2002/2003 and was one of the evaluated institutions in the Trans-national European Evaluation Project (TEEP-2202). The Group further participates in a Master in European Studies (CDA) since 1996, and, more recently, in an Intensive Program on European Identity and Multiculturalism, together with other ten European universities. The Group has strong and sustained ties with non-European countries, specially Brazil and other Portuguese speaking countries.
Participating Institution nr. 37. New University of Lisbon
Type: University. The New University of Lisbon - Universidade Nova de Lisboa - is a Public Institution of Higher Education and Scientific Research. It is the most recently established State University in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area. It integrates high level technological knowledge with updated perspectives in the social , human, law and health sciences. This university includes five Faculties - Colleges - three Institutes and one National School of Public Health. Soon another High School of Heritage and Restoration will become part of the UNL. The University grants degrees in 37 fields and teaches about 30 Postgraduate and 60 Master programmes.

The Universidade Nova de Lisboa was founded on the 11th August 1973, and is the most recent of Lisbon’s three state universities. Integrated in a framework of expansion and diversification of higher education. UNL consists of multi-faculty-institute units, each having a large measure of autonomy. The various units are firmly rooted in broad fields of study and continuously adapt and change as subjects develop. Moreover, research centres, libraries, laboratories and hospitals have been organized to foster interdisciplinary research and graduate teaching.

Size: Personnel: Teaching staff of the FCSH: 342; Administrative staff of the FCSH: 98 The Department of History comprises 22 Lecturers and 21 Professors. Learners: Number of students of the FCSH: 4950

Expertise: The Department of History of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences promotes the teaching and the research of History, with a special focus on the following fields: History of the Pre-Classical Civilizations; Medieval History of Portugal; Early-Modern History of Portugal; History of the Portuguese Overseas Expansion; History of 19^th and 20^th century Portugal.

Experience: In 1997 the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences joined the SOCRATES programme and extended bilateral agreements with several academic institutions from the EU member state countries for student and teaching staff exchange, as well as for joint projects for curriculum development. The Department of History has agreements with the following EU universities: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela; Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon); Université François Rabelais (Tours); Universidad de Cantabria (Santander); Universiteit Gent; Universidad de Salamanca; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Rijksuniversiteit Leiden; Université Marc Bloch (Strasbourg II); Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Technische Universität Dresden; École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales; Universität Wien.

Participating Institution nr. 38. Univeristy of Helsinki


Type: University. Main areas of activity are teaching and research in various fields of study

Size: a. 6822, b. 36822;

Expertise: The University of Helsinki and the Renvall Institute have advanced programmes in European History, including Russian and British

Experience: The University of Helsinki has actively participated in several EU-funded programmes such as Socrates, Tempus, Leonardo da Vinci, Jean Monnet, Alfa and the 5th framework program for R & D. Altogether some 250 projects where the University of Helsinki staff are involved are currently funded by the EU. The History Department has actively participated in programmes such as Socrates and Nordplus, both in the level of student exchange and the staff mobility.

ECTS Subject Area group and CLIOH PROG members.

Participating Institution nr. 39. University of Turku
Type: University. 6 faculties (faculty of humanities, of mathematics and natural sciences, of medicine, of law, of social sciences, of education); 10 special units; the university co-ordinates 11 nationwide graduate schools.

Size: a. personnel 2711, b.17376 , Master’s degrees 1069, Licentiates 56, Doctorates 117.

Expertise: One of the main fields of the university is cultural interaction and integration in which the department of history has a central role as the co-ordinator of a nationwide graduate school on this theme. A recent new initiative has been the founding of a new department (in year 2001) dedicated to the research of cultural production and landscape studies. This was made by the initiative of the department of history and history is closely attached to its programmes.

At the moment the history department is working in a pilot project (together with the department of history of University of Tampere) to create a virtual university of history. In the faculty of humanities there is also a Master’s programme in English “Baltic Sea Region Studies” which is a multidisciplinary programme concentrating on the North-East part of Europe.

Experience: The department has participated in Erasmus/Sokrates student exchange and in Nordic Exchange Programme Nordplus for years and has had good experiences of the ECTS system (because a credit system exists in Finland since the early 1980's it has been easy to use the ECTS system). The department of history was appointed a centre of excellence in academic teaching by the Ministry of Education in 1997. This enabled the department to start an annual international conference series (e.g. on time, memory, space, change) in Turku which has greatly improved the possibilities of students to have international.

Participating Institution nr. 40. University of Uppsala
Type: EDU.4 University. Subject areas 02-16 (all education and research in all subject except the agricultural sciences);

Size: a. 3173 teaching staff, 1799 administrative staff, b. 31000 full-time students plus 8000 part-time students;

Expertise: Expertise at the Department of History covers many fields, i.e. social, economic, political, etc., from ancient to contemporary history;

Experience: ECTS pilot project in history since 1992, student exchanges, CDI: “The History and Reality in Europe” and “Re-founding Europe: Creating Links, Insights and Overviews for a new History Agenda”, IP’s in Bologna, Gent, Reykjavik, Roskilde, Pisa (2 times), "Tuning Educational Structures in Europe".

Participating Institution nr. 41. University of Aberdeen
Type: University, with Faculties of Arts & Divinity, Medicine, Science & Engineering, Social Services & Law;

Size: a. 677 teaching staff, 161 administrative staff, b. 9385 full-time students, 1281 part-time students;

Expertise: Areas of teaching and research include: Non-Anglocentric British History from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century; North Sea and Baltic History in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods; contacts with Scotland and the Americas and Empire; the History of Diet, Disease and Death from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century; and Coal, Oil, Capital and Labour in Modern and Contemporary Europe.

Experience: The University of Aberdeen currently holds approximately 200 bilateral agreements with institutions in 19 European countries. In terms of research activity the University has been particularly active in promoting and applying for funding under framework 5.

The Department of History currently maintains Socrates/Exchange links with the Universities of GHENT, LEUVEN, GREIFSWALD, KIEL, SOUTH DENMARK, BARCELONA, PECS, AMSTERDAM, GOTHENBERG, AMSTERDAM, SORBONNE NOUVELLE, ABO, RIGA AND GRONINGEN.

It was also one of the founder members in 1996 of the Northern European Historical research Network, and has coordinated conferences and publications of the Northern group since its foundation.


Participating Institution nr. 42. University of Sussex (Brighton)
Type: The University of Sussex was founded in 1961 and quickly established a position among the UK’s leading institutions, exhibiting excellence across a wide range of disciplines, a strong interdisciplinary tradition and a distinctive and high-quality learning experience. Sussex is a medium-sized university, offering about 200 undergraduate degrees and 120 taught postgraduate programmes; supervision for MPhil and DPhil degrees is also available. The disciplines which can be studied at Sussex are: Law, Management Studies, Medicine, Education, Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, Sciences, Engineering, Computing and Information Technology.

The University has a strong international focus with links with institutions across the world, and teaching and research staff from 40 nations. About 2,300 students come from outside the UK, from over 100 countries. There is a large study abroad programme with one in seven undergraduate students spending a year in other European countries, North or South America.

Size: a. 515 teaching faculty, 295 research faculty, 615 administrative staff, 3265 part-time students, 10313 full-time students, 2719 graduates 2001-2002;

Expertise: History at Sussex has an international research reputation. Its research and teaching concentrates on all aspects of contemporary History, British and European History since 1500, Intellectual History, and Life History. The History Group lays particular emphasis on social, cultural, political and economic history of the 19th and 20th centuries; on Early Modern social, intellectual and religious history; on life history and oral history research; and on gender and women's history in a wide range of countries. For individual areas of research and potential supervisors, see Faculty Research Interests;

Experience: Postgraduate history at Sussex reflects the excellence of the History Group's research standing. Over almost four decades Sussex has been in the vanguard of historical research in Great Britain and Europe. Its plurality of scholarship, the interdisciplinarity of its structures, its closeness to the academic resources of both London and the Continent, and its lively, multicultural and stimulating community life make it ideal for graduate history students from all over the world.