Socrates programme

Please provide 4 copies of each one of the first three products of your priority list, together with your application.

The ‘copies’ we include are constituted as follows. Naturally at this point in the third year of the project we do not yet have the final versions of the products. However we provide here the documentation necessary to show what is planned and what the products will be like. The first three priority products are :

1) for general information about the existence of the Network and its activities consisting of the website (www.clioh.net) of which we provide the first page. The site now contains more than one hundred pages, so we believe that it can best be evaluated by entering it directly. We also supply copies of the brochure which we printed in the second year of activities, in 24 languages: we are now preparing a new edition, somewhat larger and naturally updated and corrected, which will be the actual tool for dissemination of knowledge about the Network. The website leads through its links to the national realities as well.

2) For the second priority we include two of the several items which will constitute the basis for the CLIOHnet Tuning report: a series of questionnaires on the status of History in European Universities today and the Tuning Line 2 paper. The report to be disseminated is now being finalised in the present third year of the project.

3) As to the materials to be diffused, we indicate the volumes created in the Clioh’s Workshop project and the t/l units developed from them. These books are now being published in pdf for free downloading, and hence will constitute a very important resource for dissemination. We include here the indexes of all the volumes published so far (we will publish another one on Citizenship this year and one on National Languages next year: these will be included in the dissemination.

4. 
   Demonstrate the high quality of the finalised products, considering particularly the extent to which they fulfil the general objectives of the Thematic Networks action (educational innovation, contribution to study area, European dimension, specific and European impact of the co-operation, wider application of good practice and dialogue between academic, socio-economic or any other relevant partner).
   

The products that we have created and are creating have both high scientific-academic quality -- because they have been produced by Coordinators with high academic standing, who have however accepted and responded to the challenge of using their knowledge to produce materials which are attractive and understandable to general readers and users, and also utilisable for comparison and connection with other national histories. The HE reference points and guidelines are also of the highest quality because they have been produced in collaboration, through a process of information, discussion, drafting, debate, perfecting and finalising, carried out by members from all countries eligible for Socrates. Hence, by the very method of their creation, they are innovative, they could not have been produced at a previous lower level of European cooperation; they represent a real trans-national contribution to the study area; the European dimension is built in to all the products and is their raison d’être. Through dissemination of these products, we hope to reach most institutions in Europe, at least to inform them of the offer of information that we can make. The wider application of good practice is our goal: we believe that institutions and students themselves, will work towards application, after they come into direct contact with the broader and more exciting and timely way which we have developed of approaching History and related subjects. Our dialogue with socio-economic partners outside the academic area is developing: the new partnerships formed with public bodies in this dissemination project should lead the way for further developments. CLIOHnet looks to its collaboration in the ‘Archipelago’ as a further important way of involving the non academic sphere.

5. 
   Specify and justify the assessment criteria and procedure adopted and the actors involved in the internal quality evaluation of your project.
   

Our assessment criteria are the baselines of our TN action: in all situations we try to bring a variety of points of view together around a relevant theme, discussing and gathering the resulting insights, writing them up and discussing them, making final products as fine as we are able. This is the methodology we have adopted in our meetings, in our IPs, in our Conferences and in the books we have published.

In the case of our books, the principles are that there must always be a plurality of national viewpoints; there should always be a broad geographical and chronological spectrum; the national or original languages should always be present in every way possible. We promote the idea that European citizens should not limit their linguistic knowledge to one national language and one vehicular language and try to make familiar to students, teachers and the general public that we are a multilingual polity, and that each history, tradition or identity is tightly linked to linguistic facts.

Our general method of gathering knowledge from every country, organising it, discussing it, and finalising it in an agreed way is also the method we used in Tuning to elaborate the history reference points. Level indicators and subject specific competences. It is the method we are now using to create the CLIOHnet-Tuning paper on Approaches to Teaching-Learning and Assessment and Quality. Once the products have been made they are available for distribution, use, testing and comment by anyone. We emphasize the public nature of what we do. We ask users to fill out evaluation forms, which we take into account to improve our products.

The actors are all members of the Network, their students and colleagues, the users of our products; the Central Coordinator and the Coordinating Committee have the primary responsibility in being sure that the products are indeed of excellent quality according to the criteria we have stated. They are assisted in this by the external evaluators.

6. Dissemination and exploitation methodology (maximum 4 pages)

1. 
   Describe the general strategy for dissemination and exploitation of the high quality and finalised product and outcomes. Specify the target groups related to each product and outcome (including European co-operation among all eligible countries).
   

Our general dissemination strategy is the following. To use the work done in the three years of the programme to advantage, as a learning how to disseminate effectively, and as a having produced information and insights to be disseminated. We repeat once more that in our view, dissemination is not only distributing, seeding crops, it is also uptake, engaging in debate and modifying where necessary the ideas we have developed until now. We intend to operate our strategy along three principle routes: thanks to the fact that we have already held National Meetings or will have held them in all countries except Turkey by the beginning of the dissemination year, in each country one institution will again organise a National meeting. This should be much easier and even more effective than the first time, because the interested parties in the country now know of the importance of the TN and in many cases have been in contact since the first National Meeting. Also, the process of change in European HE structures has gone ahead rapidly, and in most countries people have the perception that this is happening, This should add to their motivation to meet and actively discuss the issues which the National meetings place before them.

The National meetings (as well as all other dissemination efforts) will be able to depend on the important site-based and published materials, which will be distributed or publicised at the National Meetings.

The website will continue to provide the central resource to which all can refer.

Work with the specific ‘dissemination partners’ of each CLIOHnet partner (see point 7.4) should constitute an important entrée into wider circles. It is planned that each Coordinator, in agreement with the contact person indicated in the fiches under point 7.4, will arrange for special information days to be held in the dissemination partner institution or association – or in the case of reviews, the review will publish information on Cliohnet and materials.

The other aspects of the project – the student conference, the various sub-projects, Exogamie, the Archipelago and so forth, will also provide further ways of extending the dissemination process.

6.2 Specify a detailed work programme in table format (dates, activities, involvement and responsibilities of each partner, outcomes).

Date	Activity	Participants	Outcomes/products
1 Oct 04	Project begins	All members	[prepared in previous phase]
October 2004	Coordinating Committee meeting; Fall plenary meeting including Task Force meetings; inThessaloniki	Coordinating Committee; All members Logistics prepared by Pisa and Thessaloniki. All Coordinators are invited to participate.	Further detailed planning completed and materials ready for national meetings and ‘events’
Nov 2004- Jan 2005	First national meetings Distribution of CLIOHNET-Tuning booklet and other materials	Countries involved: CLIOHNET members, other institutions, journals, associations, national agencies if possible. Members of other TNs. The organisation in done by the partners indicated elsewhere in this proposal. All partners organise dissemination events with the partners listed under point 7.4	Dissemination and discussion of CLIOHNET reports and materials Knowledge of TN activities and opportunities Knowledge of CLIOHnet - Tuning findings
ca Feb 2005	Coordinating Committee half-way point meeting	Coordinating Committee	Evaluation and adjustment of work-plan
April 05	Further National Meetings and distribution of CLIOHNET-Tuning materials	Countries involved: CLIOHNET members, other institutions, journals, associations, national agencies if possible. Members of other TNs Organisation and responsibilities as above	Dissemination and discussion of CLIOHNET reports and materials Knowledge of TN activities and opportunities Knowledge of CLIOHnet -Tuning findings
May 2005	Spring plenary meeting, including Coordinating Committee meeting and Task Force meetings; planned to be held in Pisa in conjunction with Exogamie conference on Historical Context of Formation of National Languages	Coordinating Committee Entire network, students, staff teaching in confernce, including non-historians; Structured link with language and geography TNs	Communication about and evaluation activities; formation of new knowledge about language issue, cooperation with other networks Input from students; setting up student section of Network Strengthening links with Archipelago
June –Sep 2005	Any further national meetings or events	Countries involved: CLIOHNET members, other institutions, journals, associations, national agencies if possible, members of other TNS Organisation as above	Dissemination and discussion of CLIOHNET reports and materials, and so forth as above
End of project	Evaluation and final report	Coordinating committee assisted by other coordinators an experts as necessary	Final recommendations and report taking into consideration interaction and debate during the dissemination year activities

2. 
   Describe how the progress and functioning of the project will be monitored.
   

The first responsibility for monitoring the progress of the activities and solving any problems that may occur is of the Central Coordinator, assisted by the Coordinating Committee. Also the Task Force Leaders and the organisers of National Meetings or other Work Groups (in the dissemination year there will also be the Archipelago Team and work groups on mapping and on Teacher Training) are responsible for monitoring and informing the Central Coordinator of any problems or delays so that necessary action may be taken. In the proposed dissemination year, the complexity of the activities – including the dissemination actions with the dissemination partners, institutions and reviews – will be extremely complex and will make it necessary to use forms of on-line reporting. However, with the experience which has already been gained we are confident that the planned activities can be carried out satisfactorily.

4. 
   Describe how the project will be evaluated (indicate the means envisaged for both internal and external evaluation), particularly with regard to any impact evaluation envisaged.
   

Evaluation has several different stages, the first of which are again the responsibility of the Coordinating Committee and the Central Coordinator. The Plenary meetings are also engaged in evaluation which they are presented with the state of affairs and able to observe and discuss in the meetings. The Network has also asked three prestigious ecternal experts to attend their meetings and observe, evaluate and advise. Indeed the intention is to attempt to evaluate impact, in the Institutions themselves, in the dissemination partners’ institutions; we will attempt to measure the increase in visitors to the website and to evaluate the effects of disseminating the CLIOHnet reference points on institutions engaged in curricular innovation.

4. 
   Indicate the working language(s) of the project.
   

The working language for Network activities is English. However multilinguism is important in the CLIOHnet philosophy. Many activities and products have a multilingual component. For example the IPs are usually in more than one language, the books all have summaries in the native languages of the authors and documents in the original languages and in translation. The depliant which we distributed this year in 23.000 copies was in 24 languages, and the new edition which we intend to disseminate in the proposed dissemination year will include other languages and some errors in printing will be corrected.

N.B: Please note that the applicant may be asked to submit further details regarding the envisaged calendar of events during the year focusing on the Dissemination and exploitation of project results, if the application is successful.

7. Partnership composition and contribution

[7.0] To give an overview of the information given under point 7.1, partner by partner, please note that all the Universities listed are of course Institutions of Higher Education; most have History Degree Programmes for the first, second and third cycles. Some have a history section in their Arts or humanities degree. Each has specific fields of expertise, usually in the sector of national history, as well as general and world history. There is a mixture of large, small, public and private universities. As to the other full partners they are the UK Primrose Publishing (which is specialised in producing interactive multilingual learning/teaching materials and has collaborated with CLIOHnet in producing a 'University' programme for students and teachers linguistic needs in 30 languages; Edizioni PLUS is the University of Pisa publishing house which has collaborated with CLIOHnet in printing the Clioh's Workshop books, videos and DVDs; Digidocs is an Italian non-profit association devoted to making available history texts on line which has collaborate in disseminating CLIOHnet materials; the Province of Lucca is a public body which has a strong interest the historical and cultural aspects of its adminstrative activities and whose partnership we hope may inspire other such bodies to collaborate with CLIOHnet.

Among the partner Universities, most have had the experience of working in the CLIOH PROG project, many in the Tuning and TEEP 2002 projects. All have been involved in the Clioh’s Workshop I and II projects, some as co-organisers. Most have participated in various IPs, some have organised IPs. Thirty of the institutions have – or will have by the end of the third year of CLIOHNET activities, have already organised a national CLIOHNET meeting or a bi-national CLIOHNET meeting and will have prepared a directory of the HE Institutions, the associations and other interested parties in their country.

To clarify the TN related expertise, we summarise this information in the table below. As is evident expertise and participation are well diffused. The new partners, who have become involved in the Network through the national meetings and other activities, are also well informed about activities and motivated to expand them.

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Table of Expertise in Project (Activities already carried out or to be carried out by end of third year)

No	Country and name	CLIOHNET	CLIOH	CLIOH-DISS	CLIOHNET National Meeting organiser	CLIOHNET Task Force	IP organiser	Clioh’s Workshop co-organiser	Clioh’s Workshop II co-organiser	Tuning	TEEP
1	IT Pisa	X	X	X		X	X	X	X	X	X
2	BE Gent	X	X	X	X	X	X	X		X
3	DK Roskilde	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
4	DE Bielefeld	X	X	X
5	DE Bochum	X							X
6	DE Hanover	X	X	X		X					X
7	DE Leipzig	X	X	X
8	DE Tuebingen	X	X	X
9	GR Athens	X	X	X	-X-	X		X		X
10	GR Thessaloniki	X	X	X	X	X					X
11	ES Alcalà	X	X	X		X		X
12	ES	X
13	ES Deusto	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X
14	ES Madrid A.	X	X	X	X	X	X				X
15	ES Madrid Carlos III	X
16	ES	X	X	X		X		X	X
17	ES Valencia	X			X					X
18	FR Grenoble	X	X	X	X					X	X
19	FR Paris IV	X
20	FR Poitiers	X	X	X	X	X
21	FR Rouen	X	X	X					X
22	IE Cork	X	X	X						X
23	IE Galway	X		X	X	X			X		X
24	IT Bologna	X	X	X	X	X	X			X	X
25	IT Milan	X		X		X			X
26	IT Padua	X		X		X		X	X	X	X
28	IT Rome 1	X
29	IT Rome 3	X		X		X	X	X	X	X	X
30	IT Digidocs	X	X	X
31	Edizioni PLUS							X	X
32	NL Groningen	X	X	X						X	X
33	NL Utrecht	X			X	X
34	AT Graz	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X
35	PT Aberta	X
36	PT Coimbra	X	X	X	X	X		X	X	X	X
37	PT Lisbon	X
38	FI Helsinki	X
39	FI Turku	X			X	X				X	X
40	SE Uppsala	X	X	X	X	X				X
41	UK Aberdeen	X									X
42	UK Brighton (Sussex)	X	X	X	X						X
43	UK Cardiff	X
44	UK Edinburgh	X	X	X
45	UK Swansea	X								X
46	UK Primrose Publishing	X	X	X
47	IS Reykjavik	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
48	NO Bergen	X	X	X	-X-					X
49	BG Sofia	X	X	X	X	X					X
50	CZ Brno	X		X					X
51	CZ Prague	X		X	X	X			X
52	EE Tartu	X	X	X	X					X
53	CY Cyprus	X		X	-X-	X
54	LV Riga	X	X	X	X	X	X		X		X
55	LT Vilnius	X	X	X	-X-	X
56	HU Budapest	X
57	HU Debrecen	X	X	X	X	X			X
58	HU Miskolc
59	MT Malta	X			-X-	X
60	PL Krakow	X	X	X
61	PL Torun	X			-X-
62	RO Cluj-Napoca	X	X	X	X	X			X
63	RO Suceava
64	SI Maribor	X	X	X	X
65	SK Bratislava	X	X	X	-X-
66	TR Adana)	ECTS / DS Pilot Project for Turkey
67	TR Ankara (Middle East)
68	TR Istanbul (Fatih)
69	TR Trabzon
70	CH Basel	X	X		X
71	CH ISHA	X

1. 
   Provide for the co-ordinating institution and each of the other institutions participating in the dissemination project, the following information:
   

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  size of the institution in terms of the total number of (a) personnel (absolute numbers and full-time equivalents) and (b) learners;
  

expertise of the institution in the field covered by the project and experience in co-operation at local, regional, national and trans-national level (Socrates and other). Indicate experience both in content and project organisation. 7.1 Provide for the co-ordinating institution and each of the other institutions participating in the dissemination project, the following information:

type of institution, main areas and types of activity;

size of the institution in terms of the total number of (a) personnel (absolute numbers and full-time equivalents) and (b) learners;

expertise of the institution in the field covered by the project and experience in co-operation at local, regional, national and trans-national level (Socrates and other). Indicate experience both in content and project organisation.

Coordinating Institution. University of Pisa

Type: University. 11 Faculties including all principal subject areas except architecture.

Size: a. 1789 teaching staff, 1619 administrative staff, b. 47634 full-time students, of which 3086 graduated in 2001/2002;

Expertise: The University of Pisa has an ancient and continuing tradition of excellence in humanistic and historical studies. The Faculty of Letters and Philosophy has a degree course in History: inaugurated in 1974 it was among the first in Italy; all epochs are included, from Ancient times to the present; there is also a specific sector devoted to Religious History. In 2001-2002 new study plans in “European History and Culture” and ”History of the Environment and Territory” were approved. Because of the Faculty structure the four large History and Archaeology departments have the support of important linguistic, philological, geographical and art history resources; they count on the experience of ICT and ODL on a world scale (Pisa coordinates a consortium of 23 Italian Universities in an Internet course of study for the laurea degree in Italian language and Literature; and the CIBIT project which has placed on the web the Italian literary patrimony). From 2001-2002 a new degree course began in Informatics for Humanistic studies.

Experience: The History degree course of the University of Pisa has participated since the beginning in the ECTS History Network, taking an active role. ECTS was extended to the entire University in 1995-6. Under SOCRATES, Prof. Isaacs, of the Modern and Contemporary History Department, coordinator of CLIOHNET, also coordinates the CLIOH PROG project, as well as the other international activities of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy. Pisa has two Intensive Programme on “Empires states and regions in a European Perspective” and on "Political Systems and Definitions of Gender Roles" and a European conference on “The Present of the Past: History in European Universities. Comparison, Innovation, harmonisation”. The Faculty has more than 100 bilateral agreements for teaching and research.