Welcome to CHE – The research network for civic and history education in Europe


After three years of intense research, the results of the LLL-project (KA1) "Assessment, tutorial structures and initial teacher education of trainee students in the subjects Political/Civic Education, Social/Cultural Studies and History in Europe – a comparative study" are now available.

On this project's webport you will have access to the following informations and database/collections

With the following links you have access to the draft version of the full text of the comparative study:

General information on the project:

This research project is supported by the European Commission in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme KA1 (Studies and Comparative Research) and the ERSTE Foundation.

It is coordinated by the Department for Didactics of History, Social Studies and Civic Education at the University of Vienna, Austria.

More than 30 European universities and institutions from East and West, North and South, including the countries of South East Europe, the Russian Federation, Ukraine and Turkey, contributed to this project.

Contributors to the project are:

Council of Europe, Euroclio, Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, research institutes of universities as well as experts from Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo*, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

Project Manager from 2010 to 2012: Barbara Hollendonner; from (Dec.) 2012 to 2013: Cornelia Bruell

For all questions concerning the project please contact the coordinator of the project, Alois Ecker (alois.ecker@univie.ac.at).

* All reference to Kosovo, whether to the territory, institutions or population, in this text shall be understood in full compliance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 and without prejudice to the status of Kosovo.