This article was written by Lidija Zupanic Suica, teacher and director of Education for the 21st Century in Serbia. It was originally published on Education for the 21st Century’s website, which you can visit here. As part of the Monumental Challenges project (2023–2025), led by … Read More
The Swedish workshop took place on October 27th, in Hudiksvall, a smaller city about 270 kilometres north of Stockholm. Invited to the workshop were teachers from Hudiksvall municipality and the neighbouring municipality of Ljusdal. All those invited were history teachers working with students ages 7 to 19, along with… Read More
The national workshop on the “Monumental Challenges” project was held within the framework of the IV Belgrade History Education Symposium, organised by Education for the 21st Century on October 31, 2025, at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. The workshop brought together 30 participants from across Serbia,… Read More
On September 6, 2025, seventeen teachers and museum educators spent a full day exploring how monuments can be used as starting points for historical inquiry and civic discussion during the Monument(al) Challenges workshop in Bari, guided by the two experts: Emma Abbate and Stefania Gargioni. The event aimed to… Read More
On May 9, 2025, the Northern Ireland workshop on Monument(al) Challenges took place. The key focus of the training built on the ‘Train the Trainers’ Seminar in The Hague, where an overview of Monument(al) Challenges, Case Studies and Contested Histories were presented. Building on the Northern Ireland presentation in the… Read More
On April 29, 2025, a Monumental Challenges National Workshop was held at Gazi University’s Faculty of Education, History Department in Ankara, Türkiye. The workshop brought together 22 participants, including academics, teachers, and teacher trainees specialising in History, Social Science, and Civic Studies. Morning Session: Ayse Bilgic introduced… Read More
On February 15th, a seminar consisting of three presentations and workshops as well as a historical walk in the city and a visit at the War Museum in Thessaloniki, a tiny space of which hosts – quite contradictory – a collection of objects and documents on the resistance to… Read More
History teachers Stefania Gargioni (Belgium) and Emma Abbate (Italy) reflect on their recent participation as a team in the Monument(al) Challenges International Workshop, which was held in Belgrade from April 12 to 14. They share insights gathered from this educational experience. The recently concluded Monument(al) Challenges International… Read More
Monument(al) Challenges is a EuroClio project collaboratively implemented with the Contested Histories Initiative, aiming to respond to some of the challenges educators across Europe face in teaching history. Raising sensitive historical issues in the classroom and their connection to monuments in public spaces can be a tricky task for… Read More