Sofia Platform: Bridging Europe and the Middle East. Facilitating an in-dept conversation about the lessons learned, and not learned, in the transition.
How did the buoyant atmosphere of the #PragueSpring end so suddenly? With an invasion of 250,000+ Warsaw Pact soldiers on the night of August 20-21, 1968 — that's how. Stay tuned today to see our material on the #Soviet invasion of #Czechoslovakia! https://t.co/X1jlIgUn9v
Vor 50 Jahren, in der Nacht vom 20. auf den 21. August 1968 rücken Truppen der Warschauer-Pakt-Staaten in die CSSR ein. Sie zerschlagen die dortige Reformbewegung und beenden den #PragerFrühling.
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Sofia Platform on the road again! Our team visited schools in Zlatitsa, Teteven and Bansko for the second time - because we believe that topics such as #EuropeanIdentity, #EuropeanValues, #MinorityRights and the #civiceducation of young people matter!
Sofia Platform is looking for interns! If you are interested in #politics, #history, #democracy and #civiceducation, apply for our #internship position and become part of our international team! https://t.co/hQsD1ImaEg
“This is a period that is remembered in different and often very contradictory and mutually exclusive ways” - new website launched intended to help educators teach about the 1990s wars in former Yugoslavia. #teaching#recenthistory@EUROCLIO#remembrance https://t.co/QccD1Dx2zq
Renowned French-Bulgarian philospher, psychoanalyst, linguist and author Julia Kristeva has been revealed as an agent and collaborator with #Bulgaria’s #Communist-era secret service State Security. https://t.co/q20X7YpycF
Comment on the aftermath of the #EU-#Turkey leader's meeting by our director @LouisaSlavkova for @BloombergTVBG. Stay tuned for the video! https://t.co/7xjhBvog29
"Важното е да помним какво се е случило през 1968 г., за да не допускаме историята да се повтаря, не искаме комунизмът да се върне. А мисля, че не само в България, но и в Чехия младите не знаят какво е Пражката пролет" #Praguespring#50years#remembrance https://t.co/PBxN5KYT0e
What does #justice mean? What are our #rights and #responsibilities as #citizens? Yesterday our team was in Straldzha, discussing these questions and playing the Prisoner's dilemma with 11th graders - as part of our project "Civic Education in Action: Teaching Citizenship".
A great opportunity for young people who love writing and are passionate about the topics of #memory and #identity! @AnnaLindh and @IEMed_ have launched the 11th Youth Euromed Literary Contest: https://t.co/VipqD4ZhZs
2018 marks the 75. anniversary of the Rescue of Bulgarian Jews from deportation. On this occassion @sofplat is conducting series of lectures focusing on the role of civil society in the events of 1943. Yesterday we were in #Kurdzhali, talking about the importance of #remembrance.
#Ontheroadagain: след като в началото на седмицата бяхме в Пловдив и Тетевен, вчера посетихме Черноочене и Кърджали. Ето и любимата ни снимка от СОУ "Петко Р. Славейков", където се радвахме на много вдигнати ръце и много настроение :) https://t.co/8ErDxqwMrR