One of most recent initiatives of the History Foundation in the field of history education, namely Improvement of tehe Balkan History Textbooks Project , was completed in Semtember 2002. This eight-month pilot project was supported by UNESCO, the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Turkey. The planning metting in Istanbul (June 17th-18th,2001) was followed by a workshop in Pamporovo (Semtember 8th-9th, 2001) and a conferance in Istanbul (November 30th-December 2nd,2001), with the participation of teams from Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Romania and Turkey.