The Educational Platform of the Center for Urban History offers resources that aim to decentralize the curriculum of Eastern Europe by diversifying primary materials, challenging established grand narratives, and creating new approaches to teaching and learning about this region.

We aspire to create an Educational platform that shapes a space of interaction and learning for those who teach and study history. More generally, we strive to enhance bottom-up perspectives, local voices, and individual experiences in the ways history is taught in the classroom and discussed in public.

The Platform addresses multidirectional cooperation, from translating and sharing primary sources to reflections on teaching in diverse contexts. EDUPlatform is based on principles of openness of information (open-access), inclusiveness of history (peripheral and marginalized perspectives), and critical reading of sources. We aim to discover, explore and co-create together. These three concepts make a basis for our educational activities: we create possibilities to discover history, explore various subjects to access knowledge, and create content with our audience and community.

to make accessible materials from private collections and local archives;

to diversify primary resources for learning and teaching and to provide a critical reading of sources;

to make available digitized archival sources from Eastern Europe by translating from Ukrainian, Polish, Yiddish, Russian, and German to English, but also from Yiddish, Polish, and German to Ukrainian;

to prepare the selections of sources in the form of modules or courses;

to share reflections on learning and teaching and explore experiences from different disciplines and cultural contexts.