Sofia Platform Foundation (Sofia)
Sofia Platform’s work is characterised by two main strands: historical and political education throughout Bulgaria, particularly in regions outside the capital; and its involvement in the core identity debate that many Central and Eastern Europeans find themselves in post-transition: who are we now, and why are we who we are? Sofia Platform was originally founded in 2013 in response to the Arab Spring, in order to support those countries in transition phases through lessons learned and personal experiences. Since 2014, its focus has been on the question of how the lack of addressing the transition affects the current social and political situation in Bulgaria. Sofia Platform has a large network of national and international experts in many fields of education, such as historians, teachers and cultural workers, and is part of Networking European Citizenship Education (NECE) and Networking Arab Civic Education (NACE).
The workshop explores the way the generation of transition understands the notion of “otherness” and how their current perception has been influenced by the process of transition towards democracy in the post-communist space. The participants present the results of a small scale study on the
Communism and its long shadows Bulgaria embarked on the path to transition towards democracy on 10 November 1989 when the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party relieved Todor Zhivkov of his duties as a Secretary General of the Party and as a Head of
OTHERNESS THROUGH THE EYES OF THE GENERATION OF TRANSITION IN BULGARIA The biggest and arguably most important group of people in Bulgaria today is the so called “generation of transition”. Those are the individuals, born between the late 1960s/early1970s and 1989. They are currently taking
