From 14 to 19 July 2024, the Council of Europe Project "Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase III" together with the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine conducted a first residential training seminar of the new long-term training course – a training for trainers in the field of youth.
The long-term training course contributes to the implementation of youth projects in Ukraine by developing the competencies of 28 youth workers, youth trainers, young activists, maintaining the quality of non-formal education and training activities in the war and post-war period, and will enable young people to actively support, protect, promote and benefit from the core values of the Council of Europe: human rights, democracy and the rule of law. Among participants of the course are representatives from 16 regions of Ukraine.
In his welcoming remarks to 28 participants, Andrii Chesnokov, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine, expressed his gratitude to the Council of Europe for the long and fruitful co-operation and stressed the importance of the new Long Training Course for Trainers in the Youth Sector.
Maja Micic-Lazovic, Senior Project Officer, the Youth Department of the Council of Europe, expressed gratitude to the Ministry of Youth and Sports in Ukraine for fruitful co-operation in strengthening youth policy and youth work and presented key standards, activities and resources of the Council of Europe in the field of youth policy and youth work.
The long-term training course is planned to implement during 12 months in a hybrid nature. The course includes three residential training seminars, mentoring, online learning elements, training practices, co-operative learning and individual guidance schemes. The course will itself apply the quality standards in non-formal education produced by the Youth Department of the Council of Europe.
The course is based on principles of non-formal education and include methodological approaches such as: experiential and task-based learning; individual and co-operative/peer learning; learning within organisations/institutions, and in connection with participants’ local work and their organisation/institution; competence-based learning.
- Details of the course and conditions in the Ukrainian language at the link: https://rm.coe.int/ukr-call-lttc-ua-2757-2277-9401-v-2/1680af7296
Project "Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase III" is implemented within the framework of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine 2023-2026 and is based on the results and experience of the Youth for Democracy in Ukraine projects in 2020-2022. The project expands the systematic impact by strengthening youth participation policies and strengthening youth work during the war and in the post-war context, taking into account the specific needs of young people.
The project encourages youth policy stakeholders in Ukraine to implement and disseminate the Recommendations of the Committee of Ministers to Member States: on the access of youth from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights, CM/Rec(2015)3; on young people's access to rights, CM/Rec(2016)7; on youth work, CM/Rec(2017)4; on Roma youth participation CM/Rec(2023)4; on protecting youth civil society and young people, and supporting their participation in democratic processes CM/Rec(2022)6.
News, Council of Europe resources in the field of youth and open announcements for participation in project activities can be found here.
