On 12 April 2021, a five-day training for experts of the Council of Europe Project “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine” began online.
The purpose of the training is to train the teams of trainers, experts to perform efficient and meaningful planning, implement and evaluate capacity-building activities, support actions and other events under the Council of Europe Project “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine”.
On the first day of the training, Antje Rotemund, the Head of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe, welcomed the participants of the training and outlined the news in the youth policy field.
Olena Lytvynenko, Deputy Head of the Council of Europe Office in Ukraine, welcomed the participants and presented the history of establishing the Council of Europe Office in Ukraine and the projects being currently implemented in Ukraine under the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine 2018-2022.
Maryna Popatenko, Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports of Ukraine, took the floor with a welcoming speech and news of the legislation in the field of youth policy of Ukraine.
The Project “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine” is implemented within the framework of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine 2018-2022 and is based on previous experience and fruitful bilateral cooperation between the Council of Europe and the Ministry of Youth and Sport of Ukraine within the Framework Programme on Cooperation between the Council of Europe and the Ministry of Youth and Sport of Ukraine in the Field of Youth Policy for 2016-2020.
The project consists of three components with cross-cutting activities:
10 communities in Ukraine were invited to cooperate within a project in order to take joint measures aimed at building capacity, strengthening youth participation, developing an inclusive local youth policy and implementing the necessary measures in line with the standards of the Council of Europe.
14 youth centres of all levels in Ukraine are invited to cooperate within the project to review approaches in order to ensure that their strategies meet the needs of young people and are in line with the Council of Europe standards on youth civic participation and youth work.
- Educational activities to build intercultural dialogue and social cohesion and expansion of opportunities for minority groups through youth participation at the local and regional levels.
In 2020 and early 2021, the Project “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine”
- provided mentoring support for participants of a long-term training course for trainers on human rights education for young people from various oblasts of Ukraine to be integrated into non-formal education programmes and youth education for democratic citizenship and human rights education;
- Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe CM/REC(2016)7 on young people's access to rights, Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe CM/REC(2015)3 on the access of young people from disadvantaged neighbourhoods to social rights was translated into Ukrainian;
- series of “Council of Europe Quality Label for Youth Centres” manuals: “Good practice in youth centres”, “Role, Value and Impact of Youth Centres”, “Quality Management in Youth Centres” was translated into Ukrainian;
- The Dictionary of Terminology used by the Council of Europe in Youth Policy, Human Rights and Non-formal Education was prepared and issued.
The Project “Youth for Democracy in Ukraine” is implemented within the framework of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine 2018-2022 and is based on previous experience and fruitful bilateral cooperation between the Council of Europe and the Ministry of Youth and Sport of Ukraine within the Framework Programme on Cooperation between the Council of Europe and the Ministry of Youth and Sport of Ukraine in the Field of Youth Policy for 2016-2020.
Read more about the Council of Europe's project and resources in the field of youth at: https://www.coe.int/uk/web/kyiv/youth-for-democracy-in-ukraine
