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We want it to make the activities of citizenship education providers in the region more visible and recognised.

We also see our catalogue as a platform for sharing experiences and borrowing the best ideas for promoting democracy in the region.

The catalogue is being created within the framework of the EENCE project “EENCE Citizenship Education University”, which is funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung / bpb) with funds allocated by the German Federal Foreign Office (programme “Enhancing Cooperation with Civil Society in the Eastern Partnership Countries)”.

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We start with Azerbaijan.

The Citizenship Education Week was organized by a consortium of organizations and experts from the East European Network of Citizenship Education (EENCE). The events of the Week are supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany.

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The Day of Georgia began with a discussion about the opportunities and problems of civic education in the country.

Moderator Maka Bibileishvili, Executive Director of CETF, and Nino Gvaramadze, expert of the CE Center for Professional Development of Teachers, reviewed the formal side of civic education in the country.

Maya Katamadze, Director of the Batumi Center for Education, Development and Employment, and I. A. Kitsmarishvili, a teacher of the CE, also discussed the topic of non-formal education.

The participants of the discussion noted that despite the fact that both educational institutions and NGOs are engaged in civic education, there are still many problems in this area.

Among the problems is the lack of understanding by many teachers and teachers of the importance of teaching civic education, the “soviet” mentality, which is still characteristic of some teachers.

Among the topics that are most relevant among the participants of civic education programs in Georgia are human rights, the prevention of early marriage, and the development of competencies important for active participation in society.

The participants of the discussion talked about different practices of civic education that are being implemented in different regions of Georgia.

The second event of the day was the presentation of the representative of the National Bank of Georgia, Senior Specialist of the Department of Financial Education Tinatin Gujabidze.

She revealed the topic of financial education as part of civic education in Georgia and shared an example of best practice with the participants.

Tinatin Gujabidze spoke about the experience of the financial literacy program, which is being implemented in Georgian schools with the support of the National Bank of Georgia. After the presentation, the speaker answered questions from the audience.

A lively discussion unfolded at the seminar “Critical Hermeneutics, critical Cosmopolitanism and critical Pedagogy – what teachers teach to teach”, which was conducted by Ekuna Gogoberishvili, a graduate student of comparative education at Stockholm University, with extensive experience working with youth and teachers.

During the session, she presented her research interests – how critical perspectives are applied in teacher education together – with results and recommendations.

The culmination of the day was the presentation of the Week of Civic Education in Georgian Schools, during which the principals and teachers of participating schools presented their works.

In total, since the beginning of October, more than 50 Georgian schools have participated in the Week of Civic Education and held various events.

Event reports will be available online after the end of the Week and the award ceremony on October 17.

During the training, Conflict Transformation and Peace Building, participants discussed different approaches to conflict resolution based on international practice.

After the event, expert Gvantsa Davitelashvili shared her experience in promoting the youth peace camp of the Council of Europe, developing educational tools and gamification methods for informal activities.

In conclusion, she shared a lot of useful links with the participants of the session.

The program of the “georgian” day of the Week was completed by a presentation and a Digital Resistance master class.

It was followed by a discussion on the importance of media literacy and education in the field of digital citizenship: participants held a brainstorming session on how to teach digital citizenship and bring it to youth groups.

On the same day, several more events of the Week were held, organized by instructors from Azerbaijan, Belarus and Moldova.

The Citizenship Education Week is organized by a consortium of organizations and experts from the East European Network of Citizenship Education (EENCE).

The events of the Week are supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany.

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Civil society in Ukraine remains strong, and the challenges that modern reality throws up only strengthen it. Providers of civic education in Ukraine generously shared best practices and openly discussed the current agenda.

Traditionally, the day began with a panel discussion “Features and challenges of civic education in Ukraine”.

It was attended by Sergey Burov (Director of the House of Human Rights, Chernihiv), Alexandra Kozorog (coordinator of educational projects of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union for Human Rights), Vladimir Selivanenko (Candidate of Law, coordinator of educational programs of Amnesty International in Ukraine).

The discussion was moderated by Nazariy Boyarsky, coordinator of the Week of Civic Education in Ukraine, member of the Board of the public organization “Vector of Human Rights”.

During the event, experts discussed the content of the Concept of the Development of Civic Education in Ukraine, the impact on civil society and civic education programs that the temporary occupation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, the armed conflict in Ukraine and COVID-19 had.

The day continued with the seminar “Using the theater of the oppressed to promote peace-building”.

It was conducted by Yana Salakhova, the joker of the theater of the oppressed, the head of the public organization “Theater of Changes”, co-founder of the festival of participatory theater practices for Eastern European countries “Theater on the Borders”, an independent expert on discrimination, hate speech and hate crimes in Ukraine.

The seminar consisted of two parts – open to everyone about the methodology itself and closed to registered participants who were able to work out personal stories.

A special highlight of the day was the game “What? Where? When?” for everyone.

38 people from Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and Armenia were looking for answers to questions about human rights under the leadership of Alexandra Romantsova, executive director of the public organization “Center for Civil Liberties”.

The correct answers and the questions themselves were commented in detail from the point of view of the concept of human rights.

The evening program was opened by a master class on data visualization tools for civil education providers “Visualize it!”.

It was conducted by Olga Chizhova, Director of Communications at the analytical center “Ukrainian Prism”, co-founder of the international professional association Digital Communication Network.

The participants and participants of the master class learned how to use social networks more effectively to promote civic education programs, how to create pictures, videos, graphics and other illustrations using available free programs.

The program of key events of the day was completed by a conversation between Nazari Boyarsky, a human rights activist, an expert on the prevention and combating of discrimination, a member of the coaching pool of the Youth Department of the Council of Europe, and Olga Vesnyanka, a human rights activist, media expert, consultant of the Council of Europe on countering hate speech in the Eastern Partnership countries.

The informal conversation was devoted to a topic more relevant than ever – “The language of enmity: features of online counteraction”. Nazari and Olga explained how the language of hostility is understood, where it can manifest itself and why it is dangerous, and, most importantly, how to behave in social networks in order to counteract its spread.

On this day, providers of civic education held a number of other important events not only in Ukraine, but also in Belarus and Georgia.

Many of them have been recorded and videos will soon be available online on our website.

The Citizenship Education Week is organized by a consortium of organizations and experts from the East European Network of Citizenship Education (EENCE).

The events of the Week are supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany.

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At the panel discussion, they talked about difficulties, actors, trends in the field of civic education.

The speakers – Elena Bobrovskaya, Mikhail Bortnikov and Elvin Gurbanov – said that the current topic now is participatory design, including in small towns and villages, and the topic of Sustainable Development Goals is gaining momentum.

Of the Sustainable Development Goals, the topic of environmental education is the most understandable.

Among the difficulties, excessive regulation of civic education by the state was noted, as well as potential future difficulties with the law on educational activities.

Experts discussed “difficult” topics, for example, human rights.

The speakers of the discussion presented 3 main pools of coaches of civic education in Russia – the Association of Russian Coaches, the pool of coaches of the Council of Europe and the Association of Coaches of the Russian Youth Union.

Then a series of educational master classes from Russian trainers began.

Vadim Matveev and Alina Kalowska spoke about games in civic education with an emphasis on environmental games. Follow the link to find the online course “Games in Civic Education”.

After that, Kristina Patina introduced the participants to a social design methodology called Customer Development.

The day of Russia ended with a master class “Tools for working with historical memory in the organization of work with young people”, where participants from different countries studied the letters of prisoners of war of Soviet soldiers and their fate, and the coach, Anastasia Mokrushina, shared methodological materials.

Also on this day there was a broadcast of a master class held on Monday of the master class “Workshop of mutual understanding “Demoslam”.

Representatives of Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia, Germany and Poland participated in the events.

The Citizenship Education Week is organized by a consortium of organizations and experts from the East European Network of Citizenship Education (EENCE).

The events of the Week are supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany.

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Citizenship Education Day in the Republic Of Moldova started with a “hot” discussion on the characteristics and challenges of civic education in the Republic Of Moldova.

The event was attended by 31 people from Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus Russia. As moderator was Veronica Garbuz, representative of the NGO “Mostenitorii”, coordinator of the Week in Moldova.

During the constructive discussions, the emphasis was on:

– conceptualization of civic education in the Republic of Moldova;

– the main challenges of civic education in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic;

– the main providers of civic education;

– the main projects implemented in the field of civic education;

– prospects for the development of civic education in the Republic Of Moldova.

The invited experts are of the opinion that we are living in a period in which it is necessary to train citizens involved in social and political life. The aim is not only to ensure that the values of democracy will prosper, but also to encourage social cohesion in the conditions of increasing social and cultural diversity.

At the same time, it was emphasized that although there are several efforts in the field of civic education at the national level, they are not systemic. Moreover, civic education in schools is treated as an optional discipline, teachers do not have the proper training.

At community level there is an acute need to invest in the participation of citizens in community life, public decision-making and in processes that give them a sense of power in relation to decision-makers.

At the end of the panel discussion, it was concluded that in order to achieve important results in the field of civic activism, the SYNERGY EFFECT, obtained through working with community actors, which will bring added value to the efforts made, is needed.

The discussion “Resilience Measures to Save and Create Jobs in the Context of the COVID – 19 Pandemic: Challenges for Civic Education Providers”, was moderated by Liliana Postan, PhD, trainer, member of the Working Group of the CSF VP No. 5 “Social and labor policy and social dialogue”.

The main topics addressed were:

– identification of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market: layoffs, migrations, re-profiling;

– analysis of positive and negative effects;

– comparison of the practice of the Republic of Moldova in the field of employment with the practice of employment in other countries;

– challenges for civic education providers.

The discussion was attended by 32 people from Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

The results of the study on “Mapping civil society organizations in the security and defense sector of the Republic Of Moldova”, presented by Elena Marzac, executive Director of the information and Documentation Center on NATO in the Republic of Moldova, highlighted the role of civil society organizations in the security and defense sector.

Also, the following results were presented:

– research and analysis of the concept of civil society; quantitative and qualitative analysis of active civil society organizations in the national security sector and related ones;

– evaluation of civil society in the national security sector of the Republic Of Moldova in the light of its impact on public policies;

– highlighting the contribution of civil society to the; the identification of the main trends and challenges in the development of civil society in the framework of the security sector;

– the development of conclusions and recommendations on how to strengthen the role of civil society in the field of national security, non-governmental organizations, the media, public institutions, development partners and donors involved in this area.

The seminar “Identification of “difficult participants” and effective use of interaction techniques”, conducted by Vasile Garbuz, expert in psychology and organizational management, aroused the curiosity of the participants.

The seminar was interactive and interesting. The 31 participants from Moldova, Georgia and Belarus mentioned that in their work as a trainer / teacher they often meet with “difficult people”, and the techniques learned will be of great use to them.

The final conclusion of the seminar was : “Difficult people may be present in the working groups, but in order to successfully manage the different difficult situations and react correctly to the different attitudes and behaviors of the tough participants you meet, one thing you have to take into account is never to take something personal”.

At the end of the day, the spirits were ignited by the seminar “Flash mob as a form of civic education”, led by the trainer Eugenia Foca.

The participants discovered the flash mob technique as a method of expressing opinion and civic position. They were surprised that the flash-mob can be deployed both offline and online.

Some examples of online flash mobs during the pandemic period were presented.

EENCE Citizenship Education Week “Art of living online” will be held from 11-17 of October, 2021.

7 days, 7 countries and 111 events, activities both online and offline.

THE GOAL of the Week is to build a loyal attitude towards Citizenship Education providers through demonstrating their potential and popularizing the best Citizenship Education practices in the region.

The Citizenship Education Week is organized by a consortium of organizations and experts from the East European Network of Citizenship Education (EENCE).

The events of the Week are supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany.

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The Republic of Armenia was honored to open of the Week.

Narine Teknejyan, representative of the “Youth is Power” NGO, which coordinates the Week in Armenia, comments on the results of the first day:

– “Armenia has presented discussion, workshop and training courses on different topics. 

Discussion was about “Specifics and challenges of Citizenship Education in Armenia”.

Discussion brought into the center different points.

Governmental sector, particularly Parliament behalf of the advisor of the international relations, Tigran Mughnetsyan and Non-Governmental sector behalf of Diana Mlhamyan, who is a project manager at Restart Foundation for Science and Education.

This allows the discussion to be challenging, diverse and interesting. 

Workshop gathered participants within a topic of “Collaborative Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age”.

Workshop was led by Anna Gevorgyan (EduCare Educational Foundation/ Էդուկարէ).

It was quite interactive and participatory. The workshop has explored the theoretical underpinnings behind collaborative learning and how these have (or have not) changed in the rapid shift to digital education caused by COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

It has provided the principles for effective collaborative teaching and learning towards developing deeper and more meaningful approaches to learning in general and lifelong learning skills, such as problem-solving, critical thinking, team work, and communication. And last but not least it has provided digital instructional tools and strategies for organizing effective collaborative teaching and learning practices.

Workshop involved participants from Armenia, Ukraine and Georgia.  

Training was dedicated to “Local environmental challenges: the Armenian case”.

Participants of the workshop got basic and complex perception about the main reasons why we all need to become more and more eco-friendly citizens right now.

They got a glance on specific problems Armenia has in this field, what are the ongoing environmental projects there, who are “Eco Waste” and how their experience can be exported.

Trainer Vahe Salahyan (Էկո աղբ / Eco Waste Awesome Nature Armenia ) has shared couple of joyful tools how can one assess his/her ecological foot-print on the planet, automatically outlining the steps to take on for reducing the negative impact. The training was summed up with concluding test-format questions.

All activities were interactive, participatory, professional, useful and interesting as participants stated in their feedback.

Participants of mentioned events were from Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Russia and Germany”.

EENCE Citizenship Education Week “Art of living online” will be held from 11-17 of October, 2021.

7 days, 7 countries and 111 events, activities both online and offline.

THE GOAL of the Week is to build a loyal attitude towards Citizenship Education providers through demonstrating their potential and popularizing the best Citizenship Education practices in the region.

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Applications for the events were submitted by both members of the Network, as well as representatives of other NGOs, higher educational institutions, schools, teachers, activists of local communities.

In the near future, a database and an interactive map will appear on the website of the Week, with the help of which it will be possible to get acquainted with what will happen this year within the framework of the Week.

THE PURPOSE of the Week is to form a respectful attitude towards civil education providers through demonstrating the potential and popularizing the best practices of civil education in the region.

Every day of the Week will be dedicated to civic education in one of the countries.

The country responsible for this day will hold a discussion of current events and trends in the field of civic education in this country in the morning and will present 2-3 best practices (training, presentation, etc.). In the afternoon, events on civic education will be held in all countries.

The full program of the Citizenship Education Week “Art of Living online” will appear soon on our website.

The Citizenship Education Week is organized by a consortium of organizations and experts belonging to the Eastern European Network of Civic Education (EENCE) and is administered by the established in the spring of 2021. The Eastern European Association for Civic Education.

The events of the Week are held with the support of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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The program of the Week will begin at 10.00 on October 5 with a seminar on information security and media literacy in the small town of Martuni (Armenia).

Another 18 events will be held on this day in different cities of Armenia, Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.

One of the key events of the first day of the Week will be an online discussion on the situation in Belarus and challenges for civil society, which will start at 18.00 (EET).

The meeting is held online (ZOOM) in Russian with simultaneous translation into English.

Live Stream: www.bpbconnect.eu

To participate in the discussion, follow the link

You can get acquainted with all the events in detail and sign up for participation in some online events on the Program of the Week page on our website.

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Trainings, conferences, discussions and other events are organized not only by members of the East European Civic Education Network, but also by a number of other organizations working in the field of civic and non-formal education.

You can get acquainted with the schedule of events in the form of a calendar or a list on our website.

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