On November 27, 2017 at the National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service the training workshops of Second Module of Programme “Development of Citizenship Competences of Civil Servants” within the framework of the Swiss-Ukrainian Project “Development of citizenship competences in Ukraine – DOCCU” for representatives of higher education institutions, who are responsible for training of masters under the specialty on Master’s Programme for the “Public Management and Administration” were started.

The issues to be reviewed by participants:

• education for democratic citizenship and human rights education; training methods on education of democratic citizenship and human rights education for masters under the specialty on Master’s Programme for the “Public Management and Administration”;
• professional competences of trainers for teaching topics/courses on education for democratic citizenship and human rights education;
• presentation a portfolio teacher trainer on education of democratic citizenship and human rights education;
• improving the education programmes on formation and development of citizenship competences for masters under the specialty on Master’s Programme for the “Public Management and Administration”.

 During the 3-day training, developed education modules on education for democratic citizenship and human rights education for development of the citizenship competences in civil servants and working plans of content updating of master’s programmes of higher education institutions for implementation of education for democratic citizenship and human rights education in the educational programmes for masters on specialty “Public Management and Administration” will be presented. 

For reference:

The Swiss–Ukrainian Project of International Technical Assistance “Development of Citizenship Competences in Ukraine” (DOCCU) is implemented in Ukraine within the framework of the Swiss Cooperation Strategy for Ukraine for 2015–2018, in particular within the direction “Local Self-Government and Public Services”. The Swiss Confederation is the donor of the Project, and the Zurich University of Teacher Education (Switzerland) is the main performer of the Project. The National Agency of Ukraine on Civil Service is the beneficiary of the Project. 

The main goal of the Project is to support the sustainable development of civil society by sharing knowledge on education for democratic citizenship and human rights education in Ukraine.