Our Community: Debate and Negotiate
Project name։ “Our Community: Debate and Negotiate for Interests and Compromises” within the project “More Community” and “Shaping Neighbourhood: Debate and Negotiate for Democracy, Participation and Plurality”.
Donor։ German CIVIC Institute of International Education, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (IFA-Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen), (sponsored/financed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany).
Project description (200-300 words)։
The project was implemented within the framework of a series of seminars, workshops and simulation games organized by the German CIVIC Institute of International Education in Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova. From 2015 to 2017 a set of simulation games and seminars/workshops were organized in different universities of Armenia, using several interactive models and methods from the European civic education field.
The aim of the project was to improve the negotiation skills of the participants, to introduce them decision-making mechanisms, to promote the development of their ability to find and use an independent solution to the problem, by modelling various situations, providing summary information on decision-making processes of European various institutions as well as on European socio-political relations. The seminars were based on the core of European values, the importance of fundamental human rights, democratic decision-making processes, independent justice, pluralism, and the encouragement of active participation in social processes.
Both students and young researchers and trainers who were interested in European integration processes had the opportunity to participate in the courses. Participants discussed a variety of issues related to democracy, freedom, civic education, and civil society, thus improving their communication skills, identifying and mapping community concerns, while developing measures and projects to improve community life.
Members։ Hayk Kocharyan (Project manager), Anna Gevorgyan (Project manager associate), Shoushan Kyureghyan (Project manager assistant).
Duration։ December 2015- December 2017
Outcomes։ During the implementation of the project, 9 courses were organized in Yerevan and other regions, six of which were for students of humanities and 3 for trainers. 20-25 people participated in each course.