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Project: Education for Democratic Citizenship

This project aims to develop a training program on democratic citizenship for Ukrainian stakeholders within the political and public sector as well as in higher education institutions and the civil society. The program will be implemented online and onsite.

Project information

Project manager
Daniel Silander
Other project members
Jan Aidemark, Hanna Ryzhenko, Linnaeus University
Participating organizations
The organisations in the partnership of the project “Education for Democratic Citizenship” are: Linnaeus University (Sweden), Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Ukraine), Institute for Social and Political Psychology at the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (Ukraine), NGO Association of Political Psychologists of Ukraine, Jagiellonian University (Poland) and NGO School of Governance (Ukraine).
Financier
Swedish Institute
Timetable
1 jan 2025-31/12 2026
Subject
Political Science (Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences)
Forskargrupp
Swedish Network for European Studies (SNES)
Webbsite
https://lnu.se/forskning/forskargrupper/global-europe/

More about the project

The formal project partnership reflects a collaborative effort to address the challenge of fostering democratic citizenship in Ukraine by drawing on diverse expertise and resources. By bringing together academic institutions, research organisations, and NGOs, the project aims to create a comprehensive and sustainable framework for promoting democratic values and civic engagement across the country.

The project is part of the research in the research group Swedish Network for European Studies (SNES)