Mobility: Education

EaP CSF WG4 Report
Brussels, 27-28 March 2019
Projects
Digital Mobility Culture
EaP
EU EducationGender
Migration Youth Future
People Cooperation
Tolerance
Summary
The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum's Working Group 4
"People to People" contacts took place on 27-28 March, 2019 in
Brussels. With representatives from almost 30 CSOs from all 6 EaP
countries and several EU member states, participants assessed from
the perspective of the civil society the current state of play in the
EaP region in the areas of Education, Culture, Youth and Mobility. In
respective sub-groups civil society representatives from EaP and EU
developed a series of recommendations for the EU stakeholders to
take into account.
This summary provides you with an overview of the results of the

Working Group 4 meeting.
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Recommendations on Youth Policy
Ensure continued and enhanced involvement of the EaP youth into the
European youth programs (Erasmus+, Solidarity Corps etc.), providing
involvement of the grassroot civil society initiatives in the current and
upcoming program period.
Stimulate the development of Innovation and digitals skills in line with the
education and employability.
The legislative status of strategies differs from case to case and from country to
country. More support on development of youth strategies and legislation
containing youth policies at the high priority by National Governments is needed
Strengthen the support of youth and female entrepreneurship, especially in

rural areas by providing tax incentives for youth, female and social
entrepreneurship.
Recommendations on Cultural Policy

Build and enable sustainable infrastructures promoting intercultural dialogue
and the culture of peace, tolerance, multiculturalism and pluralism of the
cultural diversity.
Create networks of cultural actor in the EaP and EU countries to enable

sustainable exchange of best practices among different key players in this
sphere.
Strengthen the role of cultural workers as mediators of change.
Set the priorities for collective history/memory and shared heritage between
EaP and EU countries, tackling xenophobia and hate speech, diversity and
inclusiveness.
Focus on smaller sized grants to reach out for the youth and cultural groups
working on the ground, who have neither capacity nor necessity for bigger
grants.
Concentrate more on regional exchange of cultural practice in order to
consolidate and embed various communities across Europe.
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Recommendations on Educational Policy
Develop mechanisms and tools for decentralization of the system of
advanced training (in secondary education).
Create networks to enhance cooperation between EaP schools and encourage

experience exchange e.g. via students visits.
Create mobile educational centers in rural regions, to grow and develop
professional skills of pedagogical staff
Revise teaching methods e.g. use more simulation games, building scenarios,
increase involvement of digital tools.
Involve more civil society actors working on educational topics into dialogue
with stakeholders and decision makers.
Introduce a system of benefits for professional development of educational
staff e.g. via voucher system. Moreover, the prestige of teacher as profession,
should be increased. This can be achieved via supporting educational start-
ups, reforming pedagogical universities, promoting education as one of the
priorities of governmental agenda
Recommendations on Migration, Mobility and IBM +

Gender
Conduct the study/research regarding the needs of IDPs, Refugees and Asylym
seekers. This study would analyse and compare the situations in EU member
states and EaP countries and enables to assess the criteria for facilitating
purposeful assistance for the affected target group of people. Special attention of
the analysis should go to the analysis of existing laws and policies and
elaboration on legal instruments to tackle the issue of migration.
It’s mandatory to create the indicators of renewing the conflict in order to

prevent the new flow of IDPs
Increase the priority of supporting women and girls affected by the conflict –
supporting the creation of the Resolution 1325 action plan for the countries
where it is not yet available and in the countries where it is currently
available, supporting the localization of the above mentioned action plan.
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Civil Society reports
in 2018, Armenia has become the fourth of the EU's Eastern Partner countries,
after Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, to join the Creative Europe program
EU-Armenia Dialogue on Education has started. A new Law on Higher Education

is being drafted by the Ministry of Education and will be hopefully passed by the
end of the year. It is expected it will reflect more the reforms of Bologna system
and Torino process. Civil Society is involved in the EU-Armenia Dialogue with
their recommendations on Higher Educations.
After the revolution, the government has started an optimization process, so the
future of youth policy in the country is uncertain as there will no longer be a
Ministry for Youth and Sports. The ministry of Culture has been merged with
ministry of Education and Science.
Civil society in Armenia is concerned that with the merge of the ministries and
uncertain youth policy will result in a gap on youth strategy and programs at
national and local level.
Frozen international funding cooperation are slowly being re-established
Outdated educational system and marginalisation of cultural sphere remain one

of the key challenges, according to civil society. The country is lacking modern
technologies and teaching methods as well as qualified educational staff.
Educational system is strongly dependent on Ministry of Education and executive

power in general. Civil Society urges the authorities to provide educational
institutions with more freedom and independence.
Belarus will hopefully be signing a visa readmission agreement soon.
Civil society has still limited access to decision making in youth related matters.
State authorities rely on monopoly of Belarusian State Youth Union (БРСМ)
leaving other youth CSOs with limited opportunities for engagement and barely
any financial support.
Culture appears to be a state-dominated field with poor involvement of civil

society.
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New pension reform introduced for legally employed under 40 years old
Establishment of the EaP’s European School in Tbilisi. In the current

academic year, 30 young people from EaP countries, came to study at this
school
In the context of the public consultation of the Regulation on the validation

of non-formal and informal education, government makes an effort to
develop a validation system for learning outcomes in non-formal and
informal contexts and intervened with a common position.
Following the administrative reform the Ministry of Youth and Sports of the
Republic of Moldova was merged and its attributions were taken over by
the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research (MECR), there is currently
no governmental entity, with the role of youth policy maker.
Ukraine celebrated the first anniversary of the visa-free regime with the EU
and Schengen countries.
As of September 2018, Ukraine leads in the number of capacity-building

applications and funded projects at post-secondary educational institutions.
The Ukrainian Government has no general programs or strategies for youth

employment, the only initiative from the Ministry of Youth and Sport being
Pact for Youth in Ukraine 2020.
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EaP CSF WG4 Report

Brussels, 27-28 March 2019

This summary provides you with an overview of the results of the

Strengthen the support of youth and female entrepreneurship, especially in

Recommendations on Cultural Policy

Create networks of cultural actor in the EaP and EU countries to enable

Strengthen the role of cultural workers as mediators of change.

Create networks to enhance cooperation between EaP schools and encourage

Recommendations on Migration, Mobility and IBM +

It’s mandatory to create the indicators of renewing the conflict in order to

EU-Armenia Dialogue on Education has started. A new Law on Higher Education

Frozen international funding cooperation are slowly being re-established

Outdated educational system and marginalisation of cultural sphere remain one

Educational system is strongly dependent on Ministry of Education and executive

Belarus will hopefully be signing a visa readmission agreement soon.

Culture appears to be a state-dominated field with poor involvement of civil

Establishment of the EaP’s European School in Tbilisi. In the current

In the context of the public consultation of the Regulation on the validation

As of September 2018, Ukraine leads in the number of capacity-building

The Ukrainian Government has no general programs or strategies for youth

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