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    The Working Group 4 meeting of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum took place on 27-28 March 2019 in Brussels. Representatives from almost 30 civil society organizations from the 6 EaP countries and several EU member states assessed the current situation in the EaP region regarding education, culture, youth, and mobility from a civil society perspective. The representatives developed recommendations for EU stakeholders on these topics. The document provides an overview of the recommendations and brief updates from civil society in each of the EaP countries.

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    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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