The Art of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (Mediation)

ongoing

The aim of the project is to provide students and young people who are not studying with access to a new level of international and cross-cultural and inclusive education through the implementation of virtual exchanges on the art of negotiation and mediation in EU countries, Georgia and Ukraine to enhance democracy, cultural diversity and objective problem resolution by acquiring best European practices. Specific Project Objectives are the following: 1. To conduct trainings for youth workers and University representatives on critical thinking, negotiation and mediation skills development. 2. To develop and implement online-course “The Art of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution (Mediation)”. 3. To conduct a set of virtual activities for students and youth. 4. To establish sustainable cross-cultural communication network in EU countries, Georgia and Ukraine, 5. To reduce level of conflicts in Ukrainian and Georgian societies through sharing mediation values. In order to achieve these objectives, it is planned to conduct next activities: ⁃ to develop training programs both for students and youth, and for Universities’ staff and youth workers; ⁃ to conduct virtual trainings, workshops, mediation simulations, negotiation fights, final dissemination conference; ⁃ to organize virtual visits to partner universities for exchange of experience, etc.; ⁃ to organize dissemination of project values and results. Project beneficiaries: university’s students, non-studying youth, university staff, youth workers (up to 2000 persons in general). Expected results: ⁃2 blocks of trainings for university’s staff and youth workers are developed and conducted; ⁃ 3 cohorts of students and youth are enrolled to the online-course; ⁃ visits to partner universities are conducted; ⁃ communication network for students and youth is formed; ⁃ dissemination campaign is organized. Outputs: trainings (2 trainings), virtual exchanges (3 rounds), online conference (1), online course (1).