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The "Ukrainian Books for Education in Tolerance" Project is financed by MATRA Programme of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Anne Frank House, and the Fund for Central & East European Book Projects, Amsterdam Project duration: October 2008 - September 2011 Overall objective(s) To improve the situation of discriminated minorities, to counter discrimination, xenophobia, and antisemitism, and to further tolerance and respect for diversity Project goal Promoting tolerance in educational system and in wider public opinion Key problem(s) - Discrimination of minorities, antisemitism, and xenophobia
- Lack of knowledge of teachers about these topics
- Lack of general books and textbooks for secondary and tertiary education on these topics
- Bias in the media
Activities - 16 titles of educational pilot editions and resources on tolerance, combating antisemitism and xenophobia developed by project partners are reprinted
- the translation and publication of 11 educational resources and books during 2009 – 2011
To achieve the objectives of the Project, seminars will be held in all oblasts’ centers of Ukraine for four target groups: - History teachers of secondary schools
- secondary school supervisors and administrators from local oblast departments of education (policy makers)
- lecturers and students in Civic Education and History at Pedagogical Universities, and supervisors
- librarians
- school librarians
- journalists
The seminars consist of two parts: lectures and trainings Ukrainian partner organizations provide experienced trainers. We provided seminars in: - Sumy oblast
- Zakarpatska oblast
- Kherson oblast
- Lviv oblast
- Poltava oblast
- Kyiv oblast
- Kharkiv oblast
- Dnipropetrovsk oblast
- Chernigiv oblast
- Cherkasy oblast
- Odesa oblast
- Ivano-Frankivsk oblast
- Volyn oblast
- Rivne oblast
- Zhytomyr oblast
- Chernivtsi oblast
- Khmelnytskiy oblast
- Vinnytsia oblast
- Yalta
General coordinator of the Project: Andriy Tarnovskyy, Director of the Center for Civic Education, 6 Osvity Str, room 48, Kyiv, 03037, Ukraine. www.n-age.org.ua (Tel.: +38 050 357 89 37,
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) Educational coordinator of the Project: Oleksandr Voitenko, e-mail:
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