Capacity Building of Young Activists of Ejmiatsin sub-regions of the Armavir region on engagement in Local Self-Governance
22 December 2019
“Free Citizen” Civic Initiatives Support Center is continuing the implementation of the project “Young Activist” Young Civic Activists Capacity Building in Social Campaigning. On 22 December 2019, “Free Citizen” CISC organized a workshop for the local youth in the framework of the Project in the city of Ejmiatsin, Armavir marz of Armenia. This is the ninth of the 17 workshops, which are planned to organize in Armenia in the framework of the Project “V4 for Youth Engagement in the Local Self-Governance”. The workshops are dedicated to strengthening young civic activists on engagement with local self-governance as well as raising awareness among participants on the European Union, Council of Europe, Eastern Partnership, and Visegrad 4 format.
32 young activists from the Ejmiatsin sub-regions of the Armavir region participated in the workshop. During the event, it was also discussed the issues, which have been identified by the participants as more relevant for the Youth of their region.
The Ejmiatsin LSG body representatives – Vice Mayor Arsen Petrosyan and Advasor of the Mayor Satenik Tovmasyan met with youngsters and share their experiences in Local Self-Government, as well as answered the questions.
The Agenda of the workshop is here.
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The partners of the Project are GLOBSEC (Slovakia), SALTO Youth Eastern Europe and Caucasus Resource (Poland), AGORA CE (Czech Republic), Budapest Institute for Policy Analysis (Hungary), Union of Communities of Armenia (Armenia).
