On 21 September 2020, an interactive online training platform about elections ‘CEC: prosvita’, being a joint educational project of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine and the Council of Europe, was launched. For over six months, more than 30 experts and specialists have been working on its development and production, particularly, a team of elections and democracy experts of the Council of Europe, creative teams from a laboratory ‘Platform’ and studio for online education ‘EdEra’, ‘UA: Ukrainian Radio’, as well as a marketing agency ‘BigBangers’.
The main idea of this project is to show that every voice and every choice is important, that everyone’s voice determines the future of both a particular community and the country as a whole. The purpose of this project is to help Ukrainians make well-informed and conscious choices during elections.
The educational online platform ‘CEC: prosvita’ was created for Ukrainian citizens – voters, including first time voters, members of election commissions, observers, candidates and parties, as well as other participants of the election process. This project is designed to:
- explain why elections at both local and national levels are important for the democratic development of the state;
- show how elections are arranged and organized;
- encourage citizens to participate in elections and make well-informed and conscious choices.
Ukrainians will be able to take both individual training courses, as well as become familiar with other informational and educational materials on electoral issues to be placed on the educational platform ‘CEC: prosvita’.
Along with the launch of the online platform, the first training course ‘Elections in simple terms’ is launched as well and is designed to inform about the history of elections, explain the basic principles and election standards, different types of electoral systems and procedures both in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world.
The peculiarity of the course is learning through chatting. Everyone will be able to get to know some interesting facts about elections and electoral procedures by simply chatting with Plato, Socrates and Lincoln, as well as many other famous historical and contemporary figures.
The training course starts on 21 September 2020 on the educational platform ‘CEC: prosvita’.
“Supporting the transparency, inclusiveness and integrity of electoral practice in Ukraine” is the Council of Europe project in Ukraine that is aimed at enhancing the political and legal culture of voters, the ability of public authorities to organize and conduct elections in line with European electoral standards and good practices, as well as strengthening the capacity of women, young voters, national minorities to actively participate in political and public decision-making processes.
