From 7 to 11 July 2026, a Training course on human rights education:  Using the Compass manual in formal and non-formal education was held in Lviv.

During the course, 25 youth workers and teachers from different regions of Ukraine learned how to implement education for democratic citizenship and human rights education in formal, non-formal and informal educational settings through the dissemination of educational approaches set out in the Council of Europe's Compass manual.

The Compass Manual  was first published in 2002. For more than 20 years, the Compass Manual has become a reference guide for many young people involved in value-based youth work and non-formal education, including in Ukraine. Today, the Compass Manual is available in more than 30 languages, ranging from Arabic and Japanese to Icelandic and Basque. 

The Compass manual  contains both theoretical sections on human rights education, approaches of the manual to human rights education, understanding of human rights, and practical 60 exercises and methods that can be used in human rights education.

The updated edition of the manual on human rights education with the participation of young people "Compass" was edited and published in Ukrainian within the framework of the Council of Europe Project "Youth for Democracy in Ukraine: Phase III".

The training course was held within the framework of the programme "Democratic School: Education for Democratic Resilience", implemented by the European Wergeland Centre (Norway) and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in partnership with the Centre for Educational Initiatives, the All-Ukrainian Foundation "Step by Step", the Charitable Foundation savED and the educational programme "Step by Step" (Moldova) with the financial support of Norway.

Expert support was provided by the Council of Europe project "Youth for Democracy in Ukraine", which is being implemented within the framework of the Council of Europe Action Plan for Ukraine "Resilience, Recovery and Reconstruction" for 2023-2026