Title: academic course in Election Law for university students

Goal: enhancing necessary professional knowledge of university students in election law, developing their practical skills and civic awareness

Target group: students of law faculties/law schools and social sciences, as well as students of business and law, sciences and arts, from partner teaching universities.

Teaching modules: the concept of elections, types and periodicity of elections; electoral systems, Georgia’s election law sources and principles; electoral process and the instittuion in charge of the electoral process management; powers and rule of operation of the Election Administration of Georgia; electoral stakeholders; voter registration; preelection campaign (agitation); legal support to holding preelection campaign; funding elections; voting time and place; opening a polling station, procedures prior to polling; the voting process; closing a polling station; summarizing polling results; summarizing/determining polling and electino results; electoral disputes; the president of Georgia elections. The Parliament of Georgia elections; local self-government and representative body-city assembly elections; self-governing city mayour (self-governing community executive officer) elections; referendum, plebiscite.

Impelementation period: September 18-January 30, 2017

Statistics: 288 students took the academic course and participated in the training, including 185 female; 103 male.