From March 19, 2018, the CEC and the Training Center will launch the awareness raising and training course “Elections and Young Voters” for 11^th and 12^th grade public school students. The program will be implemented at 108 public schools located in five self-governing cities (Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Poti, Batumi, Rustavi).

The project is aimed at raising electoral awareness and promoting enhanced civic responsibility of youth. As part of the practical training format used in the training program public school students will gain knowledge around such important topics as: background of elections and contemporary times, elections and democracy, election administration and voters, other electoral stakeholders. At the end of the course the students will conduct mock elections as part of which a winning slogan from among the slogans developed by students around promoting environmental matters will be identified.

DEC members retrained by the Training Center will implement the Training Project. They have undergone relevant training instruction during March 1-5, as part of the workshops held in regions.

The CEC and the Training Center have been implementing the mentioned project in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Georgia since 2015.

Follow the link (available in Georgian) to see the concept for the awareness-raising and training course Elections and Young Voters developed by the Training Center.

The training course will be implemented in stages during March 19 to April 25 (1^st Stage: 19-23.03.18; 2^nd stage: 26-30.03.18; 3^rd stage: 11-17.04.18; 4^th stage: 19-25.04.18). Training schedules will be published on the Training Center website. See 1^st stage schedule (available in Georgian).