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: February 20 - June 27, 2018
Attendance statistics: 338 students took the academic course and participated in the training, including 201 - female; 137 - male.
