On March 29, 2017 Mr. Jan Truszczynski, ex-Director General for Education and Culture, European Commission (currently- expert of the EU-funded “Association4U” project) held a workshop “Education and Culture in the EU” for senior officials from the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. The meeting was moderated by the senior training fellow Ms.Svitlana Batsyukova.

The level of consciousness of Ukrainians has greatly increased during the last few years. Citizens are willing to take responsibility for the words and actions and to participate in policy that could certainly be useful for Ministries. The efficiency of public consultations depends not only on public understanding and support of public policy, but often on the quality of decisions on important issues of public life. Due to this important role of consultations Associate Communication Fellow of the project Association4U Lidia Yershykhina has conducted the training for the Line Ministries to explain mechanisms of improving the consultation process within the law. 

Every team of all the Ministries requires such a basic but important document as brief. In order good writing and effective communication we need to follow certain rules - that were said by Greek short-term expert Yiannis Kaminis.

Before writing the brief, you should remember and take into account points of view and positions of our Leaders. Once you have written the brief - send it to Directors for approval. If changes need to be made, get it revised until it is approved! When you have reached agreement you are free to go ahead with creative development.

On March 10, the first training session for Civil Servants entitled “ABC of the European Union” was held, aiming at improving and strengthening the competencies of civil servants needed for the effective implementation of duties associated with implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.

The training was conducted by Lyudmyla Chernyaha, Senior Training Fellow of ‘Association 4U’ project. 23 Civil Servants from the Ministry of Social Policy, State Service on Labour, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education and Science were active participants in the session.

To answer these questions of the implementation of the Association Agreement in the light of the BREXIT and navigate through challenges, the EU funded Project “Support for the implementation of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement - Association4U” co-organized the International Workshop “Challenges before and after the ratification of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement: Impact of the Dutch Referendum, the BREXIT and future elections in the EU Member States” together with Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence (based at the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA).

In addition to training on international best practices of building communications Association4U project becomes a platform where representatives of the press services of line ministries can exchange experiences on the use of communications tools in Ukraine. The first of their experience building relationships with stakeholders shared with colleagues the spokesperson of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) Olga Grigoryan.

Monitoring is an indispensable tool of government agencies’ Press Services or Communications Departments. It can be used not only to evaluate estimate their performance, but also to develop and adjust communication action plans to increasing its communications efficiency.

In addition, monitoring helps to illustrate the importance of your work to your front office and see the whole media picture of the day.

Despite its apparent simplicity, the organization of monitoring process demands a great amount of time, human and technical resources. Of course, officials can use outsourcing monitoring services to save time. The second reason for outsourcing is not to maintain additional technical capacity for monitoring of TV, radio, printed press etc. However, the organization of monitoring by your own also has advantages.

Усі підприємці, які працюють в Україні, є потенційними користувачами переваг, які надає Угода про асоціацію та зону вільної торгівлі з Європейським Союзом. Українські виробники отримали пільговий доступ на величезний європейський ринок – більше 500 мільйонів потенційних покупців!

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