The presentation of
European school clubs was held in Lutsk
The
presentation of European School Clubs (ESC) was held in Lutsk. 10 of
such ESC must arise in Volyn region. 4 of them are already acting in
regional center –
in secondary schools ¹¹ 4,
14, 21, 26.
Creation of such clubs is being actively prepared in Volodymyr-Volynskiy,
Kivertsi,
Gorohiv and Kovel towns.
Organisation of ESC is being made in the frame of program “Build the
Europe together!”,
and is realized by Volyn Public Youth Organizations Centre
„NASHA
SPRAVA”
and the Foundation “Nowy Staw” in Lublin, Poland in support of
Polish-American Fond of Freedom and Fond of S.Batory. The next
trend of this program is setting up in Lutsk the first in Ukraine
European Information Center.
The main object of
European school clubs is to make
contacts between Ukrainian youth and the youth of
West Europe. For young people it is a chance to get urgent
information about EU, it is a good possibility to develop oneself,
realize oneself, to gain knowledge, that would be useful in future
and influence upon the well-being of oneself, of community and of
the country.
Beside young students, teachers, coordinators of
European school clubs representatives of Local Educational
Authorities, the Major of Lutsk Anton Kryvytskiy, the vice-consul of
Polish Consulate-general in Lutsk Andjey Paradovski took part in the
presentation. They not only approved the initiative but declared
their patronage on the project.
During the presentation, the initiator and coordinator of the
project “European school clubs”, the chairman of Volyn Public Youth
Organizations Centre
„NASHA
SPRAVA”
Vladyslav Stemkovski said, “The main idea of the project is not only
to create ESC, but to form, in the full sense, the Ukrainian model
of setting up similar structures, that could be further used as
methods in the whole Ukraine.” He also announced about the beginning
of “European Olympics”. The Olympics consists of two parts: a test
“What do we know about EU and European countries” and competition of
pieces of arts on the European themes.
Andjey Paradovski also promised to represent the best works in
Brussel – the capital of EU.