The project is implemented in partnership with the Centre for Educational Innovation and Social Programs in Transnistria Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society (SPAS) and the Integration and Development Centre from Ukraine.
Period of the implementation of the project is May 5, 2014 – 28 th February 2015.
Total budget of U.S. $ 48 000, with the financial assistance of the European Union and UNDP Programme “Support to Confidence Building Measures” and 5175 Euro from SPAS
The main goal of this project is to enhance intercultural dialogue and to promote the notion of cultural diversity on the local and regional levels, trough the effective cooperation between government institutions and active involvement of civil society actors on both sides of Nistru River. The specific objectives include:
- To develop, probate and introduce innovative methods of incorporating cultural content of core art sectors and traditional cultural heritage of different ethnic identities into children’s school activities
- To involve NGOs in local and societal development, cooperation with educational institutions and experience sharing between civil society, educators and government representatives.
- To provide the Moldovan educational system, including its Transnistrian region with knowledge, skills (trainings) and instruments (workbooks, manuals) for professional educational activities to improve intercultural tolerance on the preschool and elementary school level.
The innovation data of this specific initiative focuses on curriculum development of optional course “The Culture of good neighbourhood” for kindergarten and first grade, accompanied by teaching materials, adapted from teaching kit designed and experienced by Ukrainian partners.
Key activities of the project include: workshops with the authors of teaching materials; assessment of developed materials; selecting educational institutions for experimentation of new course; the materials expertise by the Ministry of Education; the presentation of materials for managers from pilot kindergartens and schools; editing, layout and editing of the experimental materials; training for teachers and educators; the monitoring of pedagogical experiment and the assessment of teaching materials; the dissemination of piloted optional course and proposal for including it in the list of optional subjects, recommended by the Ministry of Education in order to disseminate it for all classes in compulsory education, including multi-ethnic areas.
The cooperation between educational institutions on both banks of Nistru river with experts from Sweden and Ukraine will contribute to building a constructive social dialogue and better understanding between representatives of different ethnic groups in order to increase confidence and promote tolerance in the region. We intend to create some successful practices that can later be easily extrapolated within all educational space of Moldova.
