📢 We invite you to join the first online session within the international project “Co-creating and Implementing Trauma-Informed Tools for Civic Education in Eastern Partnership Countries.”

📅 23 June 2026

🕛 12:00–13:00 CET (Germany), 13:00–14:00 in Ukraine and Moldova, 14:00–15:00 in Belarus, 15:00–16:00 in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

💻 Online via Zoom

We are launching a series of open sessions in the format of an “Educational Clinic”, where we will explore real-life civic education practices through the lens of a trauma-informed approach.

🎤 Speaker: Svitlana Bulbeniuk — PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Department of Political Technologies, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman (KNEU).

During the first session, we will examine the case of the project “Resilience in Uncertain Times: Innovations for Development”, implemented by the Innovation University with the support of the Department of Public Communications of the Kyiv City State Administration. The project aimed to establish resilience hubs led by young people in Kyiv.

🔍 Important: This session is not a training on media literacy, media immunity, or resilience. The Educational Clinic format focuses on exploring the project itself as a practical case study. We are interested not only in what participants learned, but also in how the educational process was designed and facilitated, what challenges emerged during implementation, which solutions proved effective, and what lessons other civic education providers can draw from this experience.

Together, we will explore:

🔹 How a safe and supportive learning environment was created;

🔹 Which participant needs were taken into account during project implementation;

🔹 Which practices can be considered trauma-informed;

🔹 What challenges emerged and how the project team responded to them;

🔹 What conclusions and recommendations may be useful for other educators, trainers, facilitators, and civil society organisations.

The session will be of interest to educators, trainers, facilitators, representatives of civil society organisations, youth workers, and everyone working in the fields of civic education, human rights, war-related challenges, forced migration, and social inclusion.

🌍 Working languages: English and Russian. Where possible, additional interpretation into Eastern Partnership languages will be provided.

📩 Registration: https://forms.gle/5DY56JWVXzETkipX6 

The project “Co-creating and Implementing Trauma-Informed Tools for Civic Education in Eastern Partnership Countries” is implemented by the NGO Democratic Initiatives Incubator (Ukraine). The project is funded by the Federal Agency for Civic Education (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung / bpb, Germany) in cooperation with the Eastern European Network for Citizenship Education (EENCE).