Local Democracy: European Best Practices for Ukraine

Title: 101047645 – EULOCDEM – ERASMUS-JMO-2021-HEI-TCH-RSCH "LOCAL DEMOCRACY: EUROPEAN BEST PRACTICES FOR UKRAINE"

Type of project: Jean Monnet Academic Modules

Responsible department for implementing the project at SumDU:

Department of Fundamental Jurisprudence and Constitutional Law

Period of realization:1 March 2022 – 28 February 2025

Short description of the project:

Ukraine's desire to achieve democratic European standards and obligations under the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union necessitates the introduction of new practices of cooperation between public authorities, local governments and local residents. Such new practices should be the instruments of local democracy, which have proven themselves in the countries of the European Union. Therefore, the project is designed to promote the development of mechanisms and tools of local democracy in Ukraine on the basis of European experience.

However, the use of instruments of local democracy to address local issues in Ukraine remains insufficient due to the following factors: lack of proper legal regulation of these instruments, lack of public awareness of existing instruments, traditional low activity of citizens. An additional problem is the lack of professional staff at the level of local self-government bodies, which should promote the introduction of local democracy instruments. The project should help solve the above problems.

The implementation of this mission will have positive and lasting consequences for the citizens, local deputies and local government officials involved, will promote the knowledge of existing instruments of local democracy and the acquisition of practical skills for their implementation. The project team focuses its activities on training of pro-European-oriented specialists and promotion of European best practies of local democracy/ Tangible results of the project: development of a new discipline and an online course of this discipline; publication of a handbook, promotions, an annual panel discussion for the academic, professional community and the publication of “Best Practices of Decentralization: EU Experience for Ukraine”; debates for pupils and students which dedicated to European Week local democracy.

The principal outputs are:

development of a new discipline and an online course of this discipline;
publication of a handbook, promotions, an annual round table for the academic, professional community and the publication of ―Best Practices of Decentralization: EU Experience for Ukraine;
debates for pupils and students which dedicated to European Week local democracy.

Regulatory documents:

Rector's order on the creation of the project's workgroup

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Contact information:

Thematic Coordinator of the project:

Viktoriia O. Pankratova

Senior Lecturer, Department of Fundamental Jurisprudence and Constitutional Law

Tel.: +38(0542)66-50-78

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Organization and Administration Coordinator of the project:

Kostyantyn I. Kyrychenko

Head of the International Affairs Department

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