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and Knowing - Means Existing |
Group of 40 students will be in Sarajevo, hotel “Saray”, from May
16 to May 20, 2006, in organization of the Association of Election
Officials in Bosnia and Herzegovina (AEOBiH) within the project
“Learning and knowing – means existing”, which is implemented in
cooperation with 10 secondary schools throughout BiH thanks to the
funds of the Office of Public Affairs at the Embassy of USA in BiH
(OPA).
20 male students and 20 female students of the
third classes from ten secondary schools, five from RS (Ribnik,
Šipovo, Rudo, Kasindo and Kneževo) and five from FBIH (Vareš, Maglaj,
Breza, Bugojno and Ljubuški) will in that period listen to interesting
lectures on the following topics: Political system of BiH, Elections
in BiH, Human Rights and Freedoms, Democratization of relationships
in school/Strengthening of capacities of students' councils in schools,
Getting closer to European Union, Mid-term Development Strategy
– fight against poverty and millennium aims, Gender equality, importance
of the Law on freedom to access of information.
Besides that, visits to all levels of the government
are organized (municipality Stari grad Sarajevo, Canton Sarajevo,
Parliament of the Federation and Parliament of BiH), in order to
better understand levels of authorities in BiH and its functioning.
Tourist sightseeing tour will be also organized during their stay
in Sarajevo.
The purpose of the project is that young persons
who turn to be 18 and acquire voting right become aware of the fact
that they are the ones on whom dynamics and type of changes happening
in BiH depends on.
Afterwards, when they go back to their original
municipalities, they will be obliged to pass their acquired knowledge
to their colleagues and to promote importance of going out to vote
at the elections among young people.
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