The School of Change Leaders was launched on November 27 and completed successfully. This project received the Sumy City Council’s support as the winner of the project competition among the civil society institutions in December last year.
“School of Change Leaders of ” is a unique project aimed at building civil society, forming a stable civic position in modern conditions, gaining practical project design skills and costs processing of participatory community budgets.
The project manager is Larysa Valenkevych, PhD., the project manager of the NGO “Center for Lifelong Learning”, associate professor of Oleg Balatsky department of management. She took care of that project for many years, and now it was scaled-up and went online. The trainers and consultants were well-known project management experts, winners of project competitions, specialists in the field of public administration, experienced facilitators, and international keynote speakers.
The intensive training program lasted on November 27 and 28 online, in which high school students of Sumy UTC took part. During the training, participants gained knowledge of project management, drafting project applications to achieve the grants, and designing their projects.
From November 29 to December 6, additional consultations of the program’s trainers continued for participants who are already developing their own projects to transform the city into one they are dreaming about.
On December 10, the participants presented their projects to the jury. Non-stop pitching lasted more than four hours, and 17 projects were presented.
All the winners were awarded the prizes. Which projects won you may see at https://bit.ly/3mqBQwR
Sumy City Council, financially supported the project
as well as sponsorship was provided by:
- “Manufactura” Shopping and Entertainment Center,
- “Most” Shopping Center,
- “Compservice” store,
- “Foodie” restaurant
- Sumy Regional Blood Service Center,
We are grateful for the support of the project to the members of the jury: Volodymyr Lobodin, director of the “Manufactura” shopping mall, Andriy Mosha, head of the communications and information support department of Sumy City Council; Oksana Kubrak, Head of the Project Office Department of the Sumy City Council, Alona Yevdokymova, Project Manager of the NGO Center for Lifelong Learning and Head of the Training Department of Practice and Integration Relations with Customers of SSU Staff; Hanna Shvindina, CEO of the NGO “Center for Lifelong Learning” and head of the Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management, Mykyta Kovalevskyi, a graduate of the “School of Future Leaders”, a student of SumDU and an expert of National Agency of Higher Education QA.
Special thanks to Alina Poznanska, Master Facilitator of the British Council’s Active Citizens program of international level, who has more than 10 years of experience as a trainer of international programs “Youth in Action”, “ERASMUS +” and is the manager of many social action projects.
