Training 'The Fundamentals of a Democratic Society Stockholm 2015’

At the beginning of June we assisted in a project training ‘The Fundamentals of a Democratic Society Stockholm 2015’, organized by NGO “Active Ukrainians in Europe”.  The project had taken place for 12 days since the 1st of June and included activities in Stockholm (different meetings), Gotland and in NGO’s place.  There were participants from Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Russia, Moldova, Sweden, Denmark and Belgium.

Among events in Stockholm were meetings with Civil Rights Defenders, Östgruppen, Swedish Institute, Amnesty International, European House and even with the politician Stefan Nilsson from Swedish Parliament. (we even had an excursion over the Parliament and visited Old Chambers!!)  We took part in most of these events. Also our manager from Framtidståget Kristina Morzevska made a presentation of our hosting NGO for participants, which happened to be very interesting and followed by a lot of questions.

Of course, every evening there was an intercultural evening, presented by country’s national food, souvenirs, songs etc. I think Georgian and Belarusian evenings were really the best ones. ;)

On the 6th of June there was National Day in Sweden. And participants also took part in it but in their own way. At that day they organized so-called Vyshyvanka [‘embroidery’] March, Ukrainians and Belarusians were wearing their folk clothes with beautiful embroided or printed ornaments. :)