In the national library GYLA Foundation for the Support of Legal Education held closing ceremony of the project “Promotion of Civil and Legal Education” on May 25, 2015.

 

The project aims public awareness raising about civil and legal education, development of professional skills among civil education teachers and provision of civil education through intensive training course. In the framework of the project Street Law guidebook, published in 2014 by the Foundation for the Support of Legal Education in cooperation with GIZ, was introduced in public school curriculum.

 

It was a pilot project implemented in Tbilisi and Kutaisi. Totally 82 civil education teachers from 80 public schools were trained in the framework of the project.  

The president of the Foundation for the Support of Legal Education, representatives from GIZ and the Ministry of Education delivered a speech at the ceremony.

 

Teachers’ house and the Legal Clinic of master’s study program of Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University are partners of the Foundation in the framework of the project. Financial support is provided by GIZ.

 

Since 2015 Foundation for the Support of Legal Education has been cooperating with the school children, as well as students and other stakeholders for provision of comprehensive civil and legal education.