Each year, the Department of Political Science of the University of Latvia in cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia hosts students from various Ukrainian universities in an intensive training three-month-long intensive module the Young professionals` school: “Studies of the European Union – Internal and Foreign Policy”. This year, the project will be implemented from 19th September to 30th November 2023. The studies will take place in English.

The European Studies module consists of two integrated parts: Foreign Affairs (in which courses such as Europeanization: from partnership to membership will be learned and foundation of the European Union) and Domestic Affairs (governance and management of the European Union, politics and policy in Latvia, strategic communication and public diplomacy). For each module passed, students will receive an internationally recognised certificate from the University of Latvia. The school of young professionals is designed for the young professional who sees their future directly linked with Ukraine in the EU.

The Young professionals` school will be implemented online, enabling a large number of students to be brought together. So far, the module on Foreign Policy has 158 participants, while the module on Domestic Affairs has 171 participants. In all, students from various universities in Ukraine have been received such as Yaroslaw Mudryi National Law University, Oles Honchar Dnipro National University, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Institute for International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Lviv Polytechnic National University and others.

We wish the students' have productive future months and experience-rich studies!

The project received development cooperation financing from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2023.

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