General Election Study Visit to the Czech Republic

The objective was to organise an international study visit that aimed to enable youth representatives from democratic political powers from Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova and the former Yugoslav countries to examine at first hand the electoral process in a country which successfully overcame the anti democratic legacy of a communist regime to achieve membership of the EU and NATO.
At the same time we wanted to set a platform where all the participants can share their experience and communicate their achievement in political campaigning and politics in general. The participants met with representatives of political parties and organizations from other EU countries which enabled them to establish new contacts which can be useful for their further development.
Program of the project included: participation at on-street campaign, visit to information centre of ODS (Civic Democratic Party), TV discussion, visit to both chambers of the Czech Parliament, visit to the poling station, lectures of political marketing and party management and meeting with partners from EU member states political foundations as an important networking element.