ONLINE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM 2020

In 2020 the online certificate program «EvidenceBased Public Policy: Best EU Practices» has been launched. Aiming at presenting European standards of the formation and realization of the public policy partcipants were lectured about the EU Policies, the peculiarities of the policy-making in the EU, the RIA mechanisms, the stakeholder analysis practices, the risk management and mitigation as well as legal drafting standards. Special focus has been put on the law-making procedures in the EU. The program was on the ZOOM, MS Teams platforms, e-mail communication and other online and offline teaching modes.

Online Certififcate Program 2020 (20 May - 12 October 2020), Spring Semester 2019/2020 gathered 15 attendees from Lviv, Ternopil and Dnirpopetrvsk oblasts of Ukraine and 5 WURCES SRFs lectured during the event.

ONLINE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM 2021

In 2021 the online certificate program «Evidence-Based Public Policy: Best EU Practices» has been conducted at the Ivan Franko National University. Due to the quarantine restrictions teaching took place on the MS Teams platform. The main goal of the program was tto present to the participants European standards of public policy-making and the formation of analytical skills to be used for distance formats. During the program participants deepened their knowledge about the EU Policies, public policy-making RIA mechanisms, the stakeholder analysis practices, the risk management during crisis, social challenges, pandemics and other forcemajeure circumstances and the legal drafting of policy-related documents.

Online Certififcate Program 2021 (9-30 March 2021), Spring Semester 2020/2021 had 20 participants from Ukraine and 4 WURCES SRFs lectured during the training.

At the Online Certificate Program 2021 (1 November - 6 December 2021), Winter Term 2021/2022 registered 110 applicants, up to 75 participants were present daily online, 95 partcipants were recommended to be awarded the certficates.At the program lectured 5 WURCES SRFs.

ONLINE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM 2023

From February 6, till February 10, 2023 the online certificate program «Evidence-Based Public Policy: Best EU Practices» has been conducted at the Lviv University. The teaching took place on the MS Teams platform beacuse of the wartime. The WURCES team and invited guest lecturers introduced to partcipants European practices of public policy-making with special special focus on stakeholder analysis, regulatory impact assessment, legal drafting and risk management, especially in the case of the forcemajeure circumstances during the war. The participants addressed in their discussions contemporary developments in EU Migration Policy, European Green Deal, EU Common Defence and Security Policy focusing on the impacts of the russian war against Ukraine.

75 applicants registered for the 2023 Online Certificate Program on Evidence-Based Public Policymaking. During the first day of the OCP there were 64 attendees, during the second day of the OCP there were 59 participants, during the third day of the OCP t here were 54 participants, during the forth day of the OCP were 38 participants present and during the fifth day there were 45 attendees. At the OCP 2023 lectured 7 lecturers: 6 speakers were from Ukraine and 1 speaker was from Lithuania.