As part of Election awareness at schools project for the year 2013 funded by the EU and implemented in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, the CEC commenced today the first training session aiming to target 60 civic education teachers in 60 schools in west bank.
The training tackles all aspects of the electoral process and related elections laws. Trained teachers will on their turn oversee the conduct of mock elections in targeted schools for around 6000 ninth graders.
The project aims at spreading election awareness among students through the conduct of assimilation (mock) elections to all phases of the electoral process during civic education classes preceded by theoretical sessions.