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Towards Modern Gagauzia TOWARDS MODERN GAGAUZIA Recommendations and conclusions from Working Groups on Youth & Sport, Education & Culture, Social Infrastructure and Regional Development GAMOCON – Gagauzian Modernization Convention Implemented by: This publication was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of Slovak Foreign Policy Association and Public Association Youth of Gagauzia SFPASlovak Foreign Policy Association and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union. www.sfpa.sk www.youthofgagauzia.com www.kdu.md TOWARDS MODERN GAGAUZIA Recommendations and conclusions from Working Groups on Youth & Sport, Education & Culture, Social Infrastructure and Regional Development GAMOCON – Gagauzian Modernization Convention Comrat, 2019 © Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association © Public Association Youth of Gagauzia © Authors Research Center of the Slovak Foreign Policy Association Staromestská 6/D 811 03 Bratislava Tel.: +421 2 5443 3151 www.sfpa.sk Public Association Youth of Gagauzia Victory str. 188/a MD – 3801 Comrat Tel: +373 699 43 150 www.youthofgagauzia.com Authors Natalia Cojocar, Radion Velchev, Anna Niagova, Alla Levitskaya Reviewers Soňa Štefančíková, Milan Číčel, Marek Plavčan, Vladimír Benč Comrat, 2019 Published within the project GaMCon – Gagauzian Modernization Convention www.gamcon.org This publication appears thanks to the support of the European Union, SlovakAid, International Visegrad Fund, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Contents STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH AND SPORTS ATU GAGAUZIA (2019 – 2024) ....................................................... 5 MODERNIZATION STRATEGY OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS UNDER THE GAMCON PROJECT................................................................ 45 YOUNG FAMILY SUPPORT STRATEGY ............................................................ 59 PLAN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF VITICULTURE AND VINE-MAKING TOURISM OF ATU GAGAUZIA ...................................... 93 CONCLUSION ......................................................................................................... 167 STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUTH AND SPORTS ATU GAGAUZIA (2019 – 2024) Recommendations and conclusions from Working group Youth & Sport Elaborated by: Natalia Cojocar Reviewed by: Soňa Štefančíková Introduction The Strategic Action Plan on the development of youth and sports for 2019–2024 (hereinafter referred as “the SAP”) is the main document of the youth policy, defining the general and specific tasks for the development of the sphere of youth and sports in the ATU Gagauzia until 2024, as well as the main activities to solve the tasks. At the present stage, the sphere of youth policy includes a whole range of social, economic, political issues, problems of demography, family and housing policy, education, upbringing, science, sports and psychology. Their effective solution is impossible without investments in human capital, and above all, in youth. As is known, human resources, including young people, along with other values, are one of the major factors in the development of each country. This will allow to consider the state youth policy as one of the most important directions of the society’s develop- ment. Determination of the state youth policy from the political and social point of view is essential in a country, which has is constantly growing demographic landscape. To date, favorable starting conditions for various categories of young people have been created and continue its formation in the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia (Gagauz Yeri). Every young person has a real opportunity to become in demand and successful. A working group within GAMCON project was created for the development of this strategic action plan. Specialists of the Department of Youth and Sports of the ATU Gagauzia, the Department of Economics of the ATU Gagauzia, representatives of the youth government, non-governmental organizations, international and local experts, teachers of the Comrat State University, the Employment Agency of ATU Gagauzia were involved in the working group. The purpose of the SAP is the following: – providing young people with the equal opportunities and adequate condi- tions, which will enable them to deepen their knowledge and develop skills of active participation in all spheres of life through their full integration and involvement, the access to information and quality services in the field of education, health-care and leisure; – creation of the conditions providing young people of the Autonomy with a possibility to lead a healthy lifestyle, and to be systematically engaged in the physical culture and sports; – involvement of the population in physical education and sports on the regular basis, formation of the need in the active healthy lifestyle among the popula- tion of the autonomous unit. As a result of the SAP’s implementation, a strategic vision of the generation of active, highly educated young people, capable to integrate into society socially and gamcon.org 7 economically, who are in demand on the labor market with a decent standard of living, allowing them to create healthy families and satisfy economic, political, social and cultural needs, will become a reality. Objectives: – ensuring access for young people to education and information; – providing economic opportunities for the youth; – strengthening the institutional capacity in the field of youth; – development of the children and youth sports; – provision of the training, retraining and advanced professional training for the specialists in the physical culture and sports; – raising the interest of various categories of citizens to physical culture and sports through the promotion of physical culture, sports and healthy lifestyle; – raising of extrabudgetary funds and investments in the field of physical culture and sports. The Target Group: The SAP is intended for all young people – citizens of the Republic of Moldova living in the territory of the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauzia (Gagauz Yeri) aged between 14 and 35 years.1 The SAP is addressed to the institutions responsible for the implementation of youth policy, specialists and employees in the field of youth and sports, teachers, educators, psychologists, and youth associations and organizations. The document on the youth policy planning is based on the following funda- mental principles: – exclusion of discrimination and provision of equal opportunities – each young person, regardless of gender, age, religion, social and ethnic origin, political views or any other peculiarities, has equal opportunities for the full development of his/her potential as an individual and as a citizen; – respect and assurance of young people as full-fledged citizens – young people are full-fledged citizens with the same rights and duties as any other social group, including the right to freedom of opinion and expression, and freedom of assembly; – encouraging the youth’s participation – young people should be supported in realization of their rights for their full participation in public life and in solving social problems; – promotion of the international cooperation – development of the youth through the establishment of international partnerships in order to dissemi- 1 The Youth Law Nr. 215 of 29.07.2016 8 Gagauzian Modernization Convention – GaMCon nate successful practices and positive experiences, as well as to strengthen the intercultural dialogue. Situation in the field of youth Demographic data in the Republic of Moldova According to the national legislation, young people are persons aged between 14 and 35 years, while the official statistics of the Republic of Moldova operates with the age category between 15 and 29 years. The share of young people is 27.3 per- cent in the total population of the Republic of Moldova. This age group includes the upper-form (senior) pupils, students, employed young people, qualified young professionals and young people who do not have a specialty and who are in search of work, young families, etc. Table 1. Key demographic indicators Total population of the Republic of Moldova, thousand 3572,7 Young population aged between 15 and 29 years, thousand 977,1 The share of youth in the total population, % 27,3 Urban young population aged between 15 and 29 years, thousand 441,8 The share of youth in the total urban population, % 29,9 Rural young population aged between 15 and 29 years, thousand 535,3 The share of youth in the total rural population, % 25,5 Female young population aged between 15 and 29 years, thousand 480,9 The share of youth in the total female population, % 25,9 Male young population aged between 15 and 29 years, thousand 496,2 The share of youth in the total male population, % 28,9 Unemployed youth aged between 15 and 29 years, thousand 25,9 The share of youth in the total unemployed population, % 10,5 Young population at the age between 15 and 29 years old, who went abroad, thousand 139,1 The share of youth in the total population, who went abroad, % 14,2 Summary of the current situation, needs, and possibilities of the development The youth’s situation Negative trends, such as the increasing migration of young people, high unemploy- ment among people aged between 15 and 19 years, the number of young people gamcon.org 9 who are neither studying nor working, the high percentage of relative poverty and problematic behavior in relation to health, including the particularly
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