“Training on alternative dispute resolution as an approach for ensuring of human rights” (TRADIR).

Project number:  543990-TEMPUS-1- 2013-1-DE-TEMPUS-JPCR 

Duration: 1st December 2013 – 30th November 2016

Project status: finished.

Partners:

Universitaet Potsdam (Germany) – Project coordinator

Link Campus University (Italy)

Vilnius University (Lithuania)

Marie Skłodowska-Curie University (Poland)

Boleslawa Markowskiego High School of Commerce in Kielce (Poland)

Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (Ukraine)

V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine)

Khmelnitsky University of Management and Law (Ukraine)

Belarusian State University (Belarus)

Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno (Belarus)

Belarusian Republican Union of Lawyers (Belarus)

Specific objectives of the project:

1. The development of syllabus for course on alternative dispute resolution; modernization of syllabuses for relevant existing courses in PC universities;

2. Structural and conceptual development of a new curriculum for Master's degree (oriented on practice) in economic law and ADR, in combination with a modern, focused on the European level of scientific supervision methods of teaching of master-students and teachers who have received training, supporting by educational and research materials, including components in foreign language, electronic media and e-learning, the implementation procedures for starting of Master in universities of BY (2) and UA (3). One of the important aims of the TRADIR Project will be to explore the possibilities to issue "double" or "joint" Master's degree.

3. Improvement of professional and pedagogical qualification of PC teachers and modernize teaching infrastructure.

Results:

• A new master's program in the specialty 1-24 81 05 "Legal Support of Alternative Conflict and Dispute Resolution" has been opened and is successfully functioning.
• Training materials for all disciplines of the established master degree programme with the stamp of the Ministry of Education were prepared and published
• 2 computer classes were equipped (16 and 11 computers, multifunctional devices and other equipment), equipment for a lecture hall (total 25 810 euros)
• New scientific and educational literature, periodicals to ensure the educational process purchased (4 535,71 евро)
• 6 lecturers of the Faculty of Law have completed internships at European partner universities
• Potsdam University hospitably hosted the First (Kick-Off) conference of the TRADIR-project from 9 to 13 March 2014. The conference covered a wide range of issues, including presentation of the coordinator and partners, discussion of the content and the financial part of the project, its methodology and principles; project managers and logo were adopted, working groups were built, as well as the planned activities for 2014 were discussed.
• From 9 to 13 November 2014 the Law Faculty of YKSUG hosted the First Progress-Seminar. The seminar was attended by representatives of the partners involved: University of Potsdam, Federal Republic of Germany (coordinator); Belarusian State University, Minsk, Republic of Belarus; Link Campus University, Rome, the Italian Republic; Vilnius University, Lithuania; Boleslawa Markowskiego High School of Commerce in Kielce, Poland; Lviv National University, Ukraine; Khmelnytsky University of Management and Law, Ukraine; Kharkiv Ntional University, Ukraine; Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Belarus. Professors from partner universities of the EU countries gave lectures to the participants of the seminar on alternative dispute resolution in foreign countries from 10 to 12 November 2014. After each presentation there were discussions on the presented topics. Both sides exchanged views and shared experiences on alternative dispute resolution in civil procedure, criminal procedure, labor law and environmental law.  During seminar the work on curricula and training programs for new master programms in the Republic of Belarus and Ukraine in the field of alternative dispute resolution was discussed taking into account the experience of the EU countries. 
• From 14 to 28 April 2015
• April 23-25, 2015, Lviv National University hosted an Evaluation, which was attended by representatives of the partner universities of Ukraine and Belarus, among which, in particular, Khmelnitsky University of Management and Law, Lviv National University named after I. Franko, Kharkiv National University named after V. Karazin, Belarusian State University, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno. During the seminar was held online conference with Professor Peter Kamminga, an expert from the Netherlands in the field of alternative dispute resolution; were discussed course books, teaching materials developed within the Project, curricula and programs. 
• May 3-6, 2015: the Third Coordination Meeting was hosted at the Link Campus University (Italy). As part of the Meeting participants were informed about the project in their universities, opening procedure of new Master's program. Financial issues and developed plan for the next six months were discussed.
• The representatives of the Belarusian State University, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, National University of Kharkiv, Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko, Khmelnytsky University of Management and Law visited the University of Potsdam (Germany) during 10-29 May 2015. The participants listened to the lectures on "Challenges of the German Arbitration", "The main provisions of the German Criminal Law", "Corporate Law", "Protection of human rights by the UN Committee on Human Rights", which were conducted by professors of the University of Potsdam during the event. Additionally, during the workshops in the format of working groups teachers were provided with information about the system of legal education in Germany, especially the organization of practices for students, as well as demonstrated and discussed examples of examination tasks for higher education graduates. Separate training was devoted to discussion of the theoretical and practical foundations of mediation in Germany, playing models of this procedure by using a professional mediator. During the visit, the participants also visited the University Library, Centre for Human Rights, as well as the Upper House of the German Parliament - the Bundesrat, located in Berlin.
• Students and teachers from the Belarusian State University, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Kharkiv National University, Khmelnytsky University of Management and Law, Lviv National University took part in the I International Summer School "Training on alternative dispute resolution as an approach for ensuring of human rights" during 23-27 June 2015. The Summer School took place at the Belarusian state University (Minsk, Belarus). During the event participants listened to the lectures on "Environmental Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution", "European companies: key features," "Conciliation form of the termination of criminal proceedings by the German criminal procedural law", "Mediation in environmental conflicts", "Resolution of labour disputes in Lithuania", which were conducted by professors of universities from Germany, Lithuania and Belarus.
• The representatives of Partner-Universities visited the Khmelnitsky University of Management and Law during 30 September - 4 October 2015. The delegates participated in the second workshop to assess the quality of performance of the Tempus-project. During the seminar, a discussion and a presentation of published in the framework of the project course books and teaching materials for training of masters on a specialty "Economic Law and Alternative Dispute Resolution" were held. There were held lectures of the German, Lithuanian and Polish experts on the problems of legal regulation and improvement of methods alternative dispute resolution in the legal system of Belarus, Ukraine and the European Union and developing methods of teaching of relevant disciplines. In addition, the monitoring mission of the National Tempus / ERASMUS + Office in Ukraine attended the seminar. The PWT also took part in the fourth coordination meeting. The event promoted the exchange of experiences, deepen and strengthen the long-term mutually beneficial partnership between educational institutions.
• From 15 to 20 November 2015 at the University of Potsdam (Germany) there were held training sessions for librarians. Librarians got to know the arrangement and equipment of funds of information and communication media center of the Potsdam University (IKMZ), with the processes of gathering of library collections, print and electronic media. The participants of the training also got acquainted with the basic principles of service of students, library equipment in a German higher education institution, as well as the process of serving readers majoring in philology and law, the peculiarities of logistics of the foundation and lending of rare editions. The staff of the host institution shared the strategies for Open Access implementation in Potsdam University Library on a fee-paying basis. Implementation of such educational activities for librarians is an effective form of international professional communication and exchange of experience.
• Final International Conference «Actual problems of legal education in the context of training on alternative dispute resolution as an approach for ensuring of human rights» was held in Minsk on 29 NovemberDecember. The purpose of the Conference was to bring together researchers, teachers and practitioners interested in the advanced methods of legal education as well as master and doctoral students. The Final Conference also provided information about the results of the TRADIR-Project. More than 70 leading academics, teachers and legal practitioners in the fields of training on alternative methods of resolution of legal disputes from Belarus, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine took part in the conference.
• The Second Summer School for teachers and students took place in the V. N. Karazin University (Kharkiv), bringing together participants from Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Poland. Second Summer School was held from 15 to 19 June 2016. During the event a lecture on "Harmonisation of European civil procedural law" was held . The program of the school included a variety of lectures, visit to the Commercial Court of Kharkiv region and Kharkiv Commercial Court of Appeal.
• Thanks to the successful and positive experience of cooperation in the framework of TRADIR project, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno was invited to join a new project, which was approved by the European Commission in August 2018: “Modernization of Master Programs for Future Judges, Prosecutors, Investigators to Consider European Human Rights Standards” (CRIMHUM).

TRADIR bulletin

Project website https://tradir.bsu.by/en/