Monday, 05 June 2017 15:30

President of the Parliament presents certificates to attendees of Democracy Workshops

President of the Parliament of Montenegro Mr Ivan Brajović today has presented certificates to 3966 students from 72 primary schools, who attended the educational programme Democracy Workshops “Barbara Prammer” in the past nine months.

When addressing the young attendees of the workshops, President Brajović voiced his hope that they acquired basic knowledge of what we were all constantly learning and what we had never learned enough, such as democracy, equality, human rights and tolerance.

The President of the Parliament thanked the parents, teachers, trainers, and colleagues from the Parliament of Montenegro for their continuous engagement in educating children

- I understand the responsibility with which you treat children, their education in the broadest sense. That is not just learning the curriculum, but also learning about the culture of living, social trends, relation towards the challenges they are exposed to, said among other things Mr Brajović in his address.

At the ceremony in villa “Gorica”, the students of the primary school “Blažo Jokov Orlandić” from Bar had presented themselves with an artistic programme.

Democracy Workshops “Barbara Prammer” represent an educational programme of the Parliament of Montenegro, within which the children of primary school age learn about: parliamentary democracy, functioning of the Parliament of Montenegro, adoption and implementation of laws, as well as other topics within civic education.

So far, about 23,000 participants from 121 primary schools from all Montenegrin municipalities participated in the educational programme.

1. Video package (frames of presenting - statement Mr Brajović)

2. Video package (frames of children’s art programme)