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 RUSSIA
 Russian Center for Citizenship Education (RCCE)
Contact: Igor Nagdasev
The RCCE established in 1992 is the outgrowth of the Dartmouth
Conference, the long-standing series of off-the-record bilateral
talks between Russian and American citizens. The Center is an independent,
non-profit public organization dedicated to addressing the needs of the
civil society development
in Russia through educational, research and publishing programs.
In partnership with a network of individuals and institutions the Center focuses
on achieving the following objectives:
• Introducing for local activists basic skills of organizing and conducting
seminars on civic democracy and public participation in local communities;
• Developing enrichment programs for current teachers in the sphere of civic
education;
• Training moderators for the National Issues Forums program (ongoing series
of discussions in local communities, public associations, educational establishments
on issues of public interest);
• Adapting for Russian cultural and political environment the methods of civic
education which have been successfully used in other countries;
• Conducting theoretical research on related topics;
• Organizing sociological surveys on related topics;
• Publishing textbooks, manuals on civic education and discussion guides for
the National Issues Forums;
• Maintaining the exchange of information and ideas in the realm of citizenship
education and community activism;
• Creating the data base on the topics related to the goals and the tasks of
the Center.
Recently, the Russian Center for Citizenship Education has been involved in the
following projects:
• In cooperation with the Joint Eastern Europe Center for Democratic Education
and Governance (Budapest, Hungary) the Center organized a need assessment seminars
on curriculum development around the country. These seminars initiated consortium
of Nizhniy Novgorod Pedagogical University, Syracuse University and RCCE for
civic education curriculum development. The first draft of the framework has
been accomplished recently.
• In cooperation with small press the first series of publications which is
called "The
ABC of Democracy" has been published. Several Kettering Foundation's books
for citizens have been translated and published in this series.
• The Center has begun its public forum process, adapted from the National Issues
Forum initiated by the Kettering Foundation and now developed in six other
nations as well. The Center has worked out the first series of Russian discussion
guides
which include issue-books on the issues of criminal violence, political participation,
poverty in Russia, etc. with the input of sociologists, educators, lawyers,
and community activists. The Center is planning to continue this process.
• More than 30 institutions participate in a supportive network of the Center,
and they range from several political parties to human rights organizations
such as Moscow Helsinki Watch Group and the International Research Center for
Human
Rights, to educational institutions such as Research and Methodological Center "Citizen",
Moscow Pedagogical University, Russian Open University, to public organizations
such as Democratic Russia, an association of Russian grass-roots organizations,
and Democratic Choice, a grass-roots public organization, to media such as
Orechovo Public TV, Radio-Youth. Through the projects with newly-formed private
business
structures and commerce training schools, the center expects to influence the
new generation of Russian entrepreneurs. The Centers contacts range from Moscow
to Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Nizhniy Novgorod, Krasnodar,
Rostov-on-Don, etc. The institution of Center's regional representatives has
been introduced
in four key regions of Russia.
• Local issue-books development has been started with the issue-framing workshops
in several Russian cities including Vologda, Cherepovets, Nizhniy Novgorod,
and Briansk. This project involved public leaders, journalists, educators,
sociologists
local governments representatives. In connection with local issues forum process
the Center is planing to develop a TV format for its Civic Forum.
The Center is provided with intellectual and technical assistance from the International
Advisory Board, which includes The Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Project Public
Life of the Hubert H Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of
Minnesota, and The Walt Whitman Center for the Cultural and Politics of Democracy
at the Rutgers University. In the development of its educational research and
publishing programs the Russian Center for Citizenship Education is open for
cooperation with all organizations that share its goals and purposes.
Novosibirsk State Regional Scientific Library
Contact: Lyudmila Posteluyeva
Foundation for the Development of Civic Culture (FDCC)
Contact: Denis Makarov
FDCC is an independent, non-profit institution
dedicated to developing a democratic citizenry and promoting the
values of an open society through educational, cultural, research and
publishing
programs. FDCC was established in 1996 on the initiative of a group
of Russian scholars from Moscow State Pedagogical University, the Library
of Foreign Literature, and the Center for Political Consulting (Moscow)
who were interested in working together to promote the growth of
civil society and democratic culture in Russia. Center
for Sociological Studies (CSS)
The CSS at the Moscow
M. V. Lomonosov State University is part of the University's research
institutes.
It was founded
in 1993 as the result of merging of the Research Laboratory for Educational
Problems (1972) and the Center for the Studies of Public Opinion (1987).
The CSS now ranks among the national leading full-service marketing
and opinion
research institutions.
Publications: See ICSC Publications
Foundation for Opinion
Research
Contact: Alissa Fomina
The Foundation for Opinion Research was
founded in January 2004. Its mission is to:
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Ensure that public opinion is a real and equal partner with institutes of authority.
Development of dialogue of authority with the population and the organizations of the
third sector.
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Provide assistance towards the development of professional research activity and the
professional quality standards of researches and consolidation of research community.
Conduct own scientific research activity focused on collections of reliable and proved
results, objectively reflecting those or other themes of societal living and developmental
issues.
 
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