On 18 – 22 July 2016 the Joint European Union and United Nations Development Programme “Community Based Approach to Local Development” (CBA) with the support of Kamianets-Podilsky city council holds the Fifth All-Ukrainian  Student Summer School for Sustainable Local Development in Kamianets-Podilsky city Khmelnytska oblast.    

The main goal of the event is to train youth in different aspects of sustainable local development and participatory governance in line with Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. The main task of the school is to demonstrate to the students how in practice local communities in Khmelnytska oblast are implementing their initiatives.

During these five days students will have a lot of different interactive trainings and activities. They will learn to develop their own strategies of sustainable development for local communities and will visit one of the CBA partner communities to see  how community mobilization works in practice to improve living conditions in the communities.   

40 Universities are now members of the National Network of the CBA Project Partner Universities. Out of them 17 Universities already introduced courses in sustainable local development into their curriculum.   The aim of the support to the University Network is to combine theoretical knowledge with practical