The training program consists of three two-day seminars-trainings on the topics: •"Democratic Leadership", •"Parliamentary Procedures", •"Building Public Relations".

The Volyn Resource Center will provide accommodation and meals for participants of the training program, as well as necessary training materials (travel costs to the oblast center are not reimbursed). A total of 25 people will be selected from each oblast (Volyn and Chernivtsi).

To participate in the competition, young (under 35 years old) newly elected deputies from small towns and settlements of the Volyn and Chernivtsi oblasts must send an application form (in the attached file) by April 15, 2006: •by mail to the address: 1 Vidinska St., Apt. 2, Rivne, 33027, or •to the competition's email address vrcrivne@gmail.com

More detailed information about the competition can be obtained by phone: (0362) 290-794, (063) 391-25 96, (095) 402-26-57. Project manager Serhiy Hutyuk.

The training program will take place within the framework of the Volyn Resource Center's project "Promoting Democratic Culture in Small Towns and Settlements of the Volyn and Chernivtsi Oblasts of Ukraine" with financial support from the Westminster Foundation for Democracy, Great Britain.