Катерина

Kateryna Zeziulina

Date of birth: 09/06/1987 Nationality: Ukrainian Gender: Female Phone number: [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») (Mobile)

Email address: [відкрити контакти](див. вище в блоці «контактна інформація») Website:

https://www.salto-youth.net/tools/toy/kateryna-zeziulina.3346/ Website:

https://trainers-youthapplications.coe.int/trainers/show/346770

WORK EXPERIENCE

HUMAN RIGHTS AND CIVIC EDUCATION TRAINER – THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE YOUTH DEPARTMENT – 01/10/2010 –
Current

• Drafting and developing educational programme based on defined aim and objectives including complementary
background materials and presentations, and evaluation forms for participants;
• Leading and facilitating plenary sessions and working groups discussions in training programme;
• Providing a final evaluation report on training, including an overview and analysis of the evaluation by the
participants and contributions by other consultants.
• Mentoring and following-up young people activities initiated during the educational events.

Some examples of implemented activities:
24-28 November, 2025 Training of multipliers on implementing participatory youth policy, youth participation and civic
participation in decision-making process based on the Council of Europe standards, Lviv, Ukraine.
07-12 December, 2024 Training for 25 youth activists on European values and identity "Bridges to Europe", Dnipro,
UKraine.
August-November, 2024 Developing 2 educational programmes (for school pupils and young activists) on youth
activism “Youth Empowerment for Civic Engagement of Young IDPs in Ukraine”.
26 November - 01 December, 2023 Long-term educational and practical programme “PARTICIPATORY YOUTH POLICY”,
Training for trainers for representatives of the entities providing educational services in the field of vocational training
for civil servants and local self-government officials, Lviv, Ukraine.
07-11 August 2023 training course "Activating Human Rights" on human rights, equality and inclusion for 25 University
students and youth activists of Dnipro, supported by European Youth Foundation, Dnipro, Ukraine.
20 April – 30 June 2023 (including e-learning) training course Young activists for democracy, 32 young activists of the
Council of Europe member states, European Youth Centre Strasbourg.
27 February – 04 March 2023 training course for youth workers on human rights education with young Ukrainian
refugees and host communities in Romania.
24-28 October 2022 online training course for trainers in non-formal education for the youth work practitioners in
Ukraine, the Council of Europe Office in Kyiv.

EXPERT ON ONLINE COURSE ADAPTATION – YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAM, SHL – 08/2024 – 01/2025

• Developing the general programme of the online course on civic education for teachers (including aim, objective,
expected learning results).
• Creating session outlines for online and offline sessions, skripts for educational videos, frames for hometasks.
• Drafting leraning materials and handouts.
• Developing evaluation forms and methodology.
• Facilitating online and offline sessions on non-formal edducation and civic activism for a group of selected
teachers.
• Summarising results of the course.

EXTERNAL CONSULTANT ON CIVIC EDUCATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS – IFES UKRAINE – 01/11/2022 – 05/2024

• Developing methodological materials for the Inclusive civic education online course "Democracy trough actions" on
national online educational platform "Diiya.Osvita";
• Adopting SEED methodology (Strengthening Engagement through Education for Democracy) for Ukrainian realities;
• Preparing texts for video, audio and other materials for the civic education online course;
• Development and writing of course textbooks, trainers’ manuals, workbooks;
• Running training for future facilitators of the regional training based on the course;
• Supervising and mentoring facilitators during regional training realization;

Examples of the completed work:
Educational series "Демократія через дії". Platform Diya.Education
Trainer's guidebook on running module trainings "Democracy through Actions"

NATIONAL CONSULTANT ON YOUTH POLICY, YOUTH WORK AND SOCIAL COHESION – THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
PROJECT "YOUTH FOR DEMOCRACY IN UKRAINE" – 01/02/2021 – 05/2024 – UKRAINE

• Creating educational materials (courses, methodological papers, reports) based on the received data.
• Developing methodological materials to run educational activities for civil servants, youth workers and activists on
community dialogue, social cohesion and youth policy;
• Drafting a concept-note (an agenda) including a proposal of aims and objectives, competences addressed, profile of
participants and key learning outcomes of educational activities for civil servants;
• Leading and facilitating plenary sessions and working groups discussions, providing expert advice, supporting teams
of participants.
Examples of the completed work:
Model General Short-Term Training Programme “Participatory Youth Policy” (approved by National Agency
of Ukraine on Civil Service) for proffessional development of civil servants and officials of local selfgovernment.
Training manual for the Programme “Participatory Youth Policy”.

TRAINER OF "SCHOOLS FOR DEMOCRACY: SUPPORTING EDUCATIONAL REFORMS IN UKRAINE" – EUROPEAN
WERGELAND CENTER – 01/12/2015 – 01/12/2023 – UKRAINE

Responsibilities:
• Developing educational materials and running blended courses on teachers professional development within
programme objectives;
• Consulting school teams on developing and implementing initiatives for improving their local communities;
• Running trainings and consultation meetings with mixed groups (school administration, teachers, students, civil
society activists);
• Supporting planning and implementation of local initiatives within all-school approach;
• Promoting human rights education and democratic citizenship approach in schools of Ukraine.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR – YOUTH NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION “MIKS” – 01/09/2010 – 01/01/2019 –
KAMYANSKE, UKRAINE

Youth NGO "MIKS" started as initiative of a group of social active young people of Dnipropetrovsk region. The
organization works with youth between 18 and 30, pupils, students and unemployed youth. It is aimed to increase
youth participation and activism on a local level by giving opportunities to young people to travel, learn and realize
their ideas.
Main tasks:
• Partnership and networking development for finding financial support of the projects;
• Development of youth projects and support of youth initiatives:
• Organizing local and international youth projects (training courses, youth exchanges, conferences, internships);
• Supervising team of NGO members;
• Communication with partners (local government, educational institutions, international NGOs).

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

16/09/2020 – 30/09/2020 Online
VIRTUAL FACILITATOR FINLAND TRAINING PROGRAM Facilitation Park Agency

• Online facilitation: focusing, group forming, participants involvement.
• Instruments of interaction and ice breaking
• Group dynamics online: me-we-us, mini-groups, cycle of learning, reflection.
• Visualization of process. Best practices of virtual meetings
• Instruments of prioritization: voting, ranging, clustering, analysis, evaluation.
3 theoretical modules were combined with practical performance of obtained skills.

06/05/2019 – 10/05/2019 Cologne, Germany
CONSTRUCTIVE THIRD-PARTY INTERVENTION Academy for Conflict Transformation in the Forum of Civil
Peace Service

01/09/2009 – 30/06/2010 Dnipro, Ukraine
MA IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, CERTIFICATE PROGRAMME IN RISK-MANAGEMENT Dnipropetrovsk National
University after O.Gonchar

01/09/2004 – 30/08/2008 Kyiv, Ukraine
BA IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, MINOR - HISTORY National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Mother tongue(s): RUSSIAN | UKRAINIAN
Other language(s):

UNDERSTANDING SPEAKING WRITING

Listening Reading Spoken production Spoken interaction

ENGLISH C2 C2 C1 C1 C1

Levels: A1 and A2: Basic user; B1 and B2: Independent user; C1 and C2: Proficient user