On July 8th, 2011 a training seminar on inter-ethnic tolerance for members of Chernivtsi city and three district councils was conducted. It was organized by Bukovinian Political Studies Center and the Institute of European Integration and Regional Studies within the project «Monitoring of the Balanced Etno-National Relations Formation Process in the Chernivtsi Region», which was supported by International Renaissance Foundation.
Participants has got acquaintance with the results of focus group research with representatives of national and cultural associations of Chernivtsi region as well as with the results of media monitoring, which revealed the most common ethnic stereotypes that consciously or unconsciously had been broadcasted by journalists.
Besides, the workshop participants received the «Handbook of interethnic tolerance», which became a kind of final document of the said project.
Deputies found an interesting test for ethnic tolerance, after which there was a discussion of its results. Most of them demonstrated an average level of interethnic tolerance.
Following the seminar the main ways of improving the activities of local authorities to support tolerant relations between people of different nationalities were outlined as well as the means of increasing tolerance of their officials were worked out.