ISSN 1313-6496The Second Edition of the Access to Information and Public Communications Course Ended
13 students from the New Bulgarian University acquired knowledge on access to information standards and legislation by practical examples from the APIA implementation
On January 19, 2018, the Access to Information Programme (AIP) presented certificates to the students from professional program “Public Communications and Information Sciences” at the New Bulgarian University for successfully passing the practical course “Access to Information Public Communications.” The AIP delivers the course for a second year, encompassing the period November 2017 – January 2018.
The lawyers from the AIP legal team Darina Palova, Alexander Kashumov, Kiril Terziiski, and Stephan Anguelov were the course lecturers. The syllabus included access to information standards and legislation, as well as specific examples of the Access to Public Information Act use, especially for journalistic investigations.
As a practical assignment, the students prepared access to information requests on a diversity of topics and sent them by e-mail to different institutions. The AIP lawyers assisted the formulation of the requests and the identifying of the responsible institutions.
Students prepared articles on their access to information experience that would be published in the AIP monthly FOI newsletter.
The course is held in partnership with the Mass Communications Department of the New Bulgarian University and is within the project Transparency Advice Center supported by the America for Bulgaria Foundation.
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