4. Intensive training courses for 75 municipal servants per year from distant Siberian municipal administrations delivered by EU trainers and Russian trainers who were trained in EU Universities/Institutions. In total 225 municipal servants are to be trained for 3 years.

For this purpose there are planned:

• visits of 7 European trainers to deliver intensive face-to-face training courses for 25 municipal servants for 1 week per year (21 trainers for 3 years in total). They are to deliver training courses and to supervise the quality of Russian trainers’ work.
• to hold 1 face-to-face training for 25 municipal servants for 3 weeks per year delivered by Russian trainers who were trained in EU Universities/Institutions . This kind of training is aimed at testing newly developed training courses and getting a feed-back from trainees (75 municipal servants for 3 years in total);
• to hold 2 in-service trainings for 25 municipal servants from different distant municipalities for 4 months per year delivered by Russian trainers to set the distance training system in action (150 municipal servants for 3 years in total);

The testing and introducing of newly developed courses are to be realized during these trainings. The training courses will include, first, insructions in getting computer-mediated training and, second, test audit of distance training technology in the computer class of the Center of Vocational Training of Civil Servants and in workstations in distant municipalities. Testing is very important for checking all the problems and drawbacks of a new way of training.

28 April 2008

The face-to-face training for 26 municipal servants for 2 weeks have been delivered by Russian trainers who were trained in EU Universities/Institutions.

This kind of training was aimed at testing newly developed training courses and getting a feed-back from trainees. The testing and introducing of newly developed courses have been realized during these trainings.

REPORT
on the face-to-face training courses for municipal servants
in Baikal State University of Economics and Law (BSUEL), Russia

Tempus project IB_JEP 26079 – 2005
14 -25 April 2008, Irkutsk

Municipal Economics and Municipal Management

Attendance record

Federal Agency of Education
Baikal State Univercity of Economics and Law (BSUEL)
Joint European Project Tempus IB_JEP-26079/200
Centre of Vocational Training of State & Municipal Servants

SCEDULE
of municipal servants vocational training programme
Municipal Economics and Municipal Management

The syllabus of the main courses developed within the project is as follow:

Civil Service Management

1. Legal Status of Municipal Servants (Which level of public powers establishes this status and by which Legal acts?)
2. Basic Rights of Municipal Servants. Basic Duties of Municipal Servants.
3. Order of municipal servants recruitment (competition, labour contract, terms of labour contract)
4. Classification (categories) of posts (positions) on Municipal Service. Order of establishing the classification (categories).
5. Who establishes this classification and who can change it?
6. Working (office) time and rest period (length of leave, periodicity of vacation, types of vacation – for studying, for updating of qualification). How these types of vacations are reimbursed (paid)?
7. Basic principles of remuneration of labour
8. Incentives for municipal servants
9. Disciplinary liability and penalties on municipal service
10. Record of service (seniority) on municipal service. Social settings (guarantees) for municipal servants.
11. Evaluation of performance and productiveness on municipal service
12. Evaluation procedures on municipal service (attestation, promotion examination, current estimate). Periodicity of these types of evaluation.
13. Which quantitative indices and qualitative characteristics are used for performance and productiveness evaluation? Examples for concrete municipal servants. Who establishes these indices and characteristics?
14. Desertion of municipal service. Reasons for canceling a labour contract with municipal servant.
15. Pension benefit of municipal servant.

Rural Development

1. The theory and practice of rural development in European countries
2. The purposes and criteria of rural social and economic development
3. Methodology of developing and designing of the strategy of rural development
• Approaches to developing and designing of the strategy of rural development
• Ways of agricultural development
• Improvement of investing system
• Improvement of spatial rural development
• Development of social and transport infrastructure in countryside
• Land market development and guaranteeing of land laws application
• Mechanisms of social and economic development strategy implementation

Transportation Development

1. Urban Transportation Planning
2. Economics of Urban Transportation
3. Transportation and Land Use
4. Travel Demand Modeling
5. Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning
6. Public Transportation Systems
7. State and Local Public Finance
8. Transportation Safety Analysis
9. Advanced GIS Applications

Housing Management

1. Organizing of cooperation between Housing Management Companies and Householders in developed countries and in countries with transitional economics.
2. Organizing of cooperation between Housing Management Companies and natural monopolies (i.e., monopolies in water supply, energy supply and other utilities).
3. Normative regulation of Housing Management.
4. Price setting in the housing market (renting of social accommodation, renting of commercial accommodation) and in the market of utilities.
5. Housing and Urban Revitalisation

Urban Development

1. Introduction to the city economy;
2. urban industry and de-industrialisation;
3. services and services exports;
4. implementing sustainable development;
5. infrastructure and space;
6. analysing the city economy and its structural changes;
7. formulating and evaluating city development strategies.

Information technologies in Public administration

1. Ways of information technologies development in Public Administration.
2. E- government : Structure, components
3. Structure, components of Information systems of Local Community.
4. Information System in Public Finance
5. Databases, databanks of Information systems in Public administration
6. GIS in Public Administration
7. Documents Control Systems
8. Project Management in Public administration
9. Systems of Distance Training of Public Servants
10. Internet and Municipal Management. Development of Web-sites of Local Community.

Training participants have filled next Questionnaire and Follow-up Questionnaire

Training participants have been given next documents certified that they have successfully completed the training:

Certificate 1	Certificate 2