The participants were welcomed by the Coordinator of the Understanding Human Rights All Ukrainian Educational Program Serhiy Burov, by the Project Director of Human Rights Education of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee Enver Djuliman, by the Director of the Rule of Law Program of the International Renaissance Foundation Roman Romanov, and by the well-known human rights activist, the representative of the 
Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union Mykola Korobko.
The participants from Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, the Russian Federation, Serbia, Norway and Moldova learned about the projects implemented by the program graduates, about the qualitative and quantitative indicators of the program influence, about the educational techniques and methods, as well as about principles, which organizations and experts involved in the program base their activity upon. The participants were also presented with the results of the external evaluation carried out by the expert of the Polish Association Edukator Marzena Rafalska.
The conference began with the presentation of successful initiatives in the sphere of human rights given by the experts from Ukraine, Belarus, the Russian Federation and Serbia. In between the sessions there was organized a Fair of Educational Initiatives in the Sphere of Human Rights, during which the participants could present their projects in the sphere of human rights education.
At the end of the conference the hosts presented certificates of acknowledgement to the organizations, institutions and experts that had contributed the most to the implementation of the first stage of the action plan of the Understanding Human Rights All Ukrainian Educational Program.
The Conference on the Development of Human Rights Education was held within the framework of the Understanding Human Rights All Ukrainian Educational Program implemented by the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union and the non-governmental organization M’ART with the support of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the International Renaissance Foundation.
