On June 8, a workshop organized by G-STAR partners. A project coordinator and construction bri-gades participated in the workshop. During the workshop the participants discussed the following three topics, (i) skills development trainings; (ii) challenges and success stories; and (iii) apprenticeship in con-struction brigades. In the first hour, the partners of the project AMETiS and CEEBA shared the information about EE skills development trainings in rural areas. In addition, they also shared the challenges that oc-curred during organization of trainings. Then the participants discussed their success stories, in particular brigades that significantly affected the daily life. Lessons learned from success stories have helped partici-pants better organize their work onwards.
A brigade leader told that nowadays it is difficult to compete in energy-efficient construction mar-ket, in particular, in the field of insulation of houses and construction of stoves. He said: “The advantage in market competition is that I have been using knowledge which I gained from marketing trainings organized by G-STAR”.
Moreover participants expressed their interest to improve the skills on marketing their services, through the social web-pages and the internet. The project coordinator has noted their request and in-formed that he will pay attention on this topic in the future.
In the final hours, the workshop participants have agreed that next step of the focus will be improving graduates` apprenticeship in current construction brigades.

Starting from May 27 to 29th, in the framework of the project “Green Skills Training in Rural Areas” was organized theoretical and practical trainings in the field of constructing energy-efficient stoves and insulating houses. The training was organized by the project partner AMETiS in Shabdan village, Kemin region of the Chui oblast. In total, 12 people with construction skills successfully graduated from the trainings. In this training, the participants distinguished themselves in that they were very well organized and have formed own construction teams.

At the beginning of this year, within the framework of the M-STAR project, to improve qualifications of the teaching staff of the madrassas was organized an analysis of the needs. Based on the results of the analysis, the topics of trainings were defined and the training program was drawn up. According to the schedule of the training program from May 22 to May 24 in the cities of Bishkek and Osh, organized training on "Management and financial accounting." To this training had participated the directors of the madrasahs, selected in the framework of the M-STAR project. According to the participants, the training was interesting, and they were able to get new knowledge.

In May 2018, in the southern region of the republic, Osh, Jalal-Abad and Batken oblasts, PF "AVEP" in the framework of the "M-STAR" project enrolled English language courses in selected 7 madrassas. For the teaching of English, 10 students were selected from each madrasah, with a total of 70 students.