49 educational institutions take part in the 2nd open competition among the rural schools of Vitebsk, Gomel and Minsk regions of the Republic of Belarus, the «School Garden» as an educational platform for modern safe agricultural technologies».

From Vitebsk region - 20 participants:

- Glubokoe district -1

- Gorodok district - 1

- Sharkovshchina district - 2

- Polotsk district - 2

- Braslav district - 3

- Chashniki district - 1

- Lepel district - 1

- Ushachsky district - 2

- Dokshycy district - 1

- Miory district - 1

- Vitebsk district - 1

- Liozno district - 2

- Rosson district - 2

- Orsha district - 1

 From Gomel region - 14 participants:

- Zhlobin district - 4

- Gomel district - 1

- Kormyansky district - 4

- Chechersk district - 1

- Dobrush district - 1

- Petrikov district - 1

- Bragin district - 1

- Svetlogorsk district - 1

From Minsk region - 14 participants:

- Starodorozhsky district - 1

- Krupsky district - 1

- Smolevichi district - 2

- Dzerzhinsky district - 2

- Soligorsk district - 1

- Chervensky district - 1

- Kletsk district - 4

- Volozhin district - 1

- Lyubansky district - 1

The competition began on April 25 and will end on November 10, 2019. During this period, participants will provide information about their activities at school gardens: a photo report about the spring sowing campaign, photos of the garden for six months, the results of research and educational work, success stories of schoolchildren and school teams, the economic effect, the number of schoolchildren, parents, and sponsors involved.

During the autumn holidays, there will be the two-day conference, where school representatives will exchange experiences, present the results of the season and the development plan for the next year. In the end of the Conference there will be Summing up and rewarding of the winners.

Winning schools will receive a set of information stands, educational materials, equipment, agricultural tools, seedlings, seeds for the development of the school garden, taking into account the development plan for the 2019-2020 academic year, as well as the opportunity to become regional educational gardens on modern safe agricultural technologies.

The competition is held within the framework of the EU4Youth international technical assistance project: «School garden» for the development of agricultural entrepreneurship, funded by the European Union and co-financed by the International Green Cross.

 

This publication has been produced with the support of the European Union and the Green Cross International. Responsibility for the content of this publication lies with the public organization “Green Cross Belarus”, and it can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union and  Green Cross International.