On November 11, 2022, a press conference will be held in Minsk on the topic: «Integration and Opportunities for Realizing the Potential of People with Visual Disabilities», timed to coincide with the International Day of the Blind, which takes place annually on November 13.
The event will be attended by representatives of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus, the Minsk City Executive Committee, the Minsk Regional Executive Committee, the Belarusian Association of the Visually Impaired, the Minsk State College of Electronics, State Educational Institution «Molodechno Special General Education Boarding School», public associations.
During the press conference, the participants will discuss ongoing activities for people with visual impairments, the level of their involvement in society, the statistics of congenital and acquired blindness, the conditions created for children with visual impairments and other issues.
Creating conditions for the inclusion of people with visual disabilities in society makes an important contribution to the achievement by the Republic of Belarus of Sustainable Development Goals 10 and other SDGs.
Live broadcast of the press conference «Integration and Opportunities for Realizing the Potential of People with Visual Disabilities» is available at the link.
On November 1, 2022, a scientific and methodological seminar for teachers of additional education for children and youth «Methods and techniques for the formation of eco-friendly behavior in accordance with the requirements of education for sustainable development» was held in Minsk.
During the seminar, the participants discussed competencies in the field of sustainable development, the specifics of organizing the educational process in accordance with the principles of ESD, ways to create an eco-friendly environment in an educational institution, and also got acquainted with ten methodological techniques aimed at developing eco-friendly behavior, analyzed their methodological potential from the point of view of opportunities for the formation of competencies in the field of sustainable development.
The formation of environmentally friendly behavior of youth makes an important contribution to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
More information about the seminar can be found at the link.
From November 8 to November 11, 2022, Belarus will host the republican information and educational campaign «Belarus is an energy efficient country», timed to coincide with the International Energy Saving Day, which is celebrated annually on November 11. The slogan of the action is «In a united movement for the better».
The purpose of the campaign is to attract public attention to the rational use of energy resources, as well as to raise awareness of the population about possible ways and methods to improve the efficiency of their use. During the campaign, information and training online lectures and seminars on energy saving will be held in regional centers and Minsk.
The rational use of energy resources is one of the important measures to improve the well-being of citizens and contributes to the achievement by the Republic of Belarus of Sustainable Development Goals 7, 12, 13 and other SDGs.
More detailed information about the action «Belarus – an energy efficient country» can be found at the link.
In October 2021, the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus, OJSC «Belagroprombank» and the State Committee for Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus signed an Agreement on cooperation and interaction to develop and support the start-up movement and small innovative entrepreneurship. This Agreement provides for the formation of a start-up support network at the initial stages of the business life cycle, allowing start-ups at any stage of doing business to receive the necessary consulting, information, educational, financial assistance, as well as organizing joint start-up events for start-up entrepreneurs by network participants. It is planned to increase the share of such events for the regions and the city of Minsk for 2023 to 50–70 percent of the total number of planned start-up events. This will make it possible to use the potential of network members and discover the most promising start-up projects, ensuring their further support and development. At the moment, there are about 80 organizations in the start-up movement support network.
Support for the start-up movement makes an important contribution to the development of the country’s entrepreneurial activity, as well as to the achievement by the Republic of Belarus of Sustainable Development Goals 8, 9 and other SDGs.
More detailed information about the start-up movement support network in the Republic of Belarus can be found at the link.
The issue of the need to switch to biodegradable packaging in Belarus is becoming more acute. Every year, about 280 thousand tons of polymer waste is generated in the country. Thus, since 2020, an action plan has been implemented aimed at gradually reducing the use of polymer packaging with its replacement with environmentally friendly packaging. Among such activities is the creation of a national system for assessing biodegradable materials and packaging according to international rules and regulations. The first step on this path is the creation of a laboratory for testing biodegradable packaging at the Institute of Housing and Communal Services of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. This laboratory will be a specialized base for research on biodegradable components newly developed in the country, for the manufacture of packaging and other products, including those coming from abroad.
The transition to biodegradable compostable packaging will reduce the volume of polymer waste generation by 10-11%, which will contribute to the achievement by the Republic of Belarus of Sustainable Development Goals 12, 13 and other SDGs.
More detailed information about the laboratory can be found at the link.
On November 15, 2022, an online hackathon will be held on the development of the concept of glamping for the reserve «Osveisky». Students, young professionals, representatives of the tourism, architecture, construction, landscape design and related fields, who will work in teams of 5 people for 1 day to create an eco-tourism project in the Dou Island area, are invited to participate in the online hackathon. The total number of participants will be 35 people. Based on the best solution, a real project and a tourist route will be developed.
Registration for participation in the hackathon is available on the website.
The creation of the glamping site will become a tourist attraction on Du Island and will contribute to the development of ecotourism in the reserve «Osveisky», which will contribute to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
More information about the hackathon can be found at the link.
On November 1, 2022, a press conference was held on the issue of waste management, during which representatives of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the Belarusian Republican Union of Consumer Societies discussed the implementation of the state policy of the Republic of Belarus in the field of waste management and minimizing the use of plastic packaging.
Efficient waste management, including work to minimize the use of plastic packaging, contributes to the achievement by the Republic of Belarus of Sustainable Development Goals 12, 13 and other SDGs.
More information about the press conference can be found at the link.
On October 18, 2022, SDG 8 Youth Ambassador «Decent Work and Economic Growth» Vladislav Grechko held an open seminar on the topic «Economics – the key to sustainable development» for students of the State Educational Institution «Secondary School № 201 of Minsk».
During the seminar, students get acquainted with the concept of the SDGs, the philosophy of sustainable development and its economic aspect, the human development index, and using the example of SDG 8, they traced the entire mechanism for achieving the SDGs and tried to independently assess the pace of achieving SDG 8 in the Republic of Belarus.
The holding of the seminar «Economy – the key to sustainable development» contributes to the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Sustainable development of the regions is one of the priorities of the state policy of the Republic of Belarus. The main instruments are government programs and regulations, in which special attention is paid to ensuring favorable conditions for people to live and work.
With the aim of balanced development of all regions and reduction of inter-regional differentiation in the country, the Concept of the state policy of regional development was approved, which determines the incentives for further economic and social development of the territories. One of the important components of the concept is the village of the future. Settlements have been selected for its implementation, a set of measures has been developed on the ground to achieve social standards that make it possible to live comfortably in the countryside, measures are being taken to simplify the procedure for providing land resources, unused property and creating infrastructure by a management company that will subsequently manage resources on a commercial basis .
The implementation of the Concept of the State Policy for Regional Development makes an important contribution to the implementation of the Agenda for Sustainable Development for the period up to 2030.
More detailed information about regional development can be found at the link.
In accordance with the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus dated October 25, 2022 № 727 «On the automated information system for social support and rehabilitation of the disabled», a database will be formed to automate, comprehensively analyze and informatize the activities of state bodies and other organizations when working with people with disabilities social support and rehabilitation of people with disabilities.
Information for the formation and maintenance of the database will be collected electronically through a nationwide automated information system, the operator of which is the republican unitary enterprise «Center for Information Technologies of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Republic of Belarus». The introduction of the database into continuous operation is planned from September 1, 2023.
The formation of a database of social support and rehabilitation of people with disabilities will make an important contribution to the achievement by the Republic of Belarus of Sustainable Development Goals 3, 10, 16 and other SDGs.
More information about the database can be found at the link.
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