On April 11, 2024, the information seminar on the Contest of Pilot Initiatives on SDGs was held in Grodno.
The Contest of Pilot Initiatives on the SDGs is held with the support of the United Nations Development Program within the framework of the Joint Project «Support to the Efforts of the Republic of Belarus in Nationalization and Localization of SDGs» with financial support from the Russian Federation.
Detailed information about the seminar in Grodno is available at the link.
In the 2023/2024 academic year, a unique project for financial support for children «Student Card», implemented by OJSC «Savings Bank «Belarusbank», was launched in schools in Belarus.
A student card is a product for schoolchildren that combines the functions of a payment card and a document confirming student status. The card helps educational institutions create a safe and productive educational environment by using it as a pass, a library card or an authorization key in a computer lab. In addition, with a Student Card, schoolchildren can travel free on public transport during school hours. This right has already been implemented in the city of Minsk, Vitebsk, Minsk, Gomel and Grodno regions, as well as in certain regions of the Brest region (Ivanovo, Stolin, Lyakhovichi and Drogichinsky districts).
To date, 109 cities, 36 urban-type settlements, as well as 115 rural settlements in Belarus have joined the project. The project has already covered 800 educational institutions, where over 505 thousand children study.
The implementation of the project «Student Card» helps students master financial literacy skills and contributes to the achievement by the Republic of Belarus of Sustainable Development Goals 4, 9, 11 and other SDGs.
More information about the project «Student Card» can be found at the link.
On April 5, 2024, the winners of the republican competition for the best information support of the state preventive project «Healthy Cities and Towns» were awarded. The organizers of the competition were the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus, the State Institution «Republican Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health» and the World Health Organization in the Republic of Belarus.
The competition is held annually with the aim of identifying settlements in the country that best promote and popularize the state preventive project «Healthy Cities and Towns» among their citizens.
In total, 84 administrative-territorial units (settlements) from all regions of Belarus and the city of Minsk took part in the competition. 18 participants became winners of the competition – 3 in each of the 6 nominations of the competition. The Mozyr District Executive Committee was chosen as the winner in the nomination «Best information support of the Project among settlements with a population of ≥ 60,000 people». The Ivatsevichi District Executive Committee – in the nomination «Best information support of the Project among settlements with a population of 10,001 to 60,000 people». In four other nominations, the winners were Sennensky, Dribinsky, Gomel (Ulukovye agro-town) and Kalinkovichsky (Dudichie agro-town) district executive committees.
The full list of competition winners can be found at the link.
Holding a republican competition for the best information support for the state preventive project «Healthy Cities and Towns» contributes to the popularization of the Project, which makes an important contribution to the achievement of medical and demographic sustainability of the territories, the formation of a healthy lifestyle among the population, as well as the achievement by the Republic of Belarus of Sustainable Development Goal 3 and others SDGs.
On April 4, 2024, a meeting of the joint board of the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus and the State Committee for Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus was held in Minsk.
During the meeting, issues of ensuring the alignment of 10-year industry development strategies with the goals of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development for the period until 2035 and the project initiatives of the Comprehensive Forecast of Scientific and Technological Progress for the period until 2045 were considered.
To date, some work has already been done to develop industry development strategies for 10 years: together with interested parties, more than 25 technological maps have been prepared – ready-made algorithms for the formation of production chains. It is planned that the most significant projects will be implemented in petrochemistry, mechanical engineering, pharmaceuticals, woodworking, and production of building materials. The next stage is the analysis of technological maps for their connection with the Comprehensive Forecast of Scientific and Technological Progress until 2045.
In addition, the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus and the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Belarus adopted a joint order dated March 13, 2024 № 25/88 «On the organization of interaction». The document is aimed at synchronizing management decisions on the technological development of industries, strengthening the role of science and innovation in economic development, developing methodological recommendations for the formation of industry development strategies and the formation of conceptual approaches to the development of the draft Technological Security Strategy of the Republic of Belarus for the period until 2030.
More detailed information about the meeting can be found at the link.
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