A large-scale program to transform educational institutions for children has been launched in Ukraine this year. It is aimed at creating new, modern, child-oriented schools. The transformation is being realized thanks to the support of Belgium, as well as cooperation with several businesses, including SCM of Rinat Akhmetov.
The project was approved at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Berlin, where €4.8 million in Belgian funding was announced. This is the first phase of a larger program with a total funding of €21 million. It is clear that this initiative will help to significantly improve both the infrastructure of schools and create conditions for the all-round development of children. Read more information here: https://www.dailysquib.co.uk/business/56492-transformation-of-ukraines-schools-begins-with-belgian-support.html.
A new look at how schools should be
This will be a completely new approach to school space. The initiators insist that schools should not resemble a hospital, but a place where important ideas and dreams are born. In this way, Ukraine seeks to abandon outdated models associated with the Soviet legacy and move to a modern concept. After all, the conditions under which the educational process takes place and children are formed as individuals are very important.
A school in one of the villages of Kyiv region will be the first to undergo architectural transformation within the framework of the pilot. Illustrations of what the school will look like after the reconstruction have already been shown. With a large square in front of the school, a courtyard for outdoor recreation, an amphitheater for education, and large assembly halls. Five institutions are being modernized as part of the pilot.
What else will change in schools after the transformation:
- barrier-free regardless of student or teacher mobility;
- pupils and teachers can draw on the walls of corridors, change lighting, classroom temperature and rearrange furniture to suit their needs;
- children can nap in comfortable privacy zones, create their own projects, grow plants in the courtyard or build robots in the workshops;
- safety – quality rounded shelters with no dark nooks and crannies.
Schools will have modern areas for creativity and project activities: workshops for working with technology, greenhouses for growing plants, laboratories, etc.
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