The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine is working on the organization of centers for the national multi-subject test in the countries of the European Union and the UK.
“Now we are working on organizing the work of national multi-subject test centers abroad. Minister Serhiy Shkarlet made a relevant request to his colleagues in European countries,” the ministry’s press service said in a statement.
It is noted there is already a preliminary agreement on two centers in Germany, two in Italy and six in Poland, since most Ukrainian children are in this country.
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Eight centers for growing seedlings with a closed root system will be built in Ukraine in 2022 using the technologies of the Swedish company BCC, according to the website of the State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine.
“During this year, we plan to build eight seed breeding factories, which will significantly increase the capacity for growing planting material. This will allow us to successfully implement the Green Country presidential program (President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky) and plant one billion trees in 3 years,” the agency said.
According to the plans for the construction of forest planting complexes published by the department, plants for growing seedlings will be located in Volyn, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Sumy and Chernihiv regions.
According to the agency, this year it is also planned to expand forest planting complexes in Ternopil and Khmelnytsky regions. In addition, in 2021, seed breeding plants were put into operation in Lviv and Donetsk regions.
As reported, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in June 2021 signed a decree on the implementation of the Green Country project in Ukraine to increase the number of forests in Ukraine. The goal of the project is to increase the area of forests in Ukraine by one million hectares in 10 years. It is also planned to plant one billion trees in Ukraine in the next three years.
Ukrposhta expects to sign an agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) in October to raise a EUR 100 million loan for the construction of new sorting centers.
“I really hope that on October 1 we will sign the first EUR 100 million agreement in the history of Ukrposhta for the construction of a new logistics network with the EBRD and the EIB and, in fact, we will start building a new Ukrposhta,” its CEO Igor Smelyansky said on the air of KSE Business Transformation Week “Transformational Leaders. Public Sector.”
He also recalled that Ukrposhta built the last sorting center in 1980 and noted that it is very difficult to compete with the market players such as Nova Poshta using such outdated equipment.
At the same time, according to Smelyansky, despite the quarantine, the company continues to grow in the volume of services provided.
As reported, in the spring, Ukrposhta hoped to attract EUR 100 million for the construction of new sorting centers by summer. The company later clarified to the Interfax-Ukraine agency the funds raised are planned to be used for the design and construction of three or four terminals, as well as for the automation of about 30 depots.
