A conference on fostering environmental culture in schools is taking place in Irkutsk, with teachers and students from Irkutsk and Korea. Participants have discussed the educational model Ecology in the system of culture and visited the unique ISU Botanical Garden, the only one in Irkutsk Region and the Baikal region listed in the International Register of Botanical Gardens of the World. Ahead are section meetings, research presentations, and a webinar with an elementary education specialist.

The conference includes both teachers and schoolchildren from Irkutsk and Korea. The conference discusses issues of fostering environmental culture in schools.
On the first day of the conference, February 7, a round table discussion, “Implementation of the educational model ‘Ecology in the System of Culture,’” was held. Then the conference participants visited the Botanical Garden of Irkutsk State University. This is the only Botanical Garden in the Irkutsk Region and throughout the Baikal region included in the International Register of Botanical Gardens of the World. As a museum of living nature under the open sky, the Botanical Garden serves as an important educational tool for schoolchildren in Irkutsk.
The main stage of the conference will take place on January 8. In the first half of the day (from 11:00 to 13:00 at School No. 35, Pervomaisky microdistrict, 57), sectional work will be held (adults and children), where presentations, reports, and presentations of research and project works by teachers and students on a wide range of environmental issues will be heard.
In the second half of the day, at 15:00, a webinar “Educational Model ‘Ecology in the System of Culture’” will be held at the Center for Information, Methodological, and Psychological Support for the Activities of Educational Institutions (26 Lenin St.), with the participation of Victoria Samkova, Head of the Laboratory of Primary Education at the Institute for the Development of Education of the Russian Academy of Education, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences.
Based on materials from the press service of the administration of the city of Irkutsk