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Following Nature's Trail Eco-Workshops Kick Off in Kstovo: Schoolchildren Present Their Ideas for Future Eco-Trails

11 december 2025

Array ( [ID] => 531 [TIMESTAMP_X] => 2021-03-11 15:07:42 [IBLOCK_ID] => 5 [NAME] => Текст новости EN [ACTIVE] => Y [SORT] => 500 [CODE] => DESCRIPTION_EN [DEFAULT_VALUE] => Array ( [TEXT] => [TYPE] => HTML ) [PROPERTY_TYPE] => S [ROW_COUNT] => 1 [COL_COUNT] => 30 [LIST_TYPE] => L [MULTIPLE] => N [XML_ID] => [FILE_TYPE] => [MULTIPLE_CNT] => 5 [TMP_ID] => [LINK_IBLOCK_ID] => 0 [WITH_DESCRIPTION] => N [SEARCHABLE] => N [FILTRABLE] => N [IS_REQUIRED] => N [VERSION] => 2 [USER_TYPE] => HTML [USER_TYPE_SETTINGS] => Array ( [height] => 200 ) [HINT] => [VALUE] => Array ( [TEXT] => <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">December 10 saw Kstovo’s Local History Museum hold a hands-on eco-workshop for the <i>Following Nature's Trail</i> project implemented by the all-Russian organization <i>Urban Renovations</i> with support from SIBUR's <i>Formula for Good Deeds</i> social investment program seeking to promote environmental education, foster a culture of environmental stewardship, and develop a state-of-the-art recreational infrastructure for tourists.</span> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">The workshop was organized for seventh-grade students from Kstovo’s Schools No. 5 and No. 2 who plunged into the workshop’s activities straight away:</span> </p> <p style="background: white;"> </p> <ul> <li> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">Students from School No. 5 charted collage-based route maps for the eco-trail by siting constituent elements of its future infrastructure and planning out comfortable rest stops. The teams then presented their concepts with each of them being creative and bold in its own way.</span> </p> </li> <li> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">The next stage involved holding a workshop for seventh-graders from School No. 2. The class participants came up with the conceptual content for the eco-trail’s route by determining the kinds of stopovers the route will need, what type of messages about the region's nature they would be communicating to visitors, and how they are going to help make a leisurely activity both educational and safe.</span> </p> </li> </ul> <p style="background: white;"> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">The event ended with a presentation of the eco-trail’s concept to local residents, introducing them to the project's initial results and encouraging them to come up with proposals of their own that would be taken into consideration in the process of laying out the route in 2025.</span> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">The eco-workshops offered local schoolchildren, residents, teachers, and activists an opportunity to feel as co-authors of the future eco-trail as it is the involvement of local communities that will help make the project alive, relevant, and truly useful for the area.</span> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">Svetlana Morina, Deputy Principal of School No. 5:</span> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <i><span style="color: #575757;">“We should definitely get our schoolchildren engaged in laying out such eco-trails. Since their parents might not have enough time for this, there has got to be someone out there who will be doing the talking. I wholeheartedly support the idea of building eco-trails. Although many local residents like to take strolls in our forested tract of land, our verdant city still needs more routes for organized hikes. If such eco-trails are created, it will do our city a lot of good, even if only done for introductory purposes.”</span></i> </p> <p style="background: white;"> <span style="color: #575757;">The <i>Following Nature's Trail</i> project continues to rally the residents of Nizhegorodskaya Oblast around a common goal of nurturing an eco-culture and making natural territories more welcoming, accessible, and interesting for all.</span> </p> <p> <i><span style="color: #575757;">Background:<br> </span></i><i><span style="color: #575757;">The </span></i><span style="color: #575757;">Formula for Good Deeds<i>, SIBUR's social investment program, was launched on February 1, 2016 in all key cities where the company operates. It is being implemented across seven focus areas covering all essential social sector domains: urban development, education and science, sports and healthy living, environmental protection, culture, inclusion, and volunteering. Further information about the program is available on the program’s website at </i></span><a href="http://www.formula-hd.ru/"><i><span style="color: blue;">www.formula-hd.ru</span></i></a><i><span style="color: #575757;">.</span></i> </p> [TYPE] => HTML ) [DESCRIPTION] => [~VALUE] => Array ( [TEXT] =>

December 10 saw Kstovo’s Local History Museum hold a hands-on eco-workshop for the Following Nature's Trail project implemented by the all-Russian organization Urban Renovations with support from SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program seeking to promote environmental education, foster a culture of environmental stewardship, and develop a state-of-the-art recreational infrastructure for tourists.

The workshop was organized for seventh-grade students from Kstovo’s Schools No. 5 and No. 2 who plunged into the workshop’s activities straight away:

  • Students from School No. 5 charted collage-based route maps for the eco-trail by siting constituent elements of its future infrastructure and planning out comfortable rest stops. The teams then presented their concepts with each of them being creative and bold in its own way.

  • The next stage involved holding a workshop for seventh-graders from School No. 2. The class participants came up with the conceptual content for the eco-trail’s route by determining the kinds of stopovers the route will need, what type of messages about the region's nature they would be communicating to visitors, and how they are going to help make a leisurely activity both educational and safe.

The event ended with a presentation of the eco-trail’s concept to local residents, introducing them to the project's initial results and encouraging them to come up with proposals of their own that would be taken into consideration in the process of laying out the route in 2025.

The eco-workshops offered local schoolchildren, residents, teachers, and activists an opportunity to feel as co-authors of the future eco-trail as it is the involvement of local communities that will help make the project alive, relevant, and truly useful for the area.

Svetlana Morina, Deputy Principal of School No. 5:

“We should definitely get our schoolchildren engaged in laying out such eco-trails. Since their parents might not have enough time for this, there has got to be someone out there who will be doing the talking. I wholeheartedly support the idea of building eco-trails. Although many local residents like to take strolls in our forested tract of land, our verdant city still needs more routes for organized hikes. If such eco-trails are created, it will do our city a lot of good, even if only done for introductory purposes.”

The Following Nature's Trail project continues to rally the residents of Nizhegorodskaya Oblast around a common goal of nurturing an eco-culture and making natural territories more welcoming, accessible, and interesting for all.

Background:
The Formula for Good Deeds, SIBUR's social investment program, was launched on February 1, 2016 in all key cities where the company operates. It is being implemented across seven focus areas covering all essential social sector domains: urban development, education and science, sports and healthy living, environmental protection, culture, inclusion, and volunteering. Further information about the program is available on the program’s website at www.formula-hd.ru.

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December 10 saw Kstovo’s Local History Museum hold a hands-on eco-workshop for the Following Nature's Trail project implemented by the all-Russian organization Urban Renovations with support from SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program seeking to promote environmental education, foster a culture of environmental stewardship, and develop a state-of-the-art recreational infrastructure for tourists.

The workshop was organized for seventh-grade students from Kstovo’s Schools No. 5 and No. 2 who plunged into the workshop’s activities straight away:

  • Students from School No. 5 charted collage-based route maps for the eco-trail by siting constituent elements of its future infrastructure and planning out comfortable rest stops. The teams then presented their concepts with each of them being creative and bold in its own way.

  • The next stage involved holding a workshop for seventh-graders from School No. 2. The class participants came up with the conceptual content for the eco-trail’s route by determining the kinds of stopovers the route will need, what type of messages about the region's nature they would be communicating to visitors, and how they are going to help make a leisurely activity both educational and safe.

The event ended with a presentation of the eco-trail’s concept to local residents, introducing them to the project's initial results and encouraging them to come up with proposals of their own that would be taken into consideration in the process of laying out the route in 2025.

The eco-workshops offered local schoolchildren, residents, teachers, and activists an opportunity to feel as co-authors of the future eco-trail as it is the involvement of local communities that will help make the project alive, relevant, and truly useful for the area.

Svetlana Morina, Deputy Principal of School No. 5:

“We should definitely get our schoolchildren engaged in laying out such eco-trails. Since their parents might not have enough time for this, there has got to be someone out there who will be doing the talking. I wholeheartedly support the idea of building eco-trails. Although many local residents like to take strolls in our forested tract of land, our verdant city still needs more routes for organized hikes. If such eco-trails are created, it will do our city a lot of good, even if only done for introductory purposes.”

The Following Nature's Trail project continues to rally the residents of Nizhegorodskaya Oblast around a common goal of nurturing an eco-culture and making natural territories more welcoming, accessible, and interesting for all.

Background:
The Formula for Good Deeds, SIBUR's social investment program, was launched on February 1, 2016 in all key cities where the company operates. It is being implemented across seven focus areas covering all essential social sector domains: urban development, education and science, sports and healthy living, environmental protection, culture, inclusion, and volunteering. Further information about the program is available on the program’s website at www.formula-hd.ru.

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December 10 saw Kstovo’s Local History Museum hold a hands-on eco-workshop for the Following Nature's Trail project implemented by the all-Russian organization Urban Renovations with support from SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program seeking to promote environmental education, foster a culture of environmental stewardship, and develop a state-of-the-art recreational infrastructure for tourists.

The workshop was organized for seventh-grade students from Kstovo’s Schools No. 5 and No. 2 who plunged into the workshop’s activities straight away:

  • Students from School No. 5 charted collage-based route maps for the eco-trail by siting constituent elements of its future infrastructure and planning out comfortable rest stops. The teams then presented their concepts with each of them being creative and bold in its own way.

  • The next stage involved holding a workshop for seventh-graders from School No. 2. The class participants came up with the conceptual content for the eco-trail’s route by determining the kinds of stopovers the route will need, what type of messages about the region's nature they would be communicating to visitors, and how they are going to help make a leisurely activity both educational and safe.

The event ended with a presentation of the eco-trail’s concept to local residents, introducing them to the project's initial results and encouraging them to come up with proposals of their own that would be taken into consideration in the process of laying out the route in 2025.

The eco-workshops offered local schoolchildren, residents, teachers, and activists an opportunity to feel as co-authors of the future eco-trail as it is the involvement of local communities that will help make the project alive, relevant, and truly useful for the area.

Svetlana Morina, Deputy Principal of School No. 5:

“We should definitely get our schoolchildren engaged in laying out such eco-trails. Since their parents might not have enough time for this, there has got to be someone out there who will be doing the talking. I wholeheartedly support the idea of building eco-trails. Although many local residents like to take strolls in our forested tract of land, our verdant city still needs more routes for organized hikes. If such eco-trails are created, it will do our city a lot of good, even if only done for introductory purposes.”

The Following Nature's Trail project continues to rally the residents of Nizhegorodskaya Oblast around a common goal of nurturing an eco-culture and making natural territories more welcoming, accessible, and interesting for all.

Background:
The Formula for Good Deeds, SIBUR's social investment program, was launched on February 1, 2016 in all key cities where the company operates. It is being implemented across seven focus areas covering all essential social sector domains: urban development, education and science, sports and healthy living, environmental protection, culture, inclusion, and volunteering. Further information about the program is available on the program’s website at www.formula-hd.ru.