The delivery of 120,000 notebooks intended for teachers and students has begun under the direction of the Klebelsberg Center, the Minister of Human Resources announced at a press conference in Budapest on Tuesday.
Miklós Kásler reminded: in the next four years, the government will buy 565,000 students' and 55,000 teachers' notebooks for the digitization of public education worth about HUF 200 billion. The goal is for students leaving public education to find their place in the modern conditions of life and to be able to further develop their IT skills and knowledge, said the minister. According to him, the devices are always given to the 5th and 9th grade students in the ascending system. He added: in the first phase, 55,000 of the notebooks purchased for HUF 34 billion will go to students and 55,000 to teachers, and 10,000 will be placed in schools.
The notebooks have arrived, the Klebelsberg Center will deliver them to the specified schools. The minister also said that interactive panels (displays) that increase children's creativity will be delivered to public education institutions to introduce robotics. In the background material prepared for the press conference, the Klebelsberg Center wrote: all state-run, church, ethnic self-governing and foundation schools can participate in the program, but students and teachers of vocational training institutions do not belong to the target group. So far, 473 institution maintainers have joined the project. Until December 31, 2025, 615,000 (of which 55,000 teachers and 560,000 students) personal use portable ICT devices (i.e. notebooks) will be distributed.
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In the project, for four years, in an ascending system, the parents of all 5th and 9th grade students can request a notebook for their child for personal use, it was explained. They added that until December 31, 2024, interactive panels, as well as tools that develop student creativity and problem-solving skills - such as programmable robots, programmable microcircuits, and drones - will be delivered to the public education institutions participating in the project.
According to the press release, between February 15 and March 31, 120,000 notebooks with a gross value of HUF 33.4 billion will be distributed to students in the 9th grade and teachers of public education institutions who have not yet received a portable ICT device for personal use. According to the information, the devices are delivered to 3,570 schools in 1,168 settlements.
This year, the distribution of devices will continue with the delivery of notebooks for the personal use of students in the 5th grade, they wrote in the background material of the Klebelsberg Center.
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