The EDB Fund for Digital Initiatives supports an online tour project and invites to an interactive journey in Belarus
Moscow, 29 December 2021. The Eurasian Development Bank’s (EDB) Fund for Digital Initiatives supported the Discover Eurasia project by JoinPRO, an international community of travellers. The first online tours will take place from 8 to 29 January in the Brest Region of Belarus. The project is expected to cover other EAEU+ countries later.
JoinPRO is a community of more than 300 professional guides who offer interactive travel experiences in 65 countries worldwide using a dedicated online platform and mobile app.
In the Brest Region, the community’s best guides will give free online tours showing the region’s landmarks, telling their history and legends, and sharing their emotions and experiences. The first stage of the Discover Eurasia project includes ten online events over 22 days. These are eight online tours and two national cooking workshops.
To join a tour, please register on www.joinpro.ru
Tours in the Brest Region:
- 8 January, 17:00 (Moscow time) – The Brest Arbat
- 9 January, 11:00 (Moscow time) – A Visit to Belarusian Father Christmas
- 12 January, 12:00 (Moscow time) —The Bezdezhsky Fartushok Folk Art Museum
- 20 January, 14:00 (Moscow time) — The 19th-Century Puslovsky Palace
- 27 January, 13:00 (Moscow time) — The Ruzha Khutor Resort
- 22 January, 12:00 (Moscow time) — The Nine-Century Old Town of Pinsk
- 18 January, 10:00 (Moscow time) — Cooking with Tradition: a cooking master class from the U Ozera Tavern
- 25 January, 14:00 (Moscow time) — a master class at the Polski Majontak farmstead
- 15 January, 11:00 (Moscow time) – Bezdezh National Dishes
- 29 January, 12:00 (Moscow time) — Belarus’s first snail farm
- Additional Information:
The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) is an international financial institution promoting integration and development in its member countries. For 15 years, the Bank has worked to strengthen and broaden economic ties and foster comprehensive development in its member countries – Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, and Tajikistan. The EDB's charter capital totals US $7 billion. The EDB’s portfolio mainly consists of projects with an integration effect in the areas of transport infrastructure, digitalisation, green energy, agriculture, industry, and mechanical engineering. The Bank adheres to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and ESG principles in its operations.
The Eurasian Development Bank’s Fund for Digital Initiatives was established by the Bank’s Council on 30 June 2020. The Fund’s objective is to assist EDB member states in creating digital transformation tools and practices by integrating their information resources and participating in the development and financing of projects, including those implemented under the Eurasian Economic Union’s Digital Agenda 2025. The Fund’s priorities in Tajikistan will be to ensure the country’s energy security by developing small hydro and solar energy, reconstruct the power grid, ensure food security by developing agricultural processing, diversify manufacturing, develop entrepreneurship by setting up manufacturing enterprises and supporting small and medium-sized businesses, promote digital transformation by taking part in the development of digital solutions aimed at strengthening integration ties, and support public and corporate digital projects.
The EDB Media Centre:
Azima Sapargaliyeva +7 (777) 750 00 08 (Almaty)
Sergey Gorbachev +7 (916) 727 22 00 (Moscow)