On February 17, 2017, the III Championship of the Republic of Bashkortostan in the social interactive game «ZhEKA» was held at the Bashkir Institute of Social Technologies (branch) of the Public Association «Academy of Labor and Social Relations» (Ufa). It was developed by the state corporation – the Foundation for Assistance to Housing and Communal Services Reformation.
The aim of the game is to teach in simple and accessible ways the basics of energy saving and the basics of managing an apartment building, to increase the legal and budgetary literacy of citizens in the sphere of housing and communal services. Participants learn to take care of their apartment, home, district and, in general, of the city – in a word, even those having a traditionally paternalistic consciousness begin to feel themselves the masters of not only their own apartment, but the entire infrastructure. It is no accident that the authors decipher the concept of housing and communal services as «living as a boss». Therefore, the goal of the organizers of the Championship – the Ministry of Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Bashkortostan and the Bashkir Institute of Social Technologies – is to involve as many citizens of the Republic as possible. And we succeeded. The following figures show the following. In 2015, more than 3000 people (students of grades 5-11, students of colleges and universities, as well as citizens of elderly age) took part in the Championship, in 2016 there were almost a thousand more. In 2017, the number of participants increased to 4,936. This means that almost 5,000 citizens have learned to save resources, and, consequently, the family budget, the budget of the city, republics, and the money saved can be spent on landscaping, healthcare, education and so on.
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