The authors of the winning projects, experts and budget managers of the Odesa City Council jointly trained teachers and applicants of our university on July 21 - August 28 successfully participate in the Public Budget of our city. The platform "Socially Active Citizen" was presented, a description of the platform's tools and how the government reacts to interaction with the public. All students of the project developed the skills acquired during the training by preparing and processing the finished project.

 The project "Odesa is my home. Let's save the environment for the sake of life" was prepared and processed during the whole time of the School with the involvement (mentoring) of representatives of the municipality and experts in order to further present it on the platform. Online voting for projects - October 28 - November 16, 2020. https://citizen.odessa.ua/projects/

(Author of the project: Associate Professor of Political Science and Law Poluyaktova O.V. Co-authors: applicants of South Ukrainian National Pedagogical University named after K.D. Ushynsky - Klyuyev Georgii (specialty 052 "Political Science" of the Department of Political Science and Law) and Tsarychanska Kateryna (specialty 073 " Management "of the Department of Educational Management and Public Administration).

The purpose of the project is:

- raising the level of environmental education of young people,

- formation of a conscious and responsible community that will protect the environment of the hometown,

- search and identification of creative and innovative environmental ideas, the implementation of which in the future will benefit the city.