Factories instead of museums. With the support of the Development Bank, a guidebook of the Union State has appeared

Photo by the Development Bank May 5, MINSK . The Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies and the Russian Agency for Strategic Initiatives, with the support of the Development Bank, have created a joint tourist guide - "Two Countries, Thousands of Factories". The goals of the project were explained to a BELTA correspondent by the bank's press service.

"Museum tours are certainly educational and multifaceted, but today real adventures begin outside the gates of enterprises and production centers. Industrial tourism has transformed from a trendy hashtag into a living artery connecting business and society. Consumers look "under the hood" of their favorite brands, foreign partners are looking for the secrets of technological breakthroughs, and schoolchildren and students are looking for career inspiration," the bank's specialists shared their opinion.

In RUSSIA, industrial tourism has long been used as a powerful career guidance tool: from the 6th grade, schoolchildren try on professions from engineer to designer. Within the framework of the Union State, the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies and the Russian Agency for Strategic Initiatives have created a joint tourist guide. The project was supported by the Development Bank, whose investments , as the press service added, have transformed hundreds of enterprises into modern and high-tech production facilities.  

The first copies of the guide were presented to the heads of the two states, who highly praised the results of their joint work. The authors are convinced that the new edition is not just a book, but a ticket to a world where innovative production facilities, including those created with the support of the Development Bank, are shattering stereotypes about "boring industry" with facts. Each page of the guide leads the reader through the labyrinths of workshops, where the most complex industrial processes are presented in an accessible and informative manner: from agriculture to high-tech industry and even the conquest of space.

"Today's factories are not smoke and noise, but laboratories of the future. Industry has ceased to be a "closed club". Now it is a dialogue platform where a schoolchild or student can ask a question to the CEO, a tourist can track the path of MILK "from the cow to the store shelf", and a businessman can find ideas for a startup or industrial cooperation," the Development Bank explained. - Why does Tesla open its doors to tourists, and local cheese dairies - to guests? The answer is simple: trust is built on transparency. When you see how a product is made, you believe in it. And if after the tour a student wants to work here, this is a jackpot for the economy. What's next? Joint Belarusian-Russian industrial tours will become a bridge between generations, countries and dreams. After all, as the popular wisdom says: "It is better to see a factory once than to hear about the GDP a hundred times." Are you ready for a tour where there are machines instead of pictures, and engineers instead of guides?"

The tourist guide "Two countries, thousands of factories" can be found in city libraries and educational institutions; it is possible to study the production features of enterprises using the online version of the publication.