On May 9, on Europe Day, in the session hall of the Lutsk City Executive Committee, the results of the first in Ukraine "European Olympiad" among School European Clubs from the cities of Lutsk, Rivne, Kivertsi, Kovel, Horokhiv, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, and Turiisk were summarized. Let us recall that the creation of School European Clubs took place within the framework of the "Building Europe Together" Program, initiated by the Center of Public Youth Organizations of Volyn "Our Cause" and the Lublin Foundation "New Stake." The purpose of the School European Clubs' activity is to promote the development of contacts between the youth of Europe and Ukraine under new geopolitical conditions. The forms of work of the School European Clubs include establishing contacts with EU schools, organizing trips for our students to European schools, and jointly writing programs for funding by international financial structures. Despite the short time since the creation of the SECs, they have already managed to make themselves known. In particular, at the fair of public organizations of Volyn and the Lublin Voivodeship, which took place on April 19-20 at the Volyn Regional Music and Drama Theater. And the "European Olympiad" among the SECs of the region consisted of several areas: · Testing among SEC participants on the topic of geography, economy, and folk traditions of the member countries of the European Union; · Presentation of decorative art works and student works on European themes. Each Club could present up to 7 works. In addition, in the presence of journalists, a mini-competition was held for assembling a map of the EU from puzzles. In a solemn atmosphere in the session hall, the awarding of the winners took place. This mission was carried out by the Patrons of the "Building Europe Together" Program: the Consul General of the Republic of Poland in Lutsk, Wojciech Gałązka, and People's Deputy of Ukraine Volodymyr Bondar. And on behalf of the Lutsk City Mayor — the First Deputy Mayor, Secretary of the City Council Sviatoslav Kravchuk. The awards to the winners were distributed as follows: 1st place according to the testing results was taken by a student of the Kovel City Gymnasium, SEC "Diskovery" — Mykola Kotsurskyi, 2nd place — a student of the Educational Complex Secondary School No. 26 of the city of Lutsk, SEC "Evryka" Andrii Sasiuk, 2nd place — a student of Gymnasium No. 21, SEC "Eurokrok" Inna Novykova, 3rd place — a student of Gymnasium No. 21 of the city of Lutsk, SEC "Eurokrok," Dmytro Olenchenko, 3rd place — a student of the Rivne Ukrainian Gymnasium Viktor Troian, SEC "Dyvosvit." The testing results also provided for awards for the coordinators of the SECs whose students best demonstrated their knowledge. 1st place — Fedoniuk Tetiana — Lutsk Secondary School No. 26 — SEC "Evryka," 2nd place — Iryna Kotiuk — city of Kovel — SEC "Diskovery," 3rd place — coordinator Tetiana Morenchuk — Lutsk Gymnasium No. 21, SEC "Eurokrok." The awards for the School European Clubs for the best knowledge in the tests were distributed as follows: the best knowledge, and therefore 1st place, was taken by SEC "Evryka" — Educational Complex Secondary School No. 26 of the city of Lutsk. 2nd place — SEC "Eurokrok," Lutsk Gymnasium No. 21. 3rd place — SEC of the Rivne Ukrainian Gymnasium. For the fine arts competition (works on European themes), 1st place was taken by SEC "Evryka" — students S. Brud, Ya. Mazurkevych — Secondary School No. 26 of the city of Lutsk for the computer presentation of the EU, 2nd place — Volodymyr-Volynskyi Gymnasium No. 4 — students Salabai and Polozhyvtseva for the fine art composition "Friendship Instead of Borders," 2nd place — Educational Complex "Secondary School-Gymnasium" of the city of Horokhiv for the napkin "Unity of Hearts," 3rd place — Secondary School No. 26 of the city of Lutsk — students Salivonchyk, Chupryna, Verbych for the composition "Europe of Flowers," 3rd place — SEC "Europa" of Turiisk Secondary School No. 2 — student Liia Panasiuk for a drawing on a European theme. Among the coordinators for the fine arts competition, 1st place was received by Voloshchuk Valentyna from Horokhiv Gymnasium No. 2 (SEC "Planeta"), 2nd place — Riabchun Olha — Volodymyr-Volynskyi Gymnasium No. 4 — SEC "AVIAS," 3rd place — Fedoniuk Tetiana — Educational Complex Secondary School No. 26 of the city of Lutsk — SEC "Evryka." Among the School European Clubs for the fine arts competition, 1st place was taken by SEC "Avias" of the Volodymyr-Volynskyi City Gymnasium No. 4, 2nd place — SEC "Planeta" of Horokhiv Gymnasium No. 4, and 3rd — SEC "Mriia" — Lutsk Gymnasium No. 4. In the overall standings in all competitions among schools, 1st place was taken by the Educational Complex Secondary School No. 26 of the city of Lutsk, 2nd place — Horokhiv Gymnasium No. 4, 3rd place — Lutsk Gymnasium No. 21, 3rd place — Kivertsi Secondary School No. 4 — SEC "EuroMolod." The prizes provided by the organizers of the European Olympiad for the winners were quite valuable — two music centers, youth backpacks, radios, and souvenirs with European symbols. And the School European Clubs whose students demonstrated the greatest awareness of Europe received, among other things, modern school chalkboards. So all students and teachers were satisfied with their participation and awards.