A student's card can turn into an analogue of a free school travel ticket. This information was announced by Oleksandr Reshetnyak, scientific secretary of the "Center for Identification Systems" during the "Management of Information Resources" conference.

Reshetnyak explained to those present the specifics of the functioning of electronic documents in the field of education. In particular, student and student ID cards. In 2007, the Belarusian State University started implementing plastic student cards, all information on which is stored in a special microchip.

Then, similar tickets were produced by the Center for Identification Systems for students of all universities of the republic. Upon completion of this project, experts proposed the idea of creating a more functional document that would allow providing services to students throughout the republic. This is how the student's electronic card was born, which has already been successfully tested in 12 Minsk schools.

Integrated with a bank payment card, the tool allows you to have lunch in the school canteen, return books to the library, pay in city stores, and visit theaters and museums with a discount.

Currently, the Center for Identification Systems is working with the "Minsktrans" enterprise to turn the student card into a free travel ticket for schoolchildren. Such cards may soon appear in other cities of Belarus.

Note that there is a similar tool in Ukraine student (pupil) card, which has already been implemented in educational institutions of the country and performs the function of both a pass to an educational institution, obtaining benefits for travel in transport, and a bank card.