The new law On Preschool Education, which came into force on 1 January 2025, introduced several new types of preschool institutions. These include mini-garden, family and mobile kindergarten. Anastasiya Konovalova, Deputy Minister of Education and Science, said this in an interview with lb.ua.
A mobile kindergarten is a specially equipped bus that has all the necessary materials for preschoolers' education and active leisure. It regularly visits settlements where there are no kindergartens, stopping in safe places near shelters.
One such bus is operating in the de-occupied territory. This bus was provided to Ukraine by Finland to show how this format should work. It is on the basis of this bus that the Ministry of Education and Science is currently developing state sanitary standards for mobile kindergartens. But they will not become a mass phenomenon, says Anastasiya Konovalova, Deputy Minister of Education and Science. ‘The main forms of preschool education will remain nurseries and kindergartens. And so will pre-school units of the nursery and kindergarten types.
‘Mobile kindergartens are the last straw, and we write about this in the regulations on this type of preschool education: if you fail at all, then make a mobile kindergarten until you are able to open at least a preschool unit, for example, at a library. A mobile kindergarten is a way out where there are no educators because, say, everyone has left. And then mobile teams can work,’ the official explained.