Between Trees – Primary School, Kačerginė

- Location Kačerginė, Kaunas County, Lithuania
- Type Educational
- Size 2 541 m²
- Year 2020–2022
- Status Completed
- Images Norbert Tukaj
- Project lead Edvinas Kolakauskas, Viktorija Blažienė
- Authors Simonas Norkus, Gabrielė Liucija Ošikaitė, Viktorija Blažienė, Edvinas Kolakauskas, Julius Lapinskas
Kacergine school consists of two volumes – the new one and the old renovated one. The connection between the two buildings is elevated therefore allowing people to easily cross the territory and reach the forest behind. The chosen finish materials were inspired by the surrounding architectural context.
Kacergine school together with schools in Zapyskis and Mastaiciai are unique because of their innovative financing principle – PPP. Public–private partnerships (PPP) are legally established types of cooperation between the state or municipal authority and a private body that enable the state or municipal authority to transfer its activity to a private body, while a private body invests in this activity and the assets necessary to perform this activity and receives for this a legally established remuneration. Kačerginė, Zapyskis and Mastaiciai schools were among the first PPP projects in Lithuania.
