diff --git a/src/templates/template-vision-segmentation/main.py b/src/templates/template-vision-segmentation/main.py
index 9ad19858..7133ad28 100644
--- a/src/templates/template-vision-segmentation/main.py
+++ b/src/templates/template-vision-segmentation/main.py
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 from functools import partial
 from pprint import pformat
-from typing import Any
+from typing import Any, cast
 
 import ignite.distributed as idist
 import yaml
 from data import denormalize, download_datasets, setup_data
+from ignite.contrib.handlers import LRScheduler
 from ignite.engine import Events
 from ignite.metrics import ConfusionMatrix, IoU, mIoU
 from ignite.utils import manual_seed
 from torch import nn, optim
-from torch.optim.lr_scheduler import LambdaLR
+from torch.optim.lr_scheduler import LambdaLR, _LRScheduler
 from torch.utils.data.distributed import DistributedSampler
 from torchvision.models.segmentation import deeplabv3_resnet101
 from trainers import setup_evaluator, setup_trainer
@@ -80,6 +81,16 @@ def set_epoch():
         ):
             dataloader_train.sampler.set_epoch(trainer.state.epoch - 1)
 
+    if isinstance(lr_scheduler, _LRScheduler):
+        trainer.add_event_handler(
+            Events.ITERATION_COMPLETED,
+            lambda engine: cast(_LRScheduler, lr_scheduler).step(),
+        )
+    elif isinstance(lr_scheduler, LRScheduler):
+        trainer.add_event_handler(Events.ITERATION_COMPLETED, lr_scheduler)
+    else:
+        trainer.add_event_handler(Events.ITERATION_STARTED, lr_scheduler)
+
     # setup ignite handlers
     #::: if (it.save_training || it.save_evaluation || it.patience || it.terminate_on_nan || it.timer || it.limit_sec) { :::#