Young scientists encouraged to team up, implement joint projects

MINSK, 20 September (BelTA) – Young scientists of different countries should team up and should implement joint projects. Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov made the statement during the international scientific conference of young scientists Youth in Science 2023, BelTA has learned.

Belarus pays close attention to the promotion of youth science and interaction of young scientists from different countries. “The Academy of Sciences offers all kinds of opportunities to young people: scientific conferences are organized as well as science festivals, contests, including 100 Young Talents of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. We try to support young scientists, help them, and contribute to their development since future belongs to them. And it is their job to work hard and purposefully and defend dissertations,” Vladimir Gusakov said.

He also pointed out that the Youth in Science 2023 conference is an international one. “It is a basic conference for the Council of Young Scientists of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS). The IAAS includes scientific organizations from a number of countries: CIS states, China, Vietnam, and Mongolia. Young scientists should endeavor to team up, to implement joint projects. They can count on our complete support. We never reject requests of young people. We try to come up with acceptable, optimal solutions to any requests and petitions. But you have to primarily count on yourself, on your own labor, determination, and the desire to become a scientist,” the chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus stressed.

The purpose of the 20th international scientific conference of young scientists Youth in Science is to stimulate R&D, innovation potential and present projects and R&D products of young scientists in addition to sharing the best practices and opinions about a broad range of matters. The conference has been organized by the Council of Young Scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Taking part in the conference are young scientists, postgraduate students, aspirants, master's students, and university students of Belarus, who work in such fields of science as agrarian sciences, biological sciences, medical sciences, humanities, physics and technology, physics and mathematics, chemistry, and Earth sciences. Young researchers from Russia, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan have also arrived. As many as 13 workshops in different fields of science will work at premises of the Central Scientific Library named after Yakub Kolas of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus on 20-21 September. The educational forum Path to Science will take place as part of the conference on 22 September.

Apart from that, a session of the Council of Young Scientists of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS) will take place in Minsk on 20 September.