Belarusian delegation at the 5th forum of scientists of the CIS member states
Dushanbe, October 23. Belarusian delegation partakes in the 5th Forum of scientists of the CIS member states. Among the forum members are heads and leading scientists of academies, of big scientific and research centers and learning institutions of the commonwealth. Belarusian education is represented by Council of Young Scientists under the aegis of the Ministry of Education, as well as A.N. Sevchenko Institute of Applied Physical Problems, Grodno State Medical University and Belarusian State Agricultural Academy.
CIS secretary general sent greetings to the participants. Sergei Lebedev stressed on the importance and relevance of the forum’s goals, such as the activation and development of scientific and technical cooperation between the Commonwealth countries, assistance in expanding the scientific space of the CIS, analysis of the state and prospects for the development of fundamental science, ways of implementing promising innovative scientific research in the digital age, as well as the popularization of science and scientific activity among the youth of the CIS countries, the formation of a system of international mobility of scientists and young specialists in the professional community of the Commonwealth states.
The program is full of events. Participants have already visited Tajik Academy of Science and learned about the work of its institutions. For the first time, a meeting of the Council of Young Scientists under the Council for Cooperation in Fundamental Science of the CIS countries will be held. A series of round tables and dialogue platforms are planned, within the framework of which the participants will discuss the main trends in the development of fundamental sciences, current problems of modern technical science and key areas of social and humanitarian knowledge.
Following the end of the Forum, it is planned to outline in its Declaration the most relevant areas of development of the scientific sphere of the Commonwealth of Independent States to expand international scientific and technical cooperation and integrate science of the Commonwealth states into the world scientific space, as well as to develop proposals to increase the role of science in the economy of the CIS member states.