MINISTRY OF EDUCATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

The Ministry of Education will develop the interaction between the children's technology park and the real sector of the economy. This was announced by the Minister of Education Andrey Ivanets during a meeting of the Supervisory Board of the National Children's Technology Park, which was held in the park and was dedicated to the results of this year's admissions campaign.

"The admissions campaign is over. It has been the second one, within the framework of which the guys who had a recommendation from the Supervisory Board of the Children's Technology Park had the opportunity to enter our universities without passing exams. This year, 130 people were recommended. Of course these should not just be gifted guys who enter our universities following a special path, because first of all, these should be guys who see their professional direction, i.e. a specific enterprise where they will subsequently work, a specific university where they will continue to carry out their scientific work they began in the children's technology park," said Andrey Ivanets.

He noted that enterprises are interested in providing targeted referrals (finance) for university education to graduates of the technopark. "We will develop this interaction between the technopark and the real sector of the economy. Last year, we made adjustments to the presentation and defense of projects for issuing recommendations to graduates of the technopark from the supervisory board. Now this is carried out in the format of an open exhibition, open defense, when each member of the supervisory board can communicate with a specific candidate for a recommendation. We see that we should invite to this process not only members of the supervisory board, representatives of relevant ministries who are assigned to the relevant laboratories of the technopark, but also representatives of specific enterprises of the real sector of the economy so that managers could select future employees. In general, the established mechanism for issuing recommendations by the supervisory board will not change. It has proven its effectiveness," the head of the educational department emphasized.

The agenda of the supervisory board also included the issue of a special educational trajectory for graduates of the children's technopark as part of their education at universities. "We understand that these children should not just study at the university, they should continue to do research work. Therefore, we are looking at how a separate educational route is being built in our universities and the continuation of scientific research in the relevant departments and faculties by those children who come and enter universities after graduation from the technopark. Another relevant issue is cooperation roadmaps. We have signed seven roadmaps for the development of cooperation with industry ministries. Last academic year, more than 40 enterprises were visited by technopark students. Enterprises order for those research works they need and our students do a research. This academic year, more than 80 projects will be implemented at the orders of enterprises of the real sector of the economy. In fact, we are talking about the fact that this year we will almost completely switch to work specifically at the orders of the real sector of the economy. Thus, we will give the opportunity not only to find a research topic and engage in scientific work under the guidance of our academic, university, and industry scientists, but also to obtain a practically relevant result. This will become a good basis for both the training of gifted children in an enterprise financed education and for their subsequent employment," Andrey Ivanets informed.