Minsk to host first Eurasian forum of young scientists in 2015

The first Eurasian forum of young scientists will take place in Minsk in 2015, Andrei Ivanets, Chairman of the Council of Young Scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), said at the opening of the international research conference Youth in Science 2014, BelTA has learned.

“In September 2014 young scientists met in Moscow to discuss the hosting of the first Eurasian forum of young scientists in Minsk in 2015,” Andrei Ivanets said.

This large-scale forum will be a landmark event as the year 2015 was declared the Year of Youth in Belarus. “We would like to hold this forum on a large scale. Apart from the conference with reports, we are planning to organize an exhibition of joint innovative projects of young scientists from the Eurasian space which may attract potential investors,” the scientist noted.

The conference Youth in Science 2015 will be held too. It is an annual event. “This is one of the oldest conferences in the post-Soviet space. It is held for the 11th time and has become a trademark of the Academy of Sciences and the NASB Council of Young Scientists,” Andrei Ivanets stressed. In his words, the number of countries partaking in the conference is increasing every year. Bulgaria and Nigeria joined the forum in 2014.

The 11th international research conference Youth in Science takes place in Minsk on 18-21 November. Partaking in the forum are over 400 young scientists, postgraduate students, university and school students from Belarus, young researchers from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Poland, Baltic states. The program of the forum includes 340 reports. Young scientists discuss the most important scientific issues, such as promising avenues of sustainable development in agribusiness, preservation of biological diversity, ecology, genetics, biotechnologies, humanitarian sciences and arts.