NASB, BRSM to join Eurasian Innovations project in Belarus

The National Academy of Sciences and the BRSM Youth Union are ready to join the Eurasian Innovations project which envisages the construction of a new hi-tech park in Belarus. The statement was made by representatives of NASB and BRSM at the meeting of the Council of Directors of the International Fund for Cooperation and Partnership of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea (BSCSIF) on 25 October, BelTA has learned.

First Deputy Chairman of the NASB Presidium Sergei Chizhik took note of the sci-tech park BelBioGrad being developed in Belarus. According to the scientist, two innovation sites should unite personnel and technical resources. This will expedite the shifting from scientific research to the production of high-value-added products.

BSCSIF and the NASB are in talks to sign an agreement on strategic partnership and cooperation between the new technological park and the National Academy of Sciences.

The fund also showed in the BRSM youth project, 100 Ideas for Belarus, and plans to allocate bonuses to the authors of the best research. First Secretary of the Central Committee of the BRSM Youth Union Igor Buzovsky, for his part, confirmed the readiness of the youth union to join the BSCSIF innovation projects in Belarus.
During the Minsk meeting the BSCSIF Board of Directors discussed the ways to enhance the performance of the fund, establish cooperation with international organizations and other issues.

The International Fund for Cooperation and Partnership of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea (BSCSIF) is a non-governmental and non-for-profit organization founded in Bucharest in 2009. Among its Board of Directors members are politicians, diplomats, scientists from Azerbaijan, Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Romania, Sao Tome and Principe, Serbia, Turkey, Ukraine, Croatia, Montenegro, Switzerland, and the Republic of South Africa.