Seminar on current issues of development and implementation of programs and projects of the Union State (June 26, 2024, Polotsk)

On June 26, a seminar on current issues of development and implementation of programs and projects of the Union State was held in Polotsk as part of the XI Forum of Regions of Belarus and Russia.

The event was organized by the State Committee on Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus and the state institution "Belarusian Institute of System Analysis and Information Support of the Scientific and Technical Sphere".

The Chairman of the State Committee for Science and Technology, Sergei Shlychkov, and the Head of the Department of Economics and Industry Programs of the Standing Committee of the Union State, Svetlana Ivanova, addressed the participants of the event with welcoming words.

Deputy Chairperson of the State Committee on Science and Technology Tatyana Stolyarova in her report paid attention to the role of the Union State programs in the formation of a single scientific and technological space, as well as proposals for improving the mechanisms for their formation.

The speakers focused on the interaction between Russia and Belarus in the field of science and innovation policy, on the state and prospects of scientific and technological development of the Union State, as well as on the distribution of rights to intellectual property in the implementation of programs and projects of the Union State.

The participants of the event got acquainted with the practical experience of developing and implementing such Union State programs as "Technology-SG" (2016-2020 implementation years), "DNA Identification" (2017-2021), "Spinal Systems" (2017-2020), "Component-F" (2022-2026), as well as the importance of this type of program in organizing import substitution in the field of microelectronic element and component base.

Seminar program

More than 100 representatives of scientific organizations of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation took part in the seminar: representatives of 19 major universities, 13 scientific institutes, ministries and departments, as well as industrial organizations of the Republic of Belarus.