Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology and Belarus National Academy of Sciences promote scientific and technological cooperation in the innovation period
Overview of the bilateral discussion
Speaking at the opening of the seminar, Prof. Vladimir Karanik, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, warmly welcomed Prof. Chau Van Minh and the VAST delegation at the NASB headquarters. Prof. Karanik recognized that in recent times, the two Academies have effectively implemented joint research projects in the Cooperation Roadmap for the period 2023-2025 with the increasing participation of young cadres. With many impressive changes in Vietnam in recent times, the NASB Chairman said that this development needs a scientific and technological foundation to promote and believes that in the coming time, the two Vietnamese Academies will continue to develop cooperation in the direction of promoting the contents that have been effectively implemented such as basic research and expanding to research and technology development - the task that NASB is being entrusted by the Prime Minister of Belarus.
VAST delegation at the bilateral seminar
Prof. Dr. Chau Van Minh, President of VAST, respectfully congratulated Prof. Vladimir Karanik, who was recently appointed by the President of Belarus as Chairman of the NASB Presidium, with the role of a "central factor" to strongly develop NASB, closely linking science and technology with the needs of economic and social development. Prof. Dr. Chau Van Minh also emphasized the similarities between the two Academies, when NASB reformed to innovate, and VAST also restructured in March 2025, focusing resources on priority areas, innovating management methods, promoting the activities of the Science and Technology Development Fund to support the effective implementation of scientific tasks, international cooperation and encourage innovation, contributing to the implementation of recent Central Resolutions on science and technology development, strengthening international cooperation and integration.
In his speech, the President of VAST reviewed more than 50 years of scientific cooperation between Vietnam and Belarus, especially since the 2007 Agreement with the Belarus Foundation for Basic Research. The two sides have implemented over 100 cooperation tasks, most of which were directly between VAST and NASB, achieving high efficiency with an average of 1.5 international publications per task. The Presidents of the two Academies and the attending delegates noted specific cooperation proposals: in addition to traditional fields such as materials science, semiconductor materials, lasers, optics, biodiversity conservation, water treatment, the two sides agreed to expand to new fields such as space technology and Earth observation, biomedicine and nuclear medicine, unmanned aircraft, etc. In addition, VAST also recognized that NASB has many technologies with high transferability, so VAST can be the focal point to bring NASB technology in particular and Belarus in general to Vietnamese businesses and localities. To effectively implement the cooperation content, the Science and Technology Funds of the two sides play a great role. Based on the operational orientation of the VAST Science and Technology Development Fund, Prof. Dr. Le Truong Giang, Vice President of VAST, Chairman of the Fund Management Board, proposed that the Belarusian Basic Research Fund support and share fund management experience, sponsor the development of international research groups, international laboratories, interdisciplinary research and potential applications. NASB also agreed that cooperation should aim at innovative and practical methods, linking research with application and businesses. To create a legal basis for cooperation, the VAST Science and Technology Development Fund signed 03 Cooperation Agreements including: Cooperation Agreement with the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus on developing joint research groups; Agreement on cooperation with the Belarusian Foundation for Basic Research on exchanging experience in fund management and financing of joint activities and Agreement on cooperation with the Enterprise "Scientific and Production Center of Multifunctional Unmanned Aerial Systems" under NASB.
Signing of MoU on cooperation between VAST Science and Technology Development Fund and Belarus NCCB Fund
During their stay in Belarus, the VAST delegation also visited and worked with the Enterprise "Center for Science and Production of Multifunctional Unmanned Aerial Systems" and discussed research and development of unmanned aerial vehicles; worked with the NASB Institute of Applied Physics on cooperation in the field of semiconductors. The discussion contents and plans for cooperation and technology transfer were also strongly supported and affirmed by the Vietnamese Ambassador to Belarus, Nguyen Van Trung, in the context of the Vietnam - Belarus relationship having just been upgraded to a strategic partnership, the effective cooperation between the two Academies in the past time and the future cooperation orientation will make practical contributions to the development of science - technology and the recently upgraded strategic partnership between the two countries.
Visiting the research and development enterprise of drones of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Visit the Institute of Applied Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
Working with the Vietnamese Embassy in Belarus
The leaders of the two academies affirmed that, on the basis of the friendly relationship and strategic partnership between the two countries, with many innovations in organizational structure and development orientation in recent times, scientific cooperation between the two National Academies of Sciences of Vietnam and Belarus will enter a new, more comprehensive and effective phase, promising many new successes.
Translated by Quoc Khanh
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