MINSK, 28 August (BelTA) – Belarus and Serbia intend to sign an executive program on cooperation in science and technology for 2020-2021, Aleksandr Shumilin, Chairman of the State Science and Technology Committee of Belarus, said as he met with Serbia’s Minister of Education, Science and Technological Development Mladen Sarcevic, BelTA has learned.
The countries have held a joint contest of sci-tech projects for 2020-2021 and have selected for financing 19 projects in agriculture, food industry, energy industry, nanomaterials, environmental protection, and optoelectronics. “According to the results of the national expert assessment in Belarus, all the projects have been approved. At the upcoming session of the joint Belarus-Serbia commission on sci-tech cooperation the countries could sign a final protocol, an executive program on cooperation in science and technology for 2020-2021, and a list of the sci-tech projects approved for financing,” Aleksandr Shumilin said.
Since 2014, Belarusian and Serbian scientists have implemented 23 joint sci-tech projects, including projects in the areas of agrarian and biological sciences, physico-mathematical and chemical sciences, and information technology.
Belarus and Serbia develop their sci-tech and innovation cooperation as part of the intergovernmental agreement between Belarus and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia of 6 March 1996.