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Belarus, World Bank to develop cooperation in cluster management

MINSK, 20 January (BelTA) – Belarus’ Deputy Economy Minister Yuri Chebotar and a group of World Bank experts reviewed the results of the EU-Belarus Program for Private Sector Development, BelTA learned from the press service of the Economy Ministry.

The meeting was attended by representatives of the consulting company Cluster Competitiveness Group, Inc. (Spain), which is the executor of the component “Initiatives to improve competitiveness”. The experts discussed the results of the second phase of training of the target group under the World Bank's cluster management education program. The group consisted of more than 40 people, comprising representatives of the authorities responsible for cluster policies at the national, regional and local levels and also senior officials of the professional associations (unions of legal entities) and technoparks. Both sides gave a thumbs up to the training process and highlighted the engagement of the target training group.

Consideration was given to the results of the seminar-presentation hosted by the WB Office in Belarus on the work on the above-mentioned joint program with the participation of a wide range of representatives of government bodies and the academic community. The main purpose of the seminar was to inform and establish contacts to actively engage the parties interested in implementing cluster initiatives in the four priority sectors mapped out by the Economy Ministry (information and communication technologies, medicine, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and green economy, instrumentation and robotics). These industries boast the greatest organizational and innovative potential for systemic integration of science, education and business based on a cluster development model.

The parties noted the high importance of the project for Belarus and confirmed their intentions to continue fruitful cooperation.

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