Promoting Vietnam - Belarus science and technology cooperation in the new period

According to a VNA correspondent in Europe, within the framework of attending the 38th Session of the Council of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS) in Belarus, on September 17, Professor, Academician Chau Van Minh, President of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) and Professor Vladimir Karanik, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB), co-chaired a bilateral discussion and discussed directions to promote scientific and technological cooperation between the two sides in the new period.

Báo Tin Tức•19/09/2025

Warmly welcoming Prof. Chau Van Minh and the VAST delegation at the NASB headquarters, Prof. Vladimir Karanik acknowledged that, in recent times, the two Academies have effectively implemented joint research projects in the Cooperation Roadmap for the period 2023-2025 and especially the increasing participation of young cadres. Expressing his impression of Vietnam's development achievements, the NASB President 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 promote the contents of effective cooperation such as basic research, while expanding to research and technology development - a task that NASB is entrusted by the Prime Minister of Belarus.

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. Prof. Dr. Chau Van Minh also emphasized the similarities between the two Academies, as NASB reformed for innovation, while VAST also restructured in March 2025, focusing resources on priority areas, innovating governance 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, enhancing international cooperation and integration.

The President of VAST reviewed more than 50 years of scientific cooperation between Vietnam and Belarus, especially since the 2007 Agreement with the Belarusian 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, and unmanned aircraft.

VAST recognizes 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 enterprises and localities. Prof. Le Truong Giang, Vice President of VAST, has proposed that the Belarus Foundation for Basic Research support and share fund management experience, sponsor the development of international research groups, international laboratories, interdisciplinary research with potential applications.

To create a legal basis for cooperation, VAST Science and Technology Development Fund has signed 3 Cooperation Agreements including: Cooperation Agreement with the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus on developing a joint research group; Cooperation Agreement with the Belarus Foundation for Basic Research on exchanging experience in fund management and funding joint activities and Cooperation Agreement with the Enterprise "Center for science and production of multifunctional unmanned aerial systems" under NASB.

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, effective cooperation between the two Academies in recent times and future cooperation orientations will make practical contributions to the development of science - technology and the strategic partnership between the two countries.

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 Academies in particular and between Vietnam and Belarus in general, will enter a new, more comprehensive and effective phase, promising many new successes.

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/thoi-su/thuc-day-hop-tac-khoa-hoc-cong-nghe-viet-nam-belarus-trong-giai-doan-moi-20250919061634156.htm