The delegation of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, headed by the Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Vladimir Stepanovich Karanik, is taking part in international scientific events held on October 26-28 in Xi'an (People's Republic of China). OIPI of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is represented on the international platform by Director General Dmitry Aleksandrovich Sakharuk.

The central event of the program is the 39th meeting of the Council of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS). The business and scientific program will be complemented by the Conference of Outstanding Scientists of the Global South and a series of thematic subforums. At the sub-forum "Artificial Intelligence and Computing Systems", Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Sakharuk gave a report on the scientific foundations and technologies of artificial intelligence for solving applied problems, presenting the development and scientific and technological competences of the OIPI of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

An important part of the visit was working meetings with Chinese partners, aimed at defining promising areas of joint research and development, exchange of scientific experience and development of long-term scientific and technical cooperation.

As part of the Conference of Outstanding Scientists of the Global South, a solemn ceremony of signing the Agreement on Cooperation between the United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Institute of Flexible Electronics of the North-Western Polytechnic University took place in Xi'an. The document was signed by Dmitriy Aleksandrovich Sakharuk, Director General of the National Institute of Scientific Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, and Professor Huang Wei, Director of the Institute of Flexible Electronics.

The agreement opens up new opportunities for the development of scientific and technical cooperation, exchange of experience, academic exchanges and implementation of joint research initiatives. Cooperation already acquires a practical dimension. The Laboratory of Biomedical Image Analysis of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Laboratory of Bioelectronics of the Chinese Institute are ready to start discussing a joint scientific project aimed at combining the research experience and scientific competences of the two teams.

The agreement opens up new perspectives for joint research and strengthening of scientific partnership between Belarus and China.