15.08.2010 [News]

Priority areas of scientific and technical activities for 2011-2015 approved in Belarus

Following the approval of priority areas of basic and applied research in Belarus for 2011-2015, the priority areas of scientific and technical activities for the next 5-year period have been approved by the Edict of the President of Belarus № 378 of 22 July 2010.

The list of priorities includes:

  • Energy and energy saving,
  • Agricultural industry technologies and productions,
  • Industrial and construction technologies and productions,
  • Medicine, medical equipment and technologies, pharmaceuticals,
  • Chemical technologies, nano- and biotechnologies,
  • Information and communication, aviation and space technologies,
  • New materials,
  • Effective nature management, resource saving and protection from emergency,
  • Defense and national security.

Comparing to the current priorities of S&T activities (2007-2010), the new list is longer and includes such new lines, as construction technologies, aviation and space, protection from emergency, defense and national security. It doesn’t mean that the R&D, e.g., in space or construction were not carried out in the country before. It just means that the role for the national economy and society of such sectors as construction, space, defense, etc. and accordingly the role of research activities for the needs of these sectors have increased considerably and continue to grow. Together with the “old” priorities these new ones will define the economic and social development of Belarus till 2015.

Also, a structure of the priorities is approved following to the scheme: “a priority area of S&T activities – macrotechnologies – critical technologies”.

The full text of the Edict is available in Russian at http://www.pravo.by/webnpa/text.asp?RN=P31000378.

Source: Olga Meerovskaya, BelISA