Students of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno took part in the II International Youth Environmental Forum.

Senior Lecturer of the Department of Ecology Elena Samusik and 2nd and 3rd year students of the Faculty of Biology and Ecology Ksenia Zhdanova and Polina Sobolevskaya took part in the II International Youth Environmental Forum on May 15-19. The forum brought together participants from 14 universities in Russia and Belarus.

The purpose of this forum was to further develop and integrate educational and cultural cooperation between universities of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation, strengthen fraternal ties between Belarus and Russia, education, historical, patriotic and environmental education of students within the framework of the "Year of Peace and Creation" declared by the President of the Republic of Belarus in 2023 and the "Decade of Science and technologies", stimulating the continuity of professional experience and knowledge by young people, methods for solving urgent problems in the field of environmental protection, rational use of natural resources.

Forestry Minister Alexander Kulik took part in the opening ceremony of the II International Youth Environmental Forum. The main part of the events of this forum was held on the basis of the branch of BSTU "Negorelsky educational and experimental forestry".

The students took an active part in the round table on promising areas of educational, scientific and technical cooperation between the youth of Belarus and Russia, and also presented their startups in the field of ecology and environmental protection. We got acquainted with modern methods of landscape design as a means of optimizing the unfavorable ecological environment of a large city, listened to a number of lectures and practical classes on the topics: "Eco-oriented activity of forestry enterprises of Belarus" (with visits to objects: a forest equipment park, a woodworking shop, a mini CHPP on wood chips); "Ecological and environmental educational activities of universities" (on the basis of the "House of Nature" Negorelsky educational and experimental forestry of BSTU); "Creation of objects of ecological tourism on the example of the project "Ecological educational trail "Tales of the Negorelsky forest". A master class was held on the topic "Modern IT technologies and remote sensing methods using unmanned aerial vehicles, space satellites to assess the state of forests and natural objects".