Associate Professor of the Department of Technology, Physiology and Food Hygiene of the Faculty of Biology and Ecology of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno Aksana Paulava took part in the Belarusian-Pakistan Forum of Young Scientists

The forum was organized on the basis of the Institute of Information Technologies with the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Pakistan Academy of Sciences in Islamabad.

From the Belarusian side young scientists from the United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Physical Organic Chemistry of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Research Center for Materials Science, as well as the leading higher educational institutions of the country took a part in the event. Among the participants there is an associate professor of the Department of Technology, Physiology and Hygiene of the Food of the Faculty of Biology and Ecology of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno Aksana Paulava. According to the representative of our university, the forum made it possible to get acquainted with the latest achievements in the field of scientific research, exchange knowledge and experience in the field of training highly qualified personnel, discuss promising areas of cooperation in the field of nanobiotechnology, as well as academic mobility and postgraduate education programs.

- Within the framework of the forum, we learned about the innovative achievements of researchers of the Institute of Information Technologies in the field of computer technology, electrical engineering, biological sciences and physics, - Aksana Paulava shared. - In the section of biological sciences and physics I presented the report "The process of obtaining chitosan from micellar fungi of the species Aspergillus", and then presented the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, told colleagues about the university's academic activity and its scientific potential, invited them to cooperate.

One of the main venues of the forum was the XV International Conference "Information Technology Boundaries", during which the Belarusian delegates got acquainted with innovative developments in the field of information technologies and visited the exhibition of student scientific developments.

Significant was the visit of Belarusian delegates to the Institute of Information Technology, the leading institution of higher education in Pakistan.

- During the visit to the Institute, a meeting was held with the rector and heads of structural units, as well as a tour of the laboratories of the departments of computer science, electrical engineering, biological sciences, nanotechnology and physics. During the meeting with the representatives of the Faculty of Biological Sciences, it was possible to discuss the prospects for cooperation between our faculties in the field of biotechnology, " - Aksana Paulava said.

The main result of the Belarusian-Pakistan forum was an agreement between scientists of the two countries on holding the Second Belarusian-Pakistani agricultural forum. It is planned that the event will be held during the international exhibition "Belagro-2018" in June this year.