Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno invites you to participate in the competition for grants from the University's Innovative Development Fund for 2026

The competition organized by Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno is aimed at supporting research and innovation projects, as well as developing student technological entrepreneurship.

The competition for grants from the University's Innovation Development Fund for 2026 will be held in three stages. The first stage will last until May 8 and includes the submission of applications for the competition, along with the provision of a business project and its feasibility study. The second stage will run from May 11 to May 29, during which the submitted materials will be reviewed. The third stage will take place from June 1 to June 19, featuring the selection of projects and the announcement of results.

The competition provides funding for research projects with a duration of up to one calendar year, with a funding amount not exceeding 25,000 Belarusian rubles; startup projects, including those that have won or placed in open university student startup competitions; and projects for prototyping student developments, with a funding amount not exceeding 15,000 Belarusian rubles.

To participate in the competition, applicants must complete an application form and submit it to the Research Division of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno at 22 Ozeshko St., Room 403.

Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno invites you to participate in the competition for grants from the University's Innovative Development Fund for 2026

The competition organized by Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno is aimed at supporting research and innovation projects, as well as developing student technological entrepreneurship.

The competition for grants from the University's Innovation Development Fund for 2026 will be held in three stages. The first stage will last until May 8 and includes the submission of applications for the competition, along with the provision of a business project and its feasibility study. The second stage will run from May 11 to May 29, during which the submitted materials will be reviewed. The third stage will take place from June 1 to June 19, featuring the selection of projects and the announcement of results.

The competition provides funding for research projects with a duration of up to one calendar year, with a funding amount not exceeding 25,000 Belarusian rubles; startup projects, including those that have won or placed in open university student startup competitions; and projects for prototyping student developments, with a funding amount not exceeding 15,000 Belarusian rubles.

To participate in the competition, applicants must complete an application form and submit it to the Research Division of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno at 22 Ozeshko St., Room 403.

Civic-Patriotic Marathon "Time Chose Us" will be held at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

From May 4 to May 7, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno will become a center of patriotic education. Over these four days, the university will host the International Civic-Patriotic Marathon "Time Chose Us". Participants will include more than 20 educational institutions from the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation.

As part of the marathon, participants will compete in a variety of activities.

In the creative category "Youth. Initiative. Future," competitors will take part in the video contest "No One is Forgotten, Nothing is Forgotten," dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War, the "Creative Presentation of the Educational Institution" contest, and the creative competition "We Are the Heirs of Victory!"

To demonstrate their intellectual abilities, participants can join the "Connoisseurs of Native Land" category, which includes the "Erudite" intellectual game and a debate competition.

Participants will also be engaged in the category "Together – in Defense of Life, Morality, and Family Values," which focuses on family values. This category will feature the "Hot Bread" and "Making Decorative Wooden Products" contests.

In the military-applied category "Ready to Defend the Fatherland," competitors will face challenges such as "Marksman," "Thrower," "Fire Group," "Drone Operator," and "Tactical Shooting (Rifle)," as well as a military-sports relay race titled "Ready to Defend the Fatherland."

In addition to military-sports competitions, participants will also take part in purely athletic events. As part of the "Together – for a Healthy Lifestyle" event, they will compete in Gorodki, play darts, football, and volleyball, and participate in the sports relay "Healthy Me – Healthy Country."

Follow the competition on the website and social media pages of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.

Civic-Patriotic Marathon "Time Chose Us" will be held at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

From May 4 to May 7, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno will become a center of patriotic education. Over these four days, the university will host the International Civic-Patriotic Marathon "Time Chose Us". Participants will include more than 20 educational institutions from the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation.

As part of the marathon, participants will compete in a variety of activities.

In the creative category "Youth. Initiative. Future," competitors will take part in the video contest "No One is Forgotten, Nothing is Forgotten," dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War, the "Creative Presentation of the Educational Institution" contest, and the creative competition "We Are the Heirs of Victory!"

To demonstrate their intellectual abilities, participants can join the "Connoisseurs of Native Land" category, which includes the "Erudite" intellectual game and a debate competition.

Participants will also be engaged in the category "Together – in Defense of Life, Morality, and Family Values," which focuses on family values. This category will feature the "Hot Bread" and "Making Decorative Wooden Products" contests.

In the military-applied category "Ready to Defend the Fatherland," competitors will face challenges such as "Marksman," "Thrower," "Fire Group," "Drone Operator," and "Tactical Shooting (Rifle)," as well as a military-sports relay race titled "Ready to Defend the Fatherland."

In addition to military-sports competitions, participants will also take part in purely athletic events. As part of the "Together – for a Healthy Lifestyle" event, they will compete in Gorodki, play darts, football, and volleyball, and participate in the sports relay "Healthy Me – Healthy Country."

Follow the competition on the website and social media pages of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.

Students of YKSUG are invited to participate in the II Youth Forum of the Union State

From April 28 to 30, the II Youth Forum of the Union State of Belarus and Russia will be held in Minsk at the Belarusian State Economic University. Students from Belarusian and Russian universities are eligible to become participants.

The forum is organized by the "Russian House" public association in Minsk (Rossotrudnichestvo), in partnership with the Belarusian State Economic University, the A.V. Makarenko OECONOMICUS Economics Club of MGIMO, and the Eurasian Educational Institute of MGIMO.

As part of the forum, participants will have the opportunity to work in four sections: "Economic and Industrial Integration," "Youth Entrepreneurship," "Digital Economy and Innovation," and "Foreign Economic Activity and Competitiveness." The sections will be conducted in a team-based case-solving format, followed by presentations to experts. The best teams will be awarded commemorative prizes based on the forum's outcomes.

To participate in the competitive selection, applicants must complete an application form by April 8 and then undergo a brief online interview with the forum's organizing team.

Students of YKSUG are invited to participate in the II Youth Forum of the Union State

From April 28 to 30, the II Youth Forum of the Union State of Belarus and Russia will be held in Minsk at the Belarusian State Economic University. Students from Belarusian and Russian universities are eligible to become participants.

The forum is organized by the "Russian House" public association in Minsk (Rossotrudnichestvo), in partnership with the Belarusian State Economic University, the A.V. Makarenko OECONOMICUS Economics Club of MGIMO, and the Eurasian Educational Institute of MGIMO.

As part of the forum, participants will have the opportunity to work in four sections: "Economic and Industrial Integration," "Youth Entrepreneurship," "Digital Economy and Innovation," and "Foreign Economic Activity and Competitiveness." The sections will be conducted in a team-based case-solving format, followed by presentations to experts. The best teams will be awarded commemorative prizes based on the forum's outcomes.

To participate in the competitive selection, applicants must complete an application form by April 8 and then undergo a brief online interview with the forum's organizing team.

Marya Maretskaya and Darya Davydik, students of the Faculty of Law of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, became the winners of the international creative competition on the law of the BRICS countries

From March 5 to 12, the International Creative Presentation Competition "Law of the BRICS Countries: The Youth's Perspective" was held in the Russian city of Orekhovo-Zuyevo, at the Faculty of Law of the State University of Humanities and Technology.

The competition brought together secondary school students, college students, and university students. It was organized with the aim of engaging young people in the field of international legal relations and intercultural cooperation, as well as promoting issues related to BRICS in the sphere of law.

In the "Legal Comparative Studies" category, Marya Maretskaya, a 3rd-year student specializing in "Customs Affairs" at the Faculty of Law, was awarded first place, while Darya Davydik, a 4th-year student specializing in "Jurisprudence" at the Faculty of Law, took third place.

The academic supervisors – Irina Moiseeva, Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Forensic Science, and Natalia Gabets, Senior Lecturer at the Department of International Law – received letters of gratitude for their preparation of the contestants.

Rima Klyuchko, lecturer at the Yanka Kupala State University, took part in the discussion of legal acts on improving the legislation of the CSTO member states

On March 26, a meeting of the Expert Advisory Council under the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was held in St. Petersburg. Rima Klyuchko, Head of the Department of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, took part in the event.

During the meeting, the participants discussed two draft model legal acts. The first one concerned recommendations on improving the legislation of the CSTO member states in the field of the use of electronic warfare forces and assets by the contingents of one CSTO member state, which are part of the groups of Troops (Collective Forces) CSTO, on the territory of another CSTO member state. During the second session, the participants discussed recommendations on harmonizing the legislation of the CSTO member states to ensure internal stability and counteract technologies of external destructive influence aimed at destabilizing the socio-political situation.

During the discussion, the participants noted that due to high integration ties, the destabilization of the situation in one CSTO state could cause negative processes in other countries of the Organization. In this regard, the participants paid special attention to the improvement of criminal law protection measures. It was suggested that criminal laws should provide for liability for receiving foreign aid to carry out extremist activities or finance mass events, as well as for bribing citizens to participate in illegal actions.

The participation of a representative of YKSUG in such an event underlines the recognition of the university's expertise in the international arena.

International online school for future German language teachers, jointly with the Northern Arctic Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov, has completed its work

From February 19 to March 26, Anna Zmitrukevich, Iryna Mikhalevich, Natalia Yakutenok, teachers of the Department of Romano-Germanic Philology at YKSUG, and 3rd-year students participated in the third online school of the future German teacher, Innovative German Language Teaching Technologies.

The event was organized by the Department of Romano-Germanic Philology of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno under the leadership of Tatyana Skorobogataya, Head of the Department, and the Department of German-French Philology of the Northern Arctic Federal University named after M.V. Lomonosov under the leadership of Maria Sakalova, Head of the Department.

During the month, Russian and Belarusian teachers introduced students to the use of innovative technologies in teaching German. The innovative technologies presented during the seminars facilitate language learning, increase motivation, form and develop the competence of all participants, activate the exchange of experience and knowledge. During the classes, students got acquainted with popular AI services, online platforms and technological tools, learned how to compose assignments for literary texts, and learned about the positive culture of correcting mistakes.

Upon graduation from the online school, the participants received certificates confirming their studies at the international online school of the future German teacher "Innovative German Language Teaching Technologies".

Novruz Bayram was celebrated at Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno

Traditionally, every year the peoples of the East celebrate the arrival of spring and the beginning of a new life cycle – Novruz. Today, on March 27, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno also joined the celebration of this "warm" holiday by holding the IX Open Festival "Novruz Bayram".

The celebration started in the morning. An interactive platform "Oriental Bazaar" was held on the first floor of the main building. The foreign students prepared for everyone the wisdom of the East, national treats, as well as the presentation "Novruz of different years", in which they told the history of the festival.

Then the Kaleidoscope of Creativity exhibition was waiting for the participants. After bright welcoming creative performances, Iryna Kiturka, Rector of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, addressed all those present.

– This is the ninth time we have held this holiday, and we are very happy and thank you for bringing your family traditions to our country. And we honestly say that we really want you to take a piece of Belarus in your heart when you leave. And thanks to you, a piece of your countries will forever remain with us and at our university," Iryna Kiturka noted.

After the welcoming words, the Kupala residents immediately plunged into the atmosphere of the holiday. The participants had the opportunity to taste the national dishes of Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan – traditional pilaf with meat, dolma, baklava, samsa, manti, chak-chak, pastries, as well as traditional Chinese noodles, shanezhki and pancakes with honey.

Then the students from Turkmenistan demonstrated their national dance "Bilezik" to all those present.

A colorful part of the fair was an exhibition of costumes of Turkmenistan and a presentation of the country's wedding tradition. Through bright fabrics and traditional embroidery, international students immersed the participants of the celebration even more into their culture and introduced them to the main rituals and rituals of traditional marriage, and even vividly demonstrated them.

After tasting delicious foreign treats and exploring the culture, a dance flash mob awaited the guests of the holiday. At the Universum gallery, everyone could indulge in the incendiary rhythms of music and dance Turkmen and Uzbek dances.

The culmination of the celebration was a large-scale concert. Addressing the participants of the holiday again, Iryna Kiturka emphasized that Novruz truly united the hearts of Kupala residents.

– I am so glad and so proud that there are many international students at our university, and your culture enriches us. Your opportunity to study in our country, and our opportunity to touch your traditions, your holiday, is such a mutual enrichment that money cannot buy. It can only be when it's all from the heart," Iryna Kiturka noted.

Iryna Kiturka also wished everyone a pleasant concert and made sure once again that students at Kupala University identify, unleash and realize their potential. The concert filled everyone present with unforgettable emotions. National dances, songs and incendiary modern performances inflamed the hearts of the audience, filling them with the spirit of festive unity.

Novruz Bayram at YKSUG has once again become a celebration of unity not only of the peoples of the East, but also of all representatives of other countries studying at the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, showing that friendship of peoples knows no borders at our Alma mater.