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Engaging Belarus in Science, Engineering, and Health: A Meeting

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The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in cooperation with the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, convened an inter-academy workshop on December 15-16, 2015, in Minsk, Belarus.Six American specialists in outreach activities of universities and more than 20 Belarusian scientists, educators, and government officials participated in the workshop. The goals of the workshop were to identify activities of mutual interest to the Academies and to identify technical areas for cooperation. Over the course of two days, speakers from the U.S. delegation described how research innovation and new technologies move from laboratories on university campuses to commercial applications.

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This project will initiate science, engineering, and technology engagement with the Belarus Academy of Sciences, carrying out scientist-to-scientist and engineer-to-engineer exchanges and small seminars in selected areas of mutual interest in a manner consistent with approaches of the Department of State as the overall political relationship between the United States and Belarus gradually improves. A rapporteur authored Meeting in Brief summarizing the workshop will be produced.

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Other, Federal

Private: Non Profit

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Glenn Schweitzer

Lead

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