On July 27, 2021, the delegation of the National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” under leadership and the President of the Research Center, Mikhail Kovalchuk paid visit. The event was attended by a State Secretary of the Union State Dmitry Mezentsev, the Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov, the leadership of the National Academy of sciences of Belarus and subordinate organizations.

The guests got acquainted with the exposition of the permanent exhibition of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus “Achievements of domestic science for production”. Negotiations were held on the development of scientific and technical cooperation. During the meeting, a roadmap for cooperation for cooperation for the period up to 2030 was signed. The document was signed by the Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Vladimir Gusakov and the President of the SIC Mikhail Kovalchuk.
The cooperation roadmap includes more than 40 events, including a nuclear energy, genetic research, nuclear medicine, the development of unmanned aerial vehicles, and other areas.
As Vladimir Gusakov emphasized, “Cooperation with the Kurchatov Institute is of great interest to us. It is not only nuclear research, nuclear energy. The Institute deals with a number of problems (materials scince, genomic technologies, medicine, genetics in agriculture) and it is constantly expanding its research topics. “Today we signed a roadmap that opens up broder horizons for major joint projects.” Mikhail Kovalchuk drew attention to the fact that now very projects are being developed related to and you research infrastructure based on powerful installations - megascience. “Such a program has now been launched in Russia, the infrastructure will have to become the most perfect in the world within 5-7 years. In this regard, it is very important, taking into account the potential of Belarus, to recreate a single research space within the Union State. Signed a roadmap with the head of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, “he said. According to him, it was proposed to open a branch of the Kurchatov Institute on the basis of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus to enhance integration and cooperation. Also among the proposals is the opening of a branch of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute in Belarus. “In addition, we agreed that a draft intergovernmental agreement on Belarus’s joining the international center based on their PIK reactor in Gatchina near St. Petersburg will be prepared”, added the head of the Kurchatov Institute Research Center.

The National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute” is one of the leading scientific centers in the world, an interdisciplinary national laboratory. In the 20th century, he played a key role in ensuring security and the development of the most important strategic areas, including the development and creation of nuclear weapons, nuclear submarine and surface fleets, and nuclear energy. Today, the Kurchatov Institute has a unique research and technology called base, carries out to research and development in a wide range of areas of modern science and technology: from energy, convergent NBICS technologies and elementary particle physics to high-tech medicine and information technology.