From March 10 to 14, 2025, a delegation of the NAS of Belarus headed by Academician-Secretary of the Department of Physical and Technical Sciences Sergei Shcherbakov visited Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (SB RAS) in Novosibirsk.
On March 11, 2025, a Cooperation Agreement was signed between the NAS of Belarus and the Shared Use Center "Siberian Ring Photon Source" of Russian Academy of Sciences (SUC "SKIF"). The document was signed by Sergei Shcherbakov, Academician-Secretary of the Department of Physical and Technical Sciences of the NAS of Belarus, and Evgeny Levichev, Director of SUC "SKIF". Within the framework of the Agreement, it is planned, taking into account the priorities of scientific and technological development of the Union State, to combine the efforts of scientists from Belarus and SB of RAS with the aim of creating, on the basis of the international Russian-Belarusian consortium, an experimental station of the second stage of SUC “SKIF” (Bel-SI). The document also provides for the training of highly qualified specialists-users of the designed and other experimental stations planned at SUC “SKIF”, and the conduct of research in priority areas of the Strategy for Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus. A meeting was held with the Chairman of Siberian Branch of RAS, Vice President of RAS, Academician Valentin Parmon, and representatives of SB RAS administration and SUC “SKIF” Collective Use Center, at which the prospects for developing further cooperation between the NAS of Belarus and the SB RAS were discussed, and negotiations were held on the conceptual project and technological features of the joint station “Bel-SI”. Belarusian delegation visited a number of institutes in Akademgorodok. The Roadmap for Scientific and Technical Cooperation between the NAS of Belarus and SB of RAS for 2023–2025 was discussed.
Shared Use Center “Siberian Ring Photon Source” of the Institute of Catalysis of SB of RAS is a megascience class project with a 4+ generation synchrotron, which is being built in Novosibirsk science city Koltsovo. The unique characteristics of the new synchrotron will conduct advanced research with bright and intense X-ray beams in many areas - chemistry, physics, materials science, biology, geology, humanities. SKIF will also help solve urgent problems of innovative and industrial enterprises. Siberian Ring Photon Source is being created within the framework of the national project "Science and Universities" for the development of a modern domestic network of new-generation synchrotron radiation sources in Russia. Completion of construction is scheduled for the end of 2025.
