On September 18, 2025,the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus will host the 38th meeting of the Council of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (IAAS) ) (66 Independence Av. and 1 Akademicheskaya St., Presidium Meeting Room No. 2, 4th floor). The meeting of the IAAS Council of Young Scientists will be held the day before.
Since 2017, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has been acting as the headquarters of the IAAS in its organizational and methodological support. The association unites 27 academies of sciences and major research centers from 16 countries (CIS countries, China, Vietnam, Mongolia, Georgia, Cuba and Montenegro). Within the framework of the IAAS, there are 27 scientific councils in advanced fields of science. The head of the association is the Chairman of the Presidium of the NAS of Belarus. The highest governing body of the International Association of Academies of Sciences is the IAAS Council.
The heads and representatives of the leadership of the National Academies of Sciences of Belarus, Russia, several provinces of China, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Cuba, the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan and others are invited to the event.
The heads of leading scientific centers will also take part in the work of the IAAS Council. Among them are Kurchatov Institute National Research Center (Russia), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Russian Academy of Education, Russian Center for Scientific Information, and others.
The meeting participants will be addressed with greetings by the CIS Secretary General S. Lebedev, the State Secretary of the Union State S. Glazyev, and heads of foreign and international organizations.
The meeting will consider a number of important issues. Participants will discuss the main results of the IAAS activities and promising areas for the development of the association, the activities of the Council of Young Scientists of the IAAS, the election of full members (academicians) of the IAAS and other important issues. The heads of the academies of sciences will focus on issues of further mutually beneficial cooperation in key areas of development of modern science, leading scientists from different countries will present scientific reports.
The meeting will begin at 10:00.
