With the support of Science Around Us Foundation, the book The Great Art of Artillery by Kazimir Semenovich was purchased for the Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum in London.
With the support of “Science Around Us” Foundation, including participation of private individuals and volunteers, the restoration of the ancestral estate of the renowned Belarusian scientist Jakub Narkevich-Yodko is being carried out for the seventh year in the running.
With the support of “Science Around Us” Foundation, including participation of private individuals and volunteers, the restoration of the ancestral estate of the renowned Belarusian scientist Jakub Narkevich-Yodko is being carried out for the sixth year in the running.
Successful work of the Student Laboratory continues with the support of the Science Around Us Foundation.
With the support of “Science Around Us” Foundation, including participation of private individuals and volunteers, the restoration of the ancestral estate of the renowned Belarusian scientist Jakub Narkevich-Yodko is being carried out for the seventh year in the running.
Thanks to the support of the Science Around Us Foundation, a large delegation from Belarus left for Tallinn in September to participate in a major robotics competition ROBOTEX 2019. The result was stunning: our students were among the best!
The organizers and participants of the Science Festival held in the Botanical Garden managed to make science popular among children and pupils during just one day
The support of the Science Around Us foundation and the contribution of individuals and volunteers have been driving the reconstruction of the family manor of the famous Belarusian scientist Yakub Narkevich-Iodko for more than three years already
Large-scale RobotChallenge 2019 robotics competition was held from 9 to 11 August 2019 in Beijing
Finding all possible ways of soundproofing rooms and studying the effects of salt on soil fertility… Secondary school students from 11 countries discussed advanced ideas and solved complex problems in the field of natural sciences in Minsk.
Young mathematicians from Belarusian schools took gold and silver at the prestigious International Tournament of Young Mathematicians held in Barcelona
Thanks to the support of the Science Around Us Foundation, the Belarusian scientific and practical journal Digital Transformation is working towards reaching an international level and improving the quality of the published materials.
Thanks to the support of the Science Around Us Foundation, six young scientists from Belarus went to the International Conference in Kuala Lumpur and came home with flying colors!
With the support of the Science Around Us Foundation, the first anthropomorphic robot was printed and assembled at the Open Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
With the support from the Science Around Us Foundation, the Robatz Network team reproduce swarm intelligence algorithms and “train” robots to function by analogy
Thanks to the support of the Science Around Us Foundation, the cycle of
documentary films “100 Names of Belarus” was enriched with the one about a
world-famous scientist, the founder of cosmobiology Alexander Chizhevsky
“Traveling is the best food for the soul and thought, the basis for fresh ideas and new projects.” Such a brilliant idea leaped into the minds of the Science Around Us Foundation, that became a partner of the My Scratch Story contest, awarding its winners with a trip to Warsaw.
Thanks to the support of the Science Around Us Foundation, the cycle of documentary and historical films “100 Names of Belarus” was enriched with a film about the Belarusian scientist and great experimenter Zygmunt Wróblewski.
The student laboratory of the Faculty of Radiophysics of BSU is developing a game in which players have to fight against a group of 72 robots. The experiment in the field of group robotics was possible thanks to the support of the Science Around us Foundation.
The largest annual robotics competition ROBOTEX 2018 was held in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, from November 29 to December 2. A Belarusian team was able to participate thanks to the financial support of the Science Around Us Foundation.
Thanks to the support of the Science Around Us Foundation, the specialists of the United Institute of Informatics Problems of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (UIIP NAS) build an anthropomorphic robot, conduct research in the field of speech recognition technology and do science art.
Thanks to the financial support of the Science Around Foundation and the team of volunteers, the manor of the Belarusian scientist Narkevich-Jodko was in the centre of full-scale restoration in 2018. We publish a brief report.
Preview Thanks to the financial support of the Science Around Foundation, the cycle of historical documentaries “100 Names of Belarus” was enriched with a film about the world-famous Belarusian scientist Ignacy Domeyko.
Belarus took two bronzes, participating for the first time in the world’s largest robotics competition Robot Challenge 2018. Science Around Us Foundation was the major sponsor of their trip.
Science Around Us Foundation funded the trip of the Belarusian team to the the Robotic Olympics held in Mexico City (Mexico) from August 16 to 18, 2018
With the support of the Science Around Us Foundation, the representative team of students studying at BSU and BNTU lyceums took part in the 31st International Young Physicists’ Tournament in Beijing
Belarusian team won a bronze at the International Young Naturalists’ Tournament (IYNT VI) held in Tbilisi on July 5 to 12. The trip was funded by the Science Around Us Foundation
Belarusian teams took gold and bronze at the X International Tournament of Young Mathematicians (ITYM X) held in Paris on July 5 to 12. The trip was funded by the Science Around Us Foundation
Mitchel Resnick, the developer of the new programming language Scratch, professor of MIT Media Lab visited Minsk. The visit was funded by the Science Around Us Foundation
Belarusian students won bronze for reports in mathematics and computer science at the International Conference of Young Scientists in Belgrade (Serbia). The trip was funded by the Science Around Us Foundation
The third film of the 100 Names of Belarus documentary cycle dedicated to Sofia Kovalevskaya, the first female professor, was screened with the financial support of the Science Around Us Foundation.
Belarusian team of young robotics engineers sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation participated in WRO 2017 that took place in San José, Costa Rica, in November 2017.
BNTU students participated in major European robotics competition ROBOTEX 2017 that took place in Tallinn, Estonia, on November 24–26. The trip of the Belarusian team was sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation.
Belarusian pupils took the 4th and 5th place in presentation competition JuniorSkills that took place in Abu Dhabi (UAE) on October 13–20. The trip of the team was sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation.
Belarusian teachers sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation participated in the international Scratch Conference that took place in Budapest on August 24–25 and was dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Scratch.
The Science Around Us Foundation and the Local Charitable Foundation for the Development of Science, Innovation Technologies, and Culture Named After Professor Narkevich-Iodko support the restoration of the Narkevich-Iodkos’ Family Estate Nadneman located 80 kilometers far from Minsk. The International Scientific and Historical Seminar “Scientific Heritage of Professor Y. O. Narkevich-Iodko” took place within the framework of Narkevich-Iodko cultural heritage revival in Nadneman-Podyelniki. It was organized by Uzda Regional Museum of Local History, Uzda District Executive Committee, the Local Charitable Foundation Named After Professor Y. O. Narkevich-Iodko, the Science Around Us Foundation, and the Belarusian Physical Society.
The Science Around Us Foundation helped the Open Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory procure the necessary research equipment.
The performance of the Belarusian teams at the 9th International Tournament of Young Mathematicians (ITYM 2017) was the most successful for us during the whole time of the Tournament existence. The trip to a Romanian city of Iassy was sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation.
Belarusian Lyceum pupils once again participated in International Young Naturalists’ Tournament that took place in Nanjing, China, on June 29 – July 5, 2017. The trip was sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation.
Belarusian team sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation and EPAM System for the first time participated in educational robotics competition FIRST global challenge 2017 that took place in Washington, D.C. (USA) on July 14–19, 2017.
Pupils from Belarus, sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation, participated at 24th International Conference of Young Scientists (ICYS 2017). The amazing result included 4 medals out of 4 possible including gold in Mathematics.
A group of Belarusian scientists from the Laboratory of Cell Engineering and Bio- and Nanotechnology of BSU together with physiologists from the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation have been growing biological neural networks for two years already.
Winners of the Scratch Master National Contest spent a weekend in Warsaw sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation.
The team from the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of BNTU took part in the ROBOTEX-2016 in Tallinn thanks to the financial support provided by the Science Around Us Foundation.
Belarusian team of young engineers sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation performed successfully at the major world robotics competition WRO 2016 that took place in New Delhi, India, on November 25–27, 2016.
A unique exhibition “Obvious and Incredible: Optical Effects” opened on November 3 in the OLD CITY shopping center in Grodno. 30 interactive installations from the founders of the Copernicus Science Center in Warsaw introduce the visitors to the world of light and shadow, images, holograms, and optical illusions. The exhibition was sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation.
Minsk Palace of Children and Youth hosted the First Open Belarusian Robotics Festival “ROBOFEST BELARUS-2016” on September 16–18. The Festival was organized by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, Educational Center of High Technology Park, JLLC, Republican Center of Innovation and Technical Creativity, and Minsk State Palace of Children and Youth. The colleagues from Russia taught some master classes for children and teachers sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation.
Belarusian Lyceum pupils won the 2nd place in a prestigious International Young Naturalists’ Tournament that took place in Shiraz, Iran, on 16–22 July. The trip of the Belarusian team was sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation.
Belarusian teams successfully performed and won a silver and a bronze medal at 8th International Tournament of Young Mathematicians that took place in Russia on 4–11 July. The trip was sponsored by the Science Around Us Foundation.
According to the results of the Republican Scientific and Practical Conference, six best pupils represented our country, each of whom eventually won a medal
Science Around Us continues to support the project involving creation and launch of nanosatellites within CanSat Championships in Russia in 2016.
Thanks to SAUF’s support Minsk Planetarium acquired second year rights to several popular spheric movies for children.
Science Around Us has continued to support the “Net-on-Chip” project carried out at the Biophysics Research Center. The main outcome of the project’s first year was the development of the technology and processes for growing neuron cells to enable future research.
Under financial support from SAUF the “Local Not-for-profit Foundation for Science, Innovative Technologies and Culture named after prof. Narkevich-Jodko” is continuing the restoration of the Nadneman Manor, located 80 km away from Minsk.
Creative team which produces popular in Belarus television project “Countdown” in collaboration with Science Around Us started production of new series of documentaries «Genius of Belarusian Science». This series of films will tell the stories of Byelorussian scientists who made revolutionary discoveries in science. Opening episode will be dedicated to a man who in fact was the first to discover radio waves and invented electrography – Jakub Narkevich-Jodko.
The famous Russian cosmologist Valery A. Rubakov gave a lecture at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. The lecture was organized by the Science & Innovation magazine, http://innosfera.org/, with sponsorship support from SAUF.
In November 2015 with financial support from SAUF a team from Belarus took part in the World Robot Olympiad in Doha, Qatar.
With sponsorship support of by Science Around Us Foundation, a project to build and launch CanSat micro-satellites was implemented within the Russian Student Championship.
The Concert Season of the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society was opened by the performance of the play Icarus at the Edge of Time in Minsk, on September 8, 2015. The concert was held under the sponsorship and organizational support of Science Around Us Foundation.
Methodological collaboration with the “Science Around Us” helped the project “Science beside itself” to organize lectures and workshops on Chemistry, Astronomy, Biology and other sciences for more than 800 people
With sponsorship support of Science Around Us Foundation, a Phys Lab science club opened in Minsk on the basis of the Elemento Minsk Museum of Science
Thanks to the sponsorship of Science Around Us Foundation, a team of Belarusian students took part in the 46th International School Olympiad in Physics.
Thanks to the sponsorship of Science Around Us Foundation, a team of Belarusian students took part in the 28th International Young Physicists Tournament.
Under the sponsorship of Science Around Us, a team of Belarusian school pupils took part in the 3rd International Young Naturalists Tournament – IYNT-2015 3d International Young Naturalists’ Tournament
In the spring of 2015, the Park of High Technologies held a drawing and crafts contest Science through the eyes of children among schoolchildren of Belarus. With the support of Science Around Us, an Almanac of the best paintings and handicrafts was pubished.
In May 2015, with the support of Science Around Us, a Student Natural Sciences Tournament was held in Minsk at the Chemistry Department of the Belarusian State University.
SAUF signed a three year agreement with the Biophysics department to provide a grant for research in the field of life neural structures function on microelectrode arrays “Net-on-chip biological neural networks: from investigations to applications”.
SAUF sponsored participation of Belarusian team of school children in the 22nd International Conference of Young Scientists. All the team members brought medals home.
With SAUF’s support, Festival for Children and Young Adults “Robodrom” took place in April 2015. The festival was part of the IT exhibition TIBO.
Thanks to SAUF’s support Minsk Planitarium acquired rights to several popular spheric movies for children.
In December 2014 SAUF sponsored Belarusian team’s participation in World Robot Olympiad (WRO) in Sochi.
In November 2014 SAUF sponsored the second citywide robotics competition for kids. The contest was part of the Japanese cultural week and its theme was sumo wrestling.
In November 2014, SAUF’s sponsored installation of the new modern equipment in Minsk Planetarium making it possible to show movies in the spherical format.
10-11 October 2014 BSU’s Department of physics held a conference “Applied and fundamental aspects of theoretical physics”. The conference was dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics department. The keynote speakers included well-known scientists from Belarus, Denmark, Russia, the USA and Switzerland.
In the winter of 2014 High Tech Park held an art contest “Science through Children’s eyes” among the local school students. Later that year SAUF sponsored publication of the album featuring works by the contest winners. Each of the 50 contest winners received a complimentary copy of the album.
In May 2014 SAUF sponsored the first citywide Robohockey youth competition in Minsk. Kids and teens from the local robotics clubs participated in the competition.