Students from leading agricultural universities in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine will gather for a scientific conference in Vitebsk

May 18, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Students of leading agricultural universities of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine will take part in the 95th international scientific and practical conference "Students - to Science and Practice of the Agro-Industrial Complex", which will be held at the Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine on May 20-21. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by Sergey Petrovsky, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Student Research Work of the Vitebsk university, Candidate of Veterinary Sciences. In total, more than 200 future veterinary specialists will present their developments at the forum, which are mainly applied in nature and are aimed at solving problems of increasing the efficiency of specific agro-industrial complex enterprises. The work of the conference will be organized in five sections and will cover a wide range of issues related to innovative technologies in diagnostics, treatment, disease prevention, as well as in management and economics of modern agro-industrial production. One section of the conference will be dedicated to social and humanitarian disciplines (history, philosophy, etc.), where students' research will be presented, mainly on the topic of the Great Patriotic War and dedicated to the 65th anniversary of Victory. Based on the results of the scientific and practical forum, the authors of the five best research and development works will be awarded honorary prizes, and all participants will be awarded diplomas. In addition, a collection of students' scientific works will be published, and such a publication will play an important role in the development of future veterinary scientific personnel, noted Sergey Petrovsky. The Vitebsk State Academy of Veterinary Medicine is one of the oldest universities in Belarus; in 2009, the academy celebrated its 85th anniversary. The leading agricultural university trains specialists for the agro-industrial complex and also carries out a significant volume of scientific research. Sixteen scientific and pedagogical schools have been formed at the academy, 22 teachers have the scientific degree of Doctor of Sciences, 183 teachers are Candidates of Sciences, of whom 12 defended their candidate dissertations in 2009. More than 70% of the academy's students constantly participate in research work.-0-