Over 40 new projects presented by Minsk young inventors during city round of Republican 100 Ideas for Belarus youth competition
03.12.2014 14:26:51
By Mikhail Svetlov
Over 40 new projects presented by Minsk young inventors during city round of Republican 100 Ideas for Belarus youth competition
Minsk’s 100 Ideas for Belarus exhibition widely demonstrated innovative approaches to encouraging tolerance among youngsters, as well as patriotism, respect for the Motherland and a feeling of duty. This year, the event featured an open presentation site for participants and a public format for expert council sessions. In addition, organisers initiated Internet voting to define ideas worthy of the audience’s choice award, alongside special voting boxes placed at exhibition venues. Winners of the Minsk exhibition have received the chance to present their developments at the national round, competing for 2015 Republican Contest of Innovative Projects grants.
Over 40 new projects presented by Minsk young inventors during city round of Republican 100 Ideas for Belarus youth competition
At a presentation for the 100 Ideas for Belarus youth contest
Minsk inventors demonstrated their unique ideas to an expert jury across four nominations: Scientific-Technical Developments; Health, Medicine and Ecology; Social Patriotic Projects; and IT and the Internet. Young scientists from Belarus’ National Academy of Sciences presented their sci-tech developments, while participants from the Emergency Ministry’s Command-Engineering Institute demonstrated their innovations in overcoming emergencies. The Belarusian State University focused on analogues of expensive foreign medicines, developed to treat cancer, and the Belarusian State Medical University proposed easy methods of measuring blood pressure and blood sugar levels. The Belarusian State Technological University presented domestic pigments for use in the vanish-and-paint industry. Meanwhile, participants of the ‘Ocheredi.by’ (Очереди.by) project proposed establishing an Internet platform to unite all socially significant agencies and organisations countrywide. It’s quite possible that such an online-queue can become reality.
Minsk’s 100 Ideas for Belarus exhibition widely demonstrated innovative approaches to encouraging tolerance among youngsters, as well as patriotism, respect for the Motherland and a feeling of duty. This year, the event featured an open presentation site for participants and a public format for expert council sessions. In addition, organisers initiated Internet voting to define ideas worthy of the audience’s choice award, alongside special voting boxes placed at exhibition venues. Winners of the Minsk exhibition have received the chance to present their developments at the national round, competing for 2015 Republican Contest of Innovative Projects grants.