National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

1. National Academy of Sciences of Belarus EXPERIENCE from PARTICIPATION of BELARUS in ERA-NET MARTEC II & ERA-NET TRANSPORT III Natallia Yankevich, Head of Centre Baku, Azerbaijan 13th of October 2016

2. EXPERIENCE from PARTICIPATION of BELARUS inERA-NET MARTEC II & ERA-NET TRANSPORT III Main questions: • WHAT is the status of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus as a scientific union? And so WHY the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus had possibilities for participation in ERANET MARTEC II & ERA-NET Transport III (benefits and obstacles for participation)? • WHY the participation in ERANET MARTEC II and ERA-NET Transport III was very important for the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus? Achieved results. • Further steps.

3. The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is the highest state scientific organization of the Republic of Belarus The National Academy of Sciences is reported to the President of the Republic of Belarus, accountable to the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus. National Academy of Sciences of Belarus was founded in October 1928 under the name of the Belarussian Academy of Sciences. Today the staff of the Academy includes more than 16,000 researchers, technicians and supporting personnel. There are more than 6,000 researchers, 511 Doctors of Sciences and about 2,000 Candidates of Sciences among them

4. The National Academy of Belarus has the following main objectives: • the scientific support of the economic, social, legal and state development of the Republic of Belarus, its culture, the protection and rational use of nature; • the organization, performing and coordination of the fundamental and applied scientific research and developments in the most important directions of natural, technical, humanitarian, social sciences; • the determination and submission for the approval in the established by legislation order the lists of the priority directions of the fundamental and applied scientific research of the Republic of Belarus; • the submission in accordance with established procedure proposals for funding of scientific and innovation activities in the Republic of Belarus due to the means of the republican budget and other centralized sources, etc.

5. National Scientific Programs of Republic of Belarus

6. IMPORTANCE of ERA-NET MARTEC II HISTORY: The first submarine of metal was designed in the XIX century by Casimir Chernovsky from Belarus and the first metal submarine was built by Karl Schilder from Vitebsk. Almost 200 Belarusians had served on the legendary "Aurora" over the years. More than one million Belarusians carried naval watch from 1945, 74 Admirals among them. 9 Bela-rusian seamen were awarded with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Inland water transport is the most important area for the transport sector in Belarus. A number of small ports are located in the basins of the rivers Pripyat, Dnieper, Sozh, Berezina, Neman, West Dvina. Trainings for water transport are carried out by 2 high educational establishments (Belarusian State University of Transport, Belarusian National Technical University) and 3 secondary educational establishments (Svetlogorsk State Industrial College, Gomel State Technical College, Gomel State vocational school № 30 of the River Fleet). Belarus is located inside the continent, so the building of channels is very important. The project on creation of the channel between the Dnieper and the Western Dvina is very interesting, because it would be possible to open the shortest shipping route from the Baltic to the Black Sea. At the same time Dnieper-Bug canal, connecting the Dnieper, Pripyat, Bug, Vistula and Oder with access to the Baltic Sea, is functioning in Belarus, but there are some areas that require recovery. Now the Belarusian Sea Flat is forming too and Belarus is the partial owner of one terminal on the Baltic Sea (Klaipeda, for transportation of potash salt).

7. IMPORTANCE of ERA-NET Transport III Belarus is a continental country, linked by transport ties with Europe and Asia. The place and role of transport in the economy of Belarus are characterized by such indicator as the share of the transport in GDP - 8.4%. 6.1% of the employed in the economy people are working in the transport sector of Belarus. Transport annually consumes about 6% of electricity, 66% of gasoline and 52% of diesel fuel. Special attention in Belarus for the transport investigations was formed due to the following factors: 1) concentration of a number of large and small plants, producing vehicles (Minsk Automobile Plant, Minsk Tractor Plant, Belarusian Automobile Plant and so on), car components (Minsk Motor Plant, Integral and so on) – construction and production of the transport means; 2) geographical place of Belarus as a transit country (international transport corridors № 2 (Berlin – Warsaw –Minsk – Moscow - Ekaterinburg), № 9 (St. Petersburg - Minsk - Gomel - Kiev) and № 9B (Gomel - Minsk -- Vilnius - Klaipeda - Kaliningrad) pass through Belarus) – logistic questions; 3) necessity of compliance with environmental standards for the transport as a major environmental pollutant (especially important in connection with Chernobyl) – ecology questions; 4) availability of highly qualified personnel (National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 54 institutions of high education, etc.).

8. PARTICIPATION OF the NATIONAL ACADEMY of SCIENCES of BELARUS in CALLS (2011 – 2015) ERA-NET TRANSPORT III: Flagship Call “Future Traveling” - project “PERRON” (Joint Institute of Informatics of NAS of Belarus) Flagship Call “Step by Step” – observer Flagship Call “Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains” - partner ERA-NET MARTEC II CALL 2015 – project “SmartPS”

9. Thanks for your attention Natallia Yankevich CENTRE FOR COOPERATION WITH EU PROGRAMMES 66, Independence av., 220072, Minsk, Belarus E-mail: lab_12@tut.by, center_by@tut.by http://www.nasb.gov.by