Best innovative projects of 2021 selected in Minsk
On December 15, 2021, the ceremony of awarding the winners and prize-winners of the Republican competition of innovative projects 2021 took place.
The republican competition for innovative projects is held by the State Committee for Science and Technology and the Belarusian Innovation Fund with the participation of the Ministry of Education, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, and the Belarusian Republican Youth Union.
In 2021, 145 applications were submitted to the competition, of which 54 were in the category «Best innovative project», 91 – in the category «Best youth innovative project». 36 projects reached the final. The best developments were innovations in the field of medicine, energy and materials science.
The Board of the Competition has determined one winner and five prize-winners in each nomination. The winners received cash prizes from the organizers in the amount of 840 to 2494 Belarusian rubles. Also, 5 projects were selected, which will receive funds for commercialization in the amount of 16.5 thousand Belarusian rubles.
The winner in the «Best Innovative Project» nomination was the neurosurgeon of the Gomel Regional Clinical Hospital – Evgeny Vladimirovich Kovalev with the project «Technology for creating individual navigation templates in spine surgery using additive 3D technologies».
In the nomination «Best youth innovative project» 1st place was taken by a senior researcher at the Scientific Research Center for Materials Science of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences – Stanchik Alena Viktorovna, who presented the project «Flexible solar cells of a new generation».
The holding of the Republican competition for innovative projects contributes to the involvement of youth in innovative activities, and also contributes to the achievement of the Republic of Belarus of Sustainable Development Goals 8, 9, 11 and other SDGs.
More detailed information about the Republican competition of innovative projects in 2021 can be found at the link: http://gknt.gov.by/news/2021/v_minske_vybrali_luchshie_innovatsionnye_proekty_2021_goda/.