The meeting of the International Board of Trustees was held at the ISEI BSU.
On May 21, 2020, a meeting of the International Board of Trustees of the ISEI BSU (hereinafter referred to as the IPU) was held in «Skype» mode, in which the following participants took part:
Viktor Anatolyevich Gaisenok, Professor, Rector of the Republican Institute of Higher Education, Republic of Belarus;
Mikhail Vladimirovich Belevtsev, PhD, Deputy Director for Science of the Russian National Research Center for Pediatric Oncology, Hematology and Immunology, Republic of Belarus;
Marina Vladimirovna Borovko, Deputy General Director for Public Relations of the unitary enterprise “Coca-Cola Beverages Belarus”, Republic of Belarus.
Irina Vladimirovna Dardynskaya, PhD, Co-Director of the Fogarty Program at the University of Illinois in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova, Department of Maternal and Child Health at the Great Lakes World Health Center, United States of America;
Ahmed Demirak, PhD, Head of the Department of Environmental Research and Solutions, Mugla University, Republic of Turkey;
Yuri Alexandrovich Korovin, Professor, Head of the Department of General and Special Physics, Obninsk Institute of Atomic Energy, Russian Federation;
Gerasimos Liberatos, Professor, National Technical University of Athens, Hellenic Republic;
Vladimir Nikolaevich Linev, Professor, Research and Production Private Unitary Enterprise “Adani”, republic of Belarus;
Sergey Stepanenko, Professor, Rector of Odessa State Ecological University, Ukraine;
Stanislav Alexandrovich Stepanov, Professor, International Independent Ecological and Political Science University, Russian Federation;
Kari Hyppynen, PhD, president of the Baltic Sea Region University Network, Republic of Finland.
Meeting agenda:
- About the results of the 2019-2020 academic year.
- Information about the functioning of the journal “Ecology” (discussion of issues and problems).
- About projects for distance education at the ISEI BSU.
- On the implementation of the proposals of the members of the International Board of Trustees.
- About the work plan of the International Board of Trustees for the 2020-2021 academic year.
The members of the IPU supported the initiative of the Institute to expand and improve the distance learning system in the institution, heard and approved information about the development of a new educational program in the specialty “Bioinformatics in Ecology and Medicine”.
On the issue of the functioning of the journal “Ecology”, Vladimir Linev received a proposal to support the journal by actively involving employees of the research and production private unitary enterprise “Adani” in the preparation of printed materials. Irina Vladimirovna Dardynskaya and Yuri Alexandrovich Korovin suggested that the journal articles should be duplicated in English in order to increase the attention to the journal from the English-speaking audience.
Sergey Maskevich thanked all the participants of the meeting of the International Board of Trustees for their fruitful work and expressed hope for active cooperation in the future.
