In 2023, BSU exported $2.76m of high-tech products and services
Last year, exports of Belarusian State University (BSU) science-intensive products and services rose by 20 percent compared to 2022, reaching $2.76m, with export deliveries to Russia increasing by 47 percent and to those to China jumping by 56 percent. BSU Vice-Rector for Research Andrei Blokhin spoke about this trend, alongside other scientific achievements of the last year at a joint meeting of the Council and the BSU Academic Council – as reported by the university press service.
Partnership between BSU’s Research Institute for Nuclear Problems and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna, Russia) is an example of successful export co-operation. Growing supplies of goods to Russia, approximately doubling in monetary terms, became the main factor in the growth of science-intensive exports. Last year, BSU’s Research Institute for Nuclear Problems carried out several contracts as part of the NICA project (superconducting collider of protons and heavy ions, being built at the JINR premises). Currently, the contract for the manufacture, supply and installation of thermal stabilisation and cooling systems for the TPC and ECAL detectors of the MPD installation is ongoing.
The Vice-Rector for Research also noted that the share of applied research out of the total number of tasks performed by BSU scientists increased by 7.5 percent. Together with the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and Russian scientific organisations, the university participated in the implementation of 10 tasks of Union State four sci-tech programmes: Intelauto; Integration-SG; Complex-SG; Component-F. As part of these tasks, elements of a fuel consumption and quality control system will be developed, a technology for manufacturing high-quality oriented diamond substrates will be proposed, a ground-based infrastructure for managing orbital constellations of small-sized spacecraft will be created, and an experimental sample of a hardware and software complex will be prepared that implements the technology for measuring and validating satellite imagery data training grounds in Belarus and Russia.
The use by the Belarusian Ministry of Nature and Environmental Protection of the Water Protection Zones information and analytical system – developed by scientists from the Sevchenko Research Institute of Applied Physical Problems at BSU – is an example of the practical application of BSU research. It enables to monitor the occurrence of pollution in water protection zones and coastal strips using satellite data and neural networks. Practical developments also include a mobile hardware and software complex for observing space objects, a scientific and educational analytical complex for studying the dynamics of luminescence and photo-absorption of semiconductor structures, and a Smart Home scientific and educational complex which were introduced into the university’s educational process.
Positive dynamics are observed in the sphere of international contracts. Their total number increased by 12 percent last year. At the same time, the need was noted to refocus on finding customers in the EAEU and CIS member states, alongside China.
