Lukashenko hosts meeting to discuss new academy of intelligent technologies

12:18, 4 August

The idea of a new university, the Academy of Intelligent Technologies, has been placed on the agenda of a meeting chaired by Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko on 4 August, BelTA has learned.

The discussion included representatives of the government, the President Administration, the National Academy of Sciences, relevant ministries, and higher education institutions.

The head of state emphasized first that the new educational institution should have a practical purpose. “I do not rule out that this research center will include many fundamental elements. But it must have an applied focus, for real life. Preferably not for the distant future,” the president said. “We need to create something that will be needed tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.”

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