Competition for business ideas and social initiatives for Agro-Industrial Complex and rural areas
The Republican Scientific Unitary Enterprise «The Institute of System Researches in Agro-Industrial Complex of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus» invites participation in the competition for business ideas and social initiatives for Agro-Industrial Complex and rural areas (for students, undergraduates, and master's students). The competition will be held from September to November 2024 as part of the Republican Seminar «Investment issues for ensuring sustainable innovative development.»
The goals of the competition are to identify promising entrepreneurial ideas and social initiatives, promote innovation in the agricultural sector, create a reserve of creative, innovative, and economically minded students capable of developing and implementing innovative projects in agricultural production, stimulate innovative youth activity in the field of agricultural economics, provide career guidance among schoolchildren, increase economic literacy and entrepreneurial competence among students, and implement the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus's initiative «Young Academy» through the Youth Startup Academy, which operates at the State Enterprise « The Institute of System Researches in Agro-Industrial Complex of the NAS of Belarus.»
Applications from students and schoolchildren are accepted in the following areas: «Economics and Organization of Agricultural Production,» «Innovations in Agro-Industrial Complex Production and Processing,» «Modern Mechanization and Technical Service Technologies in Agro-Industrial Complex,» «Digital Transformation of Agro-Industrial Complex,» «Organization and Development of Peasant (Farm) Enterprises,» «Improving Food Security,» «Improving the Quality of Life in Rural Areas,» and «Development of Agrotourism.»
Please submit works for the competition by November 1, 2023, to the email address: startup2024@refor.by
Contact phones: +375 29 318 94 11; +375 17 364 61 05.