Priority areas of science, technology and innovation activities in Belarus for 2021-2025 have been approved by the Edict of the President of Belarus of 7 May 2020 No 156.

The list of the priority areas includes the following.

1. Digital information, communication and interdisciplinary technologies and productions which are based on them:

• development of information society, e-government and digital economy;
• mathematics and modeling of complex functional systems (technological, biological and social systems);
• information and management systems;
• smart city technologies;
• big data technologies;
• artificial intelligence and robotics;
• digital spatial models, augmented reality technologies;
• aerospace and geoinformation technologies;
• communication tools and data transmission methods;
• high-performance computing tools;
• physics of fundamental interactions of the micro- and macroworld, emerging technologies (quantum, cognitive, neuro-digital, and anthropomorphic).

2. Biological, medical, pharmaceutical and chemical technologies and production:

• biotechnology (genomic and post-genomic, cellular, microbial, medical, industrial);
• systems and synthetic biology;
• artificial tissues and organs;
• diagnostics, medical prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, including those of viral etiology, and non-communicable diseases, examination of the quality of medical care;
• personalized medicine;
• medical rehabilitation of patients;
• maternal and child health;
• management of human health and environment, healthy and safe food, active longevity;
• medical equipment;
• pharmaceutical substances, diagnostic medications and systems, medicines and immunomodulators;
• antibiotic resistance;
• chemical technologies and production, petrochemistry;
• fine chemical synthesis;
• processing of raw materials, forest chemistry;
• textile materials with desired properties.

 3. Energy, construction, ecology and environmental management:

• nuclear power, nuclear and radiation safety;
• new types of energy;
• energy efficiency, energy saving;
• intelligent electric power systems, “smart“ electricity consumption;
• high-capacity electric accumulators, fuel cells;
• environmental and energy technologies in architecture and construction;
• new construction materials and structures;
• rational use of energy resources;
• rational usage, reproduction and management of plant, animal, forest and water resources;
• biological and landscape diversity;
• specially protected natural territories;
• environment and climatology;
• minerals and subsurface studies;
• techniques and technologies of wastes collection, neutralization and usage.

 4. Engineering, engineering technologies, instrument making and innovative materials:

• mechanical engineering and machine science;
• industrial automated complexes;
• electric and unmanned vehicles;
• laser, plasma, optical technologies and equipment;
• micro -, opto-and microwave electronics, photonics, microsensorics;
• radio-electronic systems and technologies, instrumentation;
• metallurgical technologies;
• additive technologies;
• composite and multifunctional materials;
• nanomaterials and nanotechnologies, nanodiagnostics.

 5. Agro-industrial and food technologies:

• food safety and quality of agricultural products;
• soil fertility;
• selection and reproduction of agricultural plants and animals;
• veterinary medicine;
• agricultural machinery and equipment;
• precision farming;
• production, storage and processing of agricultural products.

 6. Ensuring human, social and state security:

• social, humanity, economic and information security (human, society and the state, history, culture, education and youth policy, physical culture, sport and tourism, management of technical, technological and social processes);
• scientific and technical provision of the national safety and the state's defense capability;
• tools for technical and cryptographic information protection, cryptology and cybersecurity;
• law-making and effective law enforcement;
• law enforcement activities, forensic expertise;
• emergency protection.

The above priorities are the basis for shaping public programs in research, technology and innovation and provide the budget support for their implementation in 2021-2025.

Source: Pravo.by