F. Skorina State University successfully passed accreditation and received a license for educational activities for the next five years. Comprehensive tests were successfully completed in the specialty "Social Work", the first enrollment for which took place in 2017. The University is accredited in 33 specialties of the I stage of higher education, in 20 specialties of the II stage of higher education (magistracy) and in 18 specialties of retraining of executives and specialists with higher education.

An open dialogue between the university administration and active students took place in the conference hall of the F. Skorina State University. The topic of the conversation is “Belarus: yesterday, today, tomorrow”. The first speaker was Alina Borodulina, secretary of the NGO "Belarusian Republican Youth Union". She told the participants in the dialogue about the electoral system of the Republic of Belarus and the work of the online reception of the Gomel regional organization "Belarusian Republican Youth Union".

The Faculty of Physics and Information Technologies of F. Skorina GSU took part in the Huawei Better World Summit 2020 remote seminar on July 27-30. It was dedicated to the development of 5G, ICT infrastructure and the digital economy. The sessions covered in detail how information technology is being used to effectively combat the spread of COVID-19, as well as accelerate economic recovery after the pandemic.

Medical workers and patrons of the region were awarded in a solemn atmosphere in Gomel. We are proud to note that Sergei Khakhomov, Rector of Gomel State University, and Aleksey Zaitsev, PhD student of the Faculty of Physics and IT, were awarded the Certificate of Honor for their social activism, heartfelt response to the most difficult epidemiological situation in the country, and a great personal contribution to support of medical workers in the Gomel Region.

The Faculty of Physics and Information Technologies of the Skorina Gomel State University opened a robotics class of the Gomel Technopark. The project has become the next step towards the development and strengthening of partnership between organizations. Sergei Khakhomov, Rector of F.

Public discussion of the work "Development of high-energy strengthening and welding technologies and organization of production of export-oriented industrial equipment" took place on the basis of Gomselmash OJSC (I.I. Vegera, M.N. Bosyakov, I.L. Pobol, V. G. Zalessky, B. V. Kovalevsky, O. G. Stepuk). The authors of the work, as well as leading scientists and specialists of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, representatives of the Ministry of Industry, higher educational institutions and industrial enterprises took part in the discussion.

The Faculty of Physics and IT has been participating in the Erasmus + program "Development of practically-oriented student-centered education in the field of modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems" (CybPhys) since 2019. As the situation with Covid-19 does not allow meeting with project participants from Belarus, Ukraine, Latvia and Cyprus, it was decided to organize remote meetings once every two weeks. The first online meeting on the CybPhys project was held on July 27. The work plan of the meeting included the following issues: 

Students of the Faculty of Physics and IT underwent a six-month internship in Italy under the ERASMUS + program this year.

Olga Silkina from Gomel won the gold medal in the modern pentathlon competition at the World Championships, which was held from September 2 to 8 in Budapest (Hungary). Olga, gained 1,368 points in the individual championship and received a personal license for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo.

A former graduate, and now a master's student of our university in the specialty "Physical culture and sports" Yuri Zabolotny became a two-time winner at the open Cup of the Republic of Belarus in athletics. Yuri passed all his rivals in running at distances of 100 and 200 meters. Yuri Zabolotny - Master of Sports of the Republic of Belarus, member of the national athletics team.