Head of the Department of Optics Vladimir Gaishun and Head of the Department of Theoretical Physics Gennady Tyumenkov took part in the XXXI International Congress of the Association of Space Flight Participants, which was held in Minsk.

The event brought together about 90 cosmonauts from 19 countries. The largest delegations came from Russia and the United States. The event involved participants from Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, China and other countries.

Vice Rector for academic affairs, Doctor of physics and mathematics, Professor Igor Semchenko took part in the XXI International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena Metamaterials'2018 that was hosted by Aalto University (Espoo, Finland) on August 27 – 30, 2018.

The Congress provides a topical forum to share the latest results of the metamaterials research in Europe and worldwide, bringing together the engineering, physics, applied mathematics and material science communities working on artificial materials.

Head of the Department of Geology and Geography Alexander Pavlovsky took part in the republican festival "Kazakhstan - Land of the Great Steppe" held in the National Cultural Complex "Ethnoaul" in Astana. The event was aiming at the cultural exchange and business cooperation in the field of tourism, revival of national values ​​and traditions of the Kazakh people, formation of interest and loyalty to the Turkic culture, promotion of the brand of artisans of Kazakhstan.

Human rights in detail, imitation of court hearings, acquaintance with the real picture of refugees in Belarus... Yurtaman Gylyjov, a student of the Law faculty of Francisk Skorina Gomel State University took part in the 1st Summer School in Refugee Law and Rights.

"Only 27 people were selected to participate in the educational project organized by the UNHCR Office in Belarus," the student said. "In order to be elected, we had to prepare and study thoroughly the refugee problem.

Lectures, leisure, communication – this is the programme for the trainees of the Summer School in Psychology organized at Francisk Skorina Gomel State University and including 12 days of vacation with the benefit for the future career. Problems of psychological support for the children with mental deficiency and psychological development disorders will be considered by the lecturers and students from Germany and Belarus.

To get valuable experience of successful overcoming the consequences of The Chernobyl accident, and then adapt it in their homeland – this is the purpose of the visit of the delegation from the Fukushima Prefecture in the Gomel region.  More than 40 representatives of students came to the Gomel region for new knowledge. Each of them has its own vision of the problem and is ready to implement the project to solve it. The presentation of the projects was held in the Gomel state University named after F. Skaryna.

On March 28, the team " Gomel-2 "won the title of the Champion of the Republic of Belarus among the teams of the Higher League, confidently beating Minsk" Junior " with the score 5:2 in the away fifth match of the final series.

 "Gomel-2" is one of the most titled clubs of the Highest League, but since 2007 the team has not been able to conquer the top step of the podium. And now, 11 years later, the wards of Artem Senkevich and Dmitry Pantsyrev – a graduate of our University – were able to win the main award of the Belarusian youth hockey.

On April 20-22, Vilnius (Lithuania) hosted the international tournament on field hockey. The sports competition was attended by teams from Belarus, Ukraine and Lithuania.

The honor of our country was defended by the hockey team of HC "Gomel", among whose members are students of the faculty of physical culture of the F. Skarina state University: freshmen Vadim Bondarchuk and Tseluyko Denis, third-year student Sergey Shkredov and fourth-year student Alexander Belykh.