On March 11-13, the Department of Theory and Methods of Physical Education of F. Skorina Gomel State University took part in the XXII International Symposium “East – Russia – West. Physical Education, sports and a healthy lifestyle in the XXI century "in the online format.

This scientific event was opened by Doctor of Pedagogy, Professor, Honored Worker of Higher Education, Honored Trainer of the Russian Federation, Professor of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad, Russia) - Viktor Pelmenev.

More than thirty authoritative researchers from Belarus, Poland and Russia are taking part in this conference, which was organized by the Faculty of History of the F. Skorina State University. Among the researchers there are 12 doctors and 16 candidates of historical sciences. Large scientific centers of the three states are represented, that are actively studying international relations of the interwar period. These are the universities of Moscow, Warsaw, Minsk, St. Petersburg, Torun, Smolensk, Bryansk, Brest, Grodno.

From March 3 to 5, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Igor Semchenko, as a member of the delegation of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, took part in an official visit to Tashkent (Uzbekistan), during which the 8th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission on Bilateral Cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Uzbekistan was held.

Sam Houston State University, United States of America and Francisk Skorina Gomel State University have been cooperating since 2018.

The third stage of the second season of the «Educational Robotics Cup» competition took place on the basis of the Faculty of Physics and Information Technologies of the Skorina State University on March 6. The Educational Robotics Cup is a series of tournaments that are held in various cities of the Republic of Belarus. The goal of the Cup is to popularize and promote the development of robotics in Belarus.

University rankings are a modern tool for integrating a university into the global educational space. Webometrics , one of the largest international rankings of higher education institutions, was updated at the end of January. This time the rating was compiled according to a new method: previously, universities were assessed according to four indicators, and now - according to three. The main assessment criteria are the presence of the university on the Internet and the citation of scientific publications.

As a part of preparation for the introductory school practice using ICT of the third year students in an educational institution GEORG-VON-LANGEN-SCHULE (Holzminden , Germany) the first online meeting took place at the Faculty of Foreign Languages on February 26.

On February 25, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology and Pedagogy Vladislav Beizerov took part in a regular meeting of the national group of experts on higher education reform, chaired by First Deputy Minister of Education Irina Starovoitova. The event was organized by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus and the National Office of the Erasmus + Program in the Republic of Belarus.

The 200th anniversary of the birth of the writer, publicist, thinker Fyodor Dostoevsky will be celebrated in 2021. This event is of great importance for the entire cultural community.

On February 25, the Faculty of Foreign Languages of F. Skorina GSU congratulated their  partners from the L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University on the 25th anniversary of the founding of the university. At the invitation of their Kazakh colleagues, teachers of the Department of Theory and Practice of the English Language and the Department of Romance and Germanic Philology took part in the International Scientific and Practical Conference «Foreign Language Education: Content and Technologies for Training Higher School Specialists».