On December 22, an open dialogue took place in the conference hall of Gomel State University, the main topic of which was youth self-government. The chief specialist of the Department for Youth Affairs of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus Sergey Aleksandrovich Shmarlovsky, Deputy Head of the Military Recruitment Department of the Military Commissariat of the city of Gomel Major Nikolai Mikhailovich Zvezdkin and assistant of the department of history of the Slavs and special historical disciplines Pavel Leonidovich Zhdanovich.

An online lecture was held by Professor of the University of Palermo Maria Luisa Saladino at the Faculty of Physics and Information Technologies. It was dedicated to the implementation of a joint international project within the framework of the European Union CEI (KEP) 1206.008-19 "Non-destructive multi-analytical methods of research of Old Believers' icons of the Vetka Museum" (head of the project from the Belarusian side is Vladimir Gaishun, Head of the Department of Optics, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences).

On November 12, an online lecture by Professor of New York City University Sergei Viktorovich Samsonov (New York University (NYU), Research Technology Services, Artificial intelligence technical lead, PhD in Physics (The City University of New York, CUNY) took place in the conference hall of Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. The topic of the lecture was "Introduction to programming in the R language" (as part of the discipline "Information technology in biological research").

Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Department of Informatics and Information Management of the Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova (AESM) of the city of Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, Head of the Information Security Laboratory Sergey Antonovich Okhrimenko held  an online lecture on the topic "Shadow digital economy" on November 12. 

In the context of academic cooperation between the law faculties of Belarus and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute (Sweden), a meeting of the steering committee was held. The director Morten Kjaerum, the head of the Eastern European department of the Swedish agency for international development cooperation Christina Denielson, and the representatives of higher educational institutions of the Republic of Belarus took part in the meeting. There were discussed the issues of the current state of activities in the field of international cooperation and preliminary results for 2020.

Anna Shevtsova, Student of the Year - 2020 of F. Skorina Gomel State University, and Alina Borodulina, secretary of the primary organization of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union, took part in the youth forum “The future belongs to us” on October 29-31 in Mogilev. The program of this large-scale event included content analysis on social networks, seminars on successful cases and creatives making, audience engagement and design of stories and feeds for the target audience, rallying trainings, team assignments, master classes and much more.

Undergraduates and students of F. Skorina Gomel State University took part in the International Symposium "Student Readings - 2020", which was launched in Romania.

The organizer of the symposium is L. Ye. Bezhenaru, professor of the Department of Slavic Studies at the Jassy Alexandru Ioan Cuza University. The symposium brought together the universities of Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, Romania and Ukraine.

First Deputy Minister of Education Irina Starovoitova paid a working visit to the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. Irina Anatolyevna discussed a number of topical issues with the student body of the university  in the format of an open dialogue, which was also attended by First Vice-Rector Andrey Kruk and Vice-Rector for Educational Work Yuri Nikityuk. There were discussed such topics as the pros and cons of distance learning using information and communication technologies.