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Belarus, IBRD sign €100m loan agreement to upgrade higher education
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MINSK, 23 June (BelTA) – Belarus and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) have signed a €100-million loan agreement to implement the project to upgrade Belarus’ higher education, BelTA learned from the press center of the Belarusian Education Ministry.
In line with the agreement, Belarus will receive a €100-million loan in 2020-2025. The funds will be used to create a modern educational environment in higher education institutions, introduce innovative approaches and technologies in teaching, stimulate the transformation process in administration, and ensure high-quality education.
Plans are in place to set up an interdisciplinary research center at Belarusian State University featuring 37 training laboratories and nine collective use centers. The project also provides for upgrading more than 60 training research laboratories, overhauling some university buildings, creating the necessary infrastructure for the new laboratories, and improving energy efficiency. “These activities will be implemented at 18 higher education institutions (including in ten regional ones) affiliated with the Education Ministry, the Transport and Communications Ministry, the Agriculture and Food Ministry, and the Healthcare Ministry,” the press center said. Belarus will also establish a national agency for ensuring high quality of education at all levels.
“The implementation of the project will help create an integrated and innovative educational environment in Belarusian universities that will enable to train skilled specialists and offer new promising majors (bioengineering, nanochemistry, synthetic and systems biology, pharmacology, bioinformatics, biomechanics, phenomics, genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and so on),” the press center of the Education Ministry noted. Belarus also expects to step up cooperation between educational institutions and increase educational services export. “The new infrastructure will support the introduction of the University 3.0 model, work out and commercialize new interdisciplinary knowledge-based solutions, set up innovative companies at universities and register them with technoparks,” the press center added.
The loan agreement was signed by Belarus Education Minister Igor Karpenko and Alex Kremer, World Bank Acting Country Manager for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine (the region of Europe and Central Asia), head of the World Bank's Country Office in Belarus.
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