Global Capacity-Building Workshop on Operationalizing Access and Benefit-Sharing National Frameworks under the Nagoya Protocol
The Lead Software Engineer of the National Coordination Centre on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, the Institute of Genetics and Cytology, NAS of Belarus, Ms. Irina Dubinina, upon recommendation of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus, took part in the Global Capacity-Building Workshop on Operationalizing Access and Benefit-Sharing National Frameworks under the Nagoya Protocol. The workshop was organized by the Secretariat of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the ABS Clearing-House and was hosted from 30 September to 3 October in Bonn, Germany.
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WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) Summer School
On June 4, 2024, the employees of the Institute of Genetics and Cytology, NAS of Belarus, took part in the work of WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) Summer School
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Safeguarding of Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources and Legal Regulation of Access to It – the main topic of the Round Tables held on 5-6 December 2023 under the UNESCO Participation Programme for 2022-2023“Capacity Building for the Safeguarding of Traditional Knowledge Associated with Genetic Resources and Legal Regulation of Access to It in the Republic of Belarus.”
The project is implemented by the National Coordination Centre on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing, the Institute of Genetics and Cytology, NAS of Belarus (ABS NCC), and the Centre for the Belarusian Culture, Language and Literature Research, NAS of Belarus. The topics of Round Tables: Traditional knowledge associated with genetic resources – knowledge regarding […]
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The Department of Folkloristics and the Culture of Slavic Peoples and the Institute of Genetics and Cytology held a joint scientific and practical workshop “Wormwood, Bitter Grass: Traditional Knowledge and Contemporary Youth Projects”
The event brought together the scientists of various profiles and representatives of creative professions who actively use traditional knowledge related to the plant kingdom. In the introductory speech, the workshop organizer, Head of the Department of Folkloristics and Culture of Slavic Peoples, Tatsiana Valodzina, explained the understanding of the term “traditional knowledge”, its role and […]
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ABS NCC took part in 5th International Scientific Conference “Genetics and Biotechnology of the 21st Century: Challenges, Achievements, and Prospects”
November 21-25, 2022 the Institute of Genetics and Cytology, NAS of Belarus, hosts the 5th International Scientific Conference “Genetics and Biotechnology of the 21st Century: Challenges, Achievements, and Prospects” marking the 135th Anniversary of an outstanding scientist ― botanist, geneticist, geographer, plant breeder, the founder of the world collection of cultivated plants, Academician Nikolai I. Vavilov.
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Employees of the National Coordination Centre on Access to Genetic Resources and Benefit-sharing took part in the workshop on Biosafety
On October 21, 2022, the National Coordination Biosafety Centre held a workshop on the results of the preparation of the Fourth National Report to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety.
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PRESS RELEASE
UN Biodiversity Convention to host series of webinars prior to the resumed sessions of its two subsidiary
bodies and working group on post-2020 global biodiversity framework