1. ENT Flagship 2015 Call Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains Kick-off event 13 th of May 2015

2. Natallia Yankevich National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Chief of the Department of Innovation and Production Activities of the General Unit of Scientific, Research, Innovation and Production Activities of the Apparatus of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus e-mail: lab_12@tut.by, yns@presidium.bas-net.by www.nasb.gov.bylab_12@tut.byyns@presidium.bas-net.by

3. Aims and roles of National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in national governance system The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is the highest state scientific organization of the Republic of Belarus The National Academy of Sciences is reported to the President of the Republic of Belarus, accountable to the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus. National Academy of Sciences of Belarus was founded in October 1928 under the name of the Belarussian Academy of Sciences. Today the staff of the Academy of Sciences includes more than 18,000 researchers, technicians and supporting personnel. There are more than 6,000 researchers, 511 Doctors of Sciences and about 2,000 Candidates of Sciences among them

4. The National Academy of Belarus has the following main objectives:  the scientific support of the economic, social, legal and state development of the Republic of Belarus, its culture, the protection and rational use of nature;  the organization, performing and coordination of the fundamental and applied scientific research and developments in the most important directions of natural, technical, humanitarian, social sciences;  the determination and submission for the approval in the established by legislation order the lists of the priority directions of the fundamental and applied scientific research of the Republic of Belarus;  the submission in accordance with established procedure proposals for funding of scientific and innovation activities in the Republic of Belarus due to the means of the republican budget and other centralized sources, etc.

5. We are interested in participation in the following Call domains: Organisational innovations and new business models in logistics Information infrastructure and services for logistics Contact person: Natallia Yankevich Tel.: +375 29 3417442 E-mail: lab_12@tut.by,lab_12@tut.by yns@presidium.bas-net.by