On October 31, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. The Vitebsk State Technological University and Nicolaus Copernicus University (Poland) will expand partnership relations based on a cooperation agreement, the signing of which took place following the international scientific and practical conference in Vitebsk. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent at the Department of Management of the Vitebsk university. The signing of the document provides an opportunity to intensify interaction in conducting joint research, exchanging information, educational and methodological literature, and developing academic contacts between students and faculty. The agreement opens up new opportunities for cooperation in training scientific personnel, joint publication of monographs and textbooks, and holding joint conferences and seminars. The partnership between the Vitebsk and Polish universities has become a successful example of how a cooperation agreement between the Department of Management of VSTU and the Department of European Integration of the Polish university has grown into partnership relations between the universities as a whole, specialists noted. The international scientific and practical conference "Socio-economic Development of Organizations and Regions of Belarus: Goals, Priorities, Mechanisms of Structural Transformations" brought together on October 27-28 at the Vitebsk Technological University specialists from 35 leading research centers and higher education institutions of Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Uzbekistan, and Belarus. This year, the traditional economic scientific forum was dedicated to considering the goals, priorities, and mechanisms of structural transformations in the economy, and developing effective tools for overcoming the difficult situation in the socio-economic development of Belarus. Representatives of the scientific community discussed strategic issues of scientific, technological, and innovative development, as well as related new regulatory models, analyzed the features and consequences of the global financial and economic crisis for countries, regions, and enterprises, and related issues of modernizing national economies. The reports of the participants of the scientific forum were devoted to the innovative development of organizations and investment support for innovations, regional economic policy and interregional cooperation, and increasing the competitiveness of enterprises and regions in the new conditions.