On January 15, 2025, a ceremonial signing of a cooperation agreement between the educational establishment "Vitebsk State Order of Peoples' Friendship Medical University" and the state educational establishment "Vitebsk Gymnasium No. 8" took place.
The document was signed by the VSMU Rector Alexey Nikolaevich Chukanov and Gymnasium No. 8 Director Igor Aleksandrovich Shelopukho.
The subject of the agreement is cooperation between the University and the Gymnasium to achieve common goals of improving the quality of education, implementing interaction, exchanging experience, organizing career guidance work with Gymnasium students, and holding joint scientific and educational events.
As VSMU Rector Alexey Chukanov noted: "Career guidance work is necessary so that the students learn more about their future specialty and the conditions in which they will study. This process is mutually beneficial for both the gymnasium and the university, because career guidance work is one of the most important for forming the right prerequisites in students, and in-depth training will expand the horizons of knowledge in those subjects that are leading at VSMU." Currently, VSMU has prepared and concluded cooperation agreements with general secondary educational establishments in the cities of Vitebsk, Mogilev, Orsha, Mozyr, Polotsk, Novopolotsk, Gorodok, Chausy, Postavy and others.