The final of the Open Olympiad in the field of world economy was held on December 6 at the Belarusian State University. In total, 74 applications were submitted for participation in the event from student teams of Belarusian and Russian universities. Only 20 teams were selected for onsite qualifying round for getting into the final, including representatives of the Belarusian-Russian University, the Belarusian State University, the Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President, the Belarus State Economic University, the Belarusian National Technical University, Brest State Technical University, Vitebsk State Technological University, Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Francisk Skorina Gomel State University, Sukhoi State Technical University of Gomel, I.G.Petrovsky Bryansk State University, L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Lomonosov Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg University of Economics, Pskov State University and P.G. Demidov Yaroslavl State University.
The Belarusian-Russian team members were Vladislav Grigoriev, Natalia Yazubets, Angelina Gribanova, Anastasia Zakharevskaya.
Nine finalists were selected on December 5 following the results of the onsite qualifying round. In the final, the Belarusian-Russian team competed with master’s students of Lomonosov Moscow State University, students of the Faculty of International Relations of the Belarusian State University, St. Petersburg State University, the Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarus State Economic University, the Belarusian National Technical University and Yaroslavl State University. The Belarusian-Russian University students demonstrated deep knowledge of the world economy, international economic relations, investments, venture financing, management and marketing, the economy of foreign countries, the organization of financial markets, microeconomics and macroeconomics. As a result the team was awarded the semi-finalist certificate of the International Olympiad!
Congratulations to the students and their supervisor, Head of the Department of Economics and Management!