1 December is the World AIDS Day, which aims to attract the global awareness about HIV and demonstrate the international solidarity in the face of the pandemic.

The quarter-final game of the medical schools’ open KVN tournament was held under the slogan "How we managed to reach such a life." It was participated by the very same 10 teams from Vitebsk, Minsk, Grodno, Gomel, Smolensk and Ryazan, who played in the 1/8 finals.

The Global entrepreneurship week took place in Belarus on 14-20 November in which the innovative entrepreneurship contest was held participated by young and talented business people offering their projects. Authors of social projects were able to offer their ideas in this contest as well. The main requirement was to use modern IT-technologies to implement these ideas. 31 teams trying to do their best to present their project competed in this event.

In the framework of the II International Forum "Innovative entrepreneurship of Vitebsk region "From small to great" an intellectual contest "How to sell an elephant?" was held. Seven teams from different institutions of higher and secondary education of Vitebsk participated in it.

XVI International scientific-practical conference of students and young scientists "Student medical science of XXI century" was held on 2-3 November 2016. The conference was attended by 1370 students and young scientists from Vitebsk State Medical University, Belarusian State Medical University, GomSMU, GrSMU and also from universities of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Smolensk, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Samara, Ryazan, Tver, Ufa, Cheboksary) and Ukraine (Kiev, Kharkov).