On October 16, 2023, Vice-Rector for International Relations and Organizational and Legal Work of Vitebsk State Medical University Denis Nikolaevich Lits has taken part in the ninth meeting of the Scientific and Educational Consortium of Higher Educational Establishments and Research Institutes of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Republic of Belarus in online mode. At the meeting, reports were heard on the issues of modernization of university science: tasks and priorities of integration cooperation.