On October 25, 2023, the VIII Forum of Youth Scientific Communities, organized by the Council of Young Scientists of the University, was held in the conference hall of the morphological building of VSMU. The event was attended by guests from the universities of the Vitebsk region and BSMU. During the meeting, scientific and pedagogical schools and the potential of the university’s scientific work were presented, issues of using 3D printing, IT technologies and genetic-statistical and bioinformatics methods in teaching students and scientific research were discussed. In addition, the results of inter-university cooperation were summed up, and directions for further work were outlined.