In November, International Youth Science Forum “Litteris et Artibus” (https://openreviewhub.org/lea) took place in Lviv, Ukraine. This forum has been held for the ninth time on a regular annual basis. Lviv is a center of Ukrainian Science at western Ukraine, has a more than 120k students community at 23 universities and IT-engineering cluster with about 40k of engineers. This years, 200+ speakers and 700+ attendees were registered at the Forum, and a lot of them came from other countries.

The scope of the Forum covers such topics as Computer Science & Engineering, Electric Power Engineering & Control Systems, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science & Transport, etc.. One of SRK's missions in Ukraine is to stimulate youth to join science and technology. Taking into account the above context, SRK became a sponsor of the 9th International Youth Science Forum “Litteris et Artibus”. Forum was co-organized by Lviv Polytechnic National University (Ukraine), Young Scientists Council at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, Association of Ukrainian PhDs, PhD Students Board of Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), Foundation Manus (Poland), Foundation for Young Scientists (Poland).

 Oleksii Foia and Oleksandr Striamets – SRK representatives at the International Youth Science Forum “Litteris et Artibus”.
Also at Forum were several panel discussions about importance of open innovation and transparency in Academia implementation. Researchers from different countries (Republic of Austria, The Netherlands, Slovak Republic, Republic of Poland, Republic of India, and other) agreed that only the principle of all stakeholders, constant experience exchange, and common efforts for science promotion could engage the best young Ukrainian minds into the science.

«Our big goal is to promote science in Ukraine. We would like to stimulate investment in innovation and start-ups. For this purpose we need more publications, patents, “stars” of this field in Ukrainian universities and companies. And such kind of forums plays a great role and stimulates communication between universities, young scientists, and companies», said Olga Radyvonenko, who is the Lab leader at SRK, and who was one of the keynote speaker at the Forum. Participants of the Forum met her speech about innovative features in Handwriting Recognition Solution (HWR) for Samsung Note 10 and Samsung Tab S6 with great interest.

Samsung’s HWR has proven its status as the world-best handwriting recognition solution at ICDAR-2019 (International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Sydney, Australia) and UIST-2019 (User Interface Software and Technology Symposium, New Orleans, USA). Also Olga introduced Samsung Research and SRK to the participants in order to arouse interest in young people to join SRK professional team. 

Olga Radyvonenko, Lab leader at SRK gives the keynote speech at the Forum about innovative features in Handwriting Recognition Solution for Samsung Note 10 and Samsung Tab S6.
This Forum was an opportunity to hear about the latest developments of young scientists in the field, that SRK interested in. Moreover, it was an occasion to share the information about the possibilities of cooperation between young scientist and SRK. For example, SRK could become a place for student’s internship. In addition, students could study on the Dual Master Program, which SRK had launched for the first time in Ukraine in cooperation with Ukrainian universities.