The IX Annual Conference of Silk Road Agricultural Education and Research Innovation Alliance was held in Tashkent, 9-12 July. The event was attended by more than 200 representatives of the Alliance's member agricultural universities from China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Serbia and other countries.

Timiryazevka scientists set up an experimental installation with a flow-through water activator and proposed a mathematical model of water activation. The conducted research made it possible to evaluate rational parameters and operating modes that provide the required hydrogen indicators –catholytes or anolytes. The work was carried out as part of the Priority 2030 Strategic Academic Leadership Program and its results were reported in a scientific article indexed in the Scopus database.

Cooperation between Timiryazev Academy and Xinjiang Agricultural University has reached a new level. Rectors Vladimir I. Trukhachev and Jiang Ping'an agreed to develop joint curricula of training programmes for students and academic exchanges for teaching staff. Research cooperation will be facilitated by the establishment of an international cooperation laboratory involving both universities.

Yulia Dudina, postgraduate student, assistant of Biotechnology Department, Agrobiotechnology Institute, successfully presented the University at "Best Scientific Project-2024" contest among scientific and educational institutions of the CIS countries. The young scientist was awarded the First Degree Diploma and a medal "For Contribution to the Development of Science and Education".