In Belarus, the priority areas for research for 2016-2020 were approved by resolution No. 190 of 12 March. The document was published on the National Legal Internet portal and entered into force.

According to the Order, the List priority areas Ecology, environmental management, energy, chemical synthesis and products, biological systems and technologies, medicine and pharmaceuticals, informatics and space research, electronics and photonics, machine systems and complexes, multifunctional materials and technologies, agro-industrial complex and food security. They also include society and the economy, interdisciplinary research, human security, society and the State.