Within the scientific event, over 200 participants from Russia and Belarus discussed the past and present of limnology, a science studying the lakes and other freshwater reservoirs.

From October 11 - 13, Vladislav Donchenko, Chief Researcher, and Alyona Kodolova, Acting Deputy Director for Research of SRCES RAS – SPC RAS, took part in the meetings of the Expert Council on Ecology and Environmental Management at IPA CIS, the Standing Commission of the IPA CIS on Agrarian Policy, Natural Resources and Ecology, as well as the International Forum "Sustainable Development of Mountain Territories".

Presentations were delivered in regard to group management, optimization of the consumption of energy resources of robots, educational robotics, vision systems, application of the theory of proactive management, planning of collective actions in human-machine communities, as well as neural network prediction of the behavior of biological objects. The best practices of the journal "Informatics and Automation" were discussed at a round table concerning problems of publishing Russian journals, organized by the Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences on Robotics and Mechatronics.

Within the collective stand of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation at the AGRORUS exhibition, the SPC RAS staff members Marina Astapova, Jan Puhalsky presented an agrobox prototype with a function for determining a growth stage of lettuce based on machine vision and neural networks., Research results received based on the collected data corpus showed that the segmentation of lettuce plants using the NDVI index allows for identifying such characteristics of seed lettuce as the square occupied by plants, the height of an individual plant, the number of plants with the accuracy of up to 95%.

At SPIEF-2023 the Committee for Environmental Management of St. Petersburg and the city division of the Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences reached an agreement on the environmental well-being of water bodies. The above was reported by the press service of the city Committee

Major objective of the ADOP conference, organized by SPC RAS, is to consolidate interdisciplinary knowledge in agriculture, biology, robotics, information technologies and economics to solve urgent problems of digitalization of organic animal husbandry and crop production based on the advancements of basic science and best practices of agricultural companies.

Research team of the laboratory of autonomous robotic systems presented various modifications for a ground-based robotic platform, like GD-4 UAV designed to solve problems in the agricultural sector of the economy, a set of specialized sensor bracelets, and also a drone for playing football.

Workshop took place on March 14 at the premises of SPC RAS, in the already familiar hybrid format; three presentations were delivered, versatilely highlighting the problem under discussion and approaches to its solving.

This year's conference was organized by Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) and the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS, St. Petersburg) together with Fuzhou University (Fuzhou, China), Gaitech Intelligence (Zoucheng, China), Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press (Shanghai, China) and Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technologies (Maoming, China). Honorary Chairmen of the conference were Hongqiao, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Igor Kalyaev, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The conference was held as a hybrid one: online and full-time participation in Gurugram, New Delhi, India. SPECOM-2022 was organized and hosted by the Indian group of KIIT colleges in cooperation with SPC RAS (co–chaired by the SPC RAS Chief Researcher Professor A.A. Karpov). India appeared to be the 10th country where SPECOM was held, and same time the first Asian country in the conference’s history.