Today, on 8 December, the Young Scientists Congress started at the Sirius Art and Science Park in Sochi. The main results of the Year of Science and Technology in Russia are being summarised. A delegation of 10 young scientists presented all seven scientific laboratories of the Joint Institute is taking part in the event. JINR Director Academician Grigory Trubnikov is a participant in two topical tracks of the Congress.

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Grigory Trubnikov is a speaker at panel sessions “Career in Science: formal position or actual leadership?” and “Development of human capital in science-driven territories”. Taking part in discussions about what a career in science is, a position or recognition, JINR Director highlighted, “I believe that recognition is the main thing. It should come first. The working process at scientific laboratories supposes more horizontal cooperation than vertical. It means a project that you want to fulfil should be reasonable. If you cannot explain and defend what you want to do, it will be difficult to win recognition from colleagues.” For those listeners who see an impulse of being a team leader in themselves, Grigory Trubnikov wished to be ambitious but not arrogant.

Grigory Trubnikov focused the attention of the audience on the fact that it is crucial for a scientist to work in a good scientific team supervised by an open-minded leader. He also highlighted that a research principle maintained by a scientific team should be international and JINR complies with this rule by uniting representatives of 63 countries of the world as its employees and partners.

Photo by Vitaly Timkiv / Photohosting of Young Scientists Congress

As part of the Congress programme, on 9 December, Head of the Sector of Neutron Activation Analysis and Applied Research of the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics JINR Inga Zinicovscaia will participate in a panel discussion “Big Science at School: how schoolchildren can contribute to the scientific and technological development of the country” organized by the All-Russian competition “Big Break”.

The agenda of the final day of the Congress, on 10 December, includes a session devoted to the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development declared by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 2 December. The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research is one of the organizers of the Year.

Leading scientists, managers and science organizers, key figures in science and education, journalists, public figures, as well as heads of science-driven enterprises participate in the congress.