On 29 February 2016, a video conference “Joint Institute for Nuclear Research: NICA collider, the most important discoveries of the recent years” was organized for Moscow school students from schools NoNo.1392, 2073, 2075, 1788, 1391, and 2083.

JINR was represented by the following specialists: Stanislav Pakulyak (UC), Artem Galimov (VBLHEP), Alexei Guskov (LNP), Alexei Zhemchugov (DLNP), Oksana Koval (BLTP), and Igor Pelevanyuk (LIT).

The programme of the event included a video tour of the CMS detector, CERN -2016, question and answer session, as well as an overview of the science popularization programmes intended for school students.