The 8th July 2017 was the starting date of the 14th Annual Summer School, which is held in the format of an educational field camp, open for school and university students as well as scientists, journalists and everyone who seeks to grasp the unexplored horizons of knowledge.

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The Summer School was initiated in 2004 and today is one of the largest educational non-profit projects, which comprises nearly 30 workshops attracting participants from all over Russia and abroad. Famous researchers, scientists, journalists, designers and faculty members of the leading Russian universities, including MSU, MIPT, MEPhI, MIREA, RSUH, the Higher School of Economics and the University «Dubna» are invited as lectors. Among them are professors and associate professors of the JINR-based Departments.

This year JINR has planned an eventful programme for School participants, which will involve all the JINR laboratories and a variety of School workshops such as “AstroGeo” (planetology workshop), “BiO”, «Data Science», “Chemistry workshop”, “Education”, “Science & Journalism School” (and its subset “Science communications”).

The programme includes excursions to JINR laboratories, on-site lectures of young talented scientists on a wide range of topics, such as: synthesis of new elements and configuration of accelerators, study of cosmic rays, the HybriLIT heterogeneous computing cluster and neural networks, neutron tomography and radiography, biomonitoring by means of neutron activation analysis, the effects of radiation on organisms and radiation hardness tests of materials as well as interactive educational formats for children and adults.

Two workshops have already visited JINR as part of an excursion, these are «Data Science» and “Science & Journalism School”.

Furthermore, specialists from JINR will perform physical experiments in the final part of the School, including experiments with liquid hydrogen that will acquaint school participants with unusual features of usual things.

School participants live in a tent camp on the bank of the Volga river and are responsible for its arrangement and for food. The School also offers an extensive entertainment programme: concerts, holiday celebrations, photo exhibitions, film screenings and open presentations of workshops’ assignments. In 2016, for its unconventional approach to education, the Summer School was listed as one of the finalists for the Prize of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation “Commitment to science”.