On 14 November, ahead of the session of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries, Director of the Joint Institute Grigory Trubnikov met with Rector of Belarusian State University (BSU) Andrei Karol at the BSU. The parties discussed the prospects of joint scientific projects and a double degree programme. In order to implement the prospects for further cooperation and specificy joint work plans, working meetings between JINR representatives and the deans of the BSU faculties are set to take place in the near future.

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The session covered a wide range of issues, including training highly qualified specialists for large-scale nuclear physics projects . A joint bachelor’s and master’s degree double diplomas programme is considered as one of the promising solutions. As Grigory Trubnikov noted, the Joint Institute has a rich and successful experience in implementing such programmes with universities in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

Special attention was paid to applied nuclear physics projects for biomedicine, information technology, and agro-industrial complex. In addition, the parties focused on issues of international scientific cooperation prospects and the development of scientific infrastructure in Minsk and Dubna. Andrei Karol stressed the importance of involving students in joint research for them to gain practical experience and develop professional competencies.

In the near future, it is planned to hold a working meeting of the JINR representatives with the BSU faculty deans to discuss further plans for bilateral cooperation advancement.

The partnership between the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and the Belarusian State University has a long history. Graduates of the BSU Faculty of Physics have played a key role in the development of the Institute since its foundation.

The Institute of Nuclear Problems of BSU (INP BSU) currently coordinates the scientific and organizational partnership of Belarusian organizations with JINR, contributing to the steady growth of exports to the Belarusian scientific centre. Belarus‘ participation in the NICA Megascience Project includes the supply of specialised electronics, the precision machining of metal blanks for a magnetic system, the engineering of superconducting resonators and discharge detectors, and the creation and supply of a cooling and thermal stabilisation system for the TPC and ECal detectors of the MPD (Multi-Purpose Detector) Experimental Facility.

Based on the materials of the Belarusian State University