On 9-11 November 2011 a JINR delegation participated in a workshop on nanotechnologies and materials organized by the International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) and the Department of science and technology of the RSA Government in Pretoria.

JINR participants presented scientific works on the topics of the workshop, which are being held in JINR in the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, the Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, the Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics and in the Multi-access centre «Nanobiophotonics». In the frames of the visit JINR representatives held seminars at the University of Pretoria, the University of South Africa (UNISA, Pretoria), the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU, Port Elizabeth), the cyclotron laboratory iThemba LABS (Cape Town). A visit to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was held in the frames of the workshop.