The multidisciplinary forum Brazil–JINR is being held on 15-19 June 2015; the forum is devoted to research in the fields of nuclear physics, particle physics and condensed matter physics. This is the goal of a representative delegation of scientists from leading universities and research centers of Brazil which came to Dubna. The programme of the Forum includes plenary sessions with keynote report as well as local conferences in JINR laboratories. Excursions to basic facilities of VBLHEP, FLNR, FLNP and DLNP will be organized for the guests; a Round Table Discussion will be held on the last day of the Forum, where the final declaration with proposals on cooperation and the possibility of associated membership of Brazil in JINR will be signed. JINR Director Academician V.A. Matveev noted in his welcoming speech that the aim of the Forum is to present the major fields of scientific and research activity of JINR, to explain the organization of functioning of the Institute, to share ambitious scientific plans. “The Institute is famous for the outstanding scientists, – reminded Viktor Anatolievich, – such as Nikolai Bogoliubov, Dmitry and Ilya.  Joint Institute for Nuclear Research keeps traditions of our great predecessors and does its best to be at the edge of the modern science. We hope that one day there will be portraits of the famous Brazilian scientists among these portraits of the prominent scientists from our Member States worked in our Institute… At the Forum, we have about 18 participants representing 14 famous Brazilian universities and institutions, representing 6 states of Brazil. My special pleasure to welcome here the general secretary of the Brazilian Physical Society Professor titular Vanderlei Bagnato and the members of the Commission on Nuclear Physics and Applications Tobias Frederico, Paulo Gomes, Débora Menezes. We are very grateful to them and other Brazilan participants for their support of holding the Forum in Dubna”. The organizing Committee got the message from Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Brazil Antonio Jose Vallim Guerreiro which, in particular, says the following: “The  Embassy of the Federal Republic of Brazil in Moscow cordially welcomes the participants of the Brazil-JINR  Forum «Frontiers in Elementary Particle, Nuclear and Condensed Matter Physics» and wish the Forum to reach its goal,  namely,  to  contribute  to  strengthening the cooperation between  Brazilian  researchers  and  the  Joint Institute for Nuclear Research”. Directors of JINR laboratories and interested scientists participated in the ceremonial opening of the Forum and plenary meetings of the first day. In the first half of the day, JINR Vice-Directors M.G. Itkis and R. Lednický presented overview reports on the major directions of JINR scientific research; and co-organizer of the Forum Professor of the Fluminense Federal University Paulo Gomes made a report on directions of research in the fields of nuclear physics and related areas in universities and research organizations of Brazil.