The NICA project is one of the top mega-science projects in Russia

    The session of the Committee of Plenipotentiaries of JINR Member States (18) was held on 25-26 March 2015 in Dubna with participation of representatives of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), as well as two of the six Associate Members of JINR who join the Institute on the basis of the Agreements signed on the governmental level - Germany and South Africa.

   The Joint Institute for Nuclear Research is one of the priorities of the RF Ministry of Education and Science, - said in his speech at the session the representative of the Russian Government in JINR, Deputy RF Minister of Education and Science Alexander Povalko. - The Institute has a glorious history and, of course, excellent prospects. Our goal is to ensure all opportunities for implementation of tasks that the JINR Directorate and JINR scientists set.

     Cooperation between the two research institutions - CERN and JINR has been lasting for decades, - said in her commentary Professor Agnieszka Zalewski (Poland), the Chairman of the CERN Council. - It has become a tradition, and the reciprocal granting of the Observer Status by CERN and JINR was its natural development. There is no doubt that the contacts between our institutions will continue to develop, because they are based on scientific cooperation, mutual interest of physicists in activities which are conducted in Geneva and Dubna.

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