Meridians of cooperation

JINR - Kazakhstan: confident partnership and huge potential

On 24 – 26 March, a delegation of the Republic of Kazakhstan visited the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research headed by Vice Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (RK) Gulzat Kobenova.

The delegation included Plenipotentiary Representative of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan in JINR, Director General of the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan for Atomic Energy (INP RSE) Sayabek Sakhiev, Vice President of the National Academy of Sciences under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Askar Dzhumadildaev, Director of the Astana Branch of INP Daryn Borgekov and Director of the Department of Strategic and Sustainable Development of INP Adilzhan Serikov.

At the meeting with Directorate of the Institute, the topic of discussion was the training of highly qualified personnel for the Republic of Kazakhstan, plans for the implementation of a project of a high-intensity source of ultracold neutrons on the VVR-K research reactor at INP RSE and the participation of Kazakhstani colleagues in the work of the International Scientific Editorial Council of the peer-reviewed JINR journal Natural Science Review.

Gulzat Kobenova expressed confidence that JINR-Kazakhstan partnership that has a rich 70-year history, possesses a huge potential for further development. She said that human capital is at present at the forefront in Kazakhstan. In recent years, funding for science in the Republic of Kazakhstan has tripled, the number of educational grants has doubled. Vice Minister highlighted that Dubna's experience will be useful in the Republic, where it is planned to found science cities and science-intensive territories that will become centres of attraction for investments and technologies. Askar Dzhumadildaev emphasized the multidisciplinarity of JINR research and expressed his intention to send students from Kazakhstan not only in the specialty "Nuclear Physics", but also in others, in particular, in computational mathematics.

JINR Press Office